Life & Love

Hoa Minzy’s new viral music video “Thi Mau” has prompted TikTok trends in which users play the song in their videos and recreate the main character’s look. The song “Thi Mau” is based on a female character of the same name in the narrative poem “Quan Am Thi Kinh”, a …

A Hong Kong dog has become an online sensation after a video of the pampered pooch on a business class flight from Hong Kong to Istanbul went viral. In the video, the miniature long-haired dachshund named Fifi is seen snuggled under blankets. British owner Helen Rosalie, who adopted the miniature …

The Ministry of Public Security has proposed prolonging the duration of e-visas granted to foreigners entering Vietnam from 30 days to a maximum of three months to help tourism recover. The e-visa will be valid for single-entry or multiple entries, according to a draft amendment to The Law on Entry, …

A Patek Philippe watch owned by the last emperor of China’s Qing dynasty will come to auction later this year. Based on similar sales in the past, it could very easily gavel for a price in the seven figures, according to The South China Morning Post. Aisin-Gioro Puyi, crowned in …

With your friends and family, let’s enjoy this weekend (and happy St. Patrick’s Day!) with a wide range of events in Saigon, from photo exhibits and movie screenings to royal Indian cuisine. Photographs by Thomas Billhardt Thomas Billhardt is one of the most prominent German documentary photographers in the world. …

The 2017 Miss Universe Vietnam H’Hen Nie attracted attention when she wore a crown made from coffee berries for the coffee festival in her hometown, Buon Ma Thuot. As the media ambassador for the Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival, which took place March 10-14 in Dak Lak Province, H’Hen Nie’s …

I’m a 54-year-old Vietnamese living abroad who recently married a 36-year-old woman. We met 4 years ago when I was traveling in Vietnam. Before Covid, I used to visit Vietnam twice a year. I dated my wife for a year before proposing. We had only met each other twice while …

Three times a day on average, whenever Hanoi street vendor Han Le gets wind of an approaching police patrol, she quickly deconstructs and hides her sidewalk shop beside West Lake. After about an hour of hiding all her tables and chairs in her house, Han, the owner of a 20-year-old …

The PARKROYAL Saigon Hotel confirmed that it has dismissed a staff member who posted negative comments online about K-pop mega boyband Super Junior. “We have just been that a staff member posted on his personal Facebook page a very unprofessional and negative comment regarding the K-pop group Super Junior, who …

Tieghan Gerard, a popular food blogger known as Half Baked Harvest, has faced backlash for misunderstanding and misrepresenting Vietnamese cuisine in a recipe she posted on Instagram. Gerard, who currently has 5.2 million Instagram followers, uploaded the video “25 Minute Banh Mi Rice Bowls” on the platform Tuesday. In the …