Life & Love

Six of the last top 10 Vietnamese songs on TikTok were remixes, a trend that has become popular but is repetitive, trite and uncreative to some. With its short-clip format, people can use catchy tunes to create soundtracks for personal videos and slingshot an old or new song into virality …

Bao Minh, 30, frequently experienced pain following sex reassignment surgery, but she could not find a suitable clinic to check. She had the surgery in early 2016 after being born a male. She need care after the surgery in terms of hygiene and hormonal drugs, but there was no healthcare …

Two members of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK wore outfits from Vietnamese brand Fanci Club of designer Duy Tran in the music video for “Pink Venom.” After the four-member group BLACKPINK made a comeback with their “Pink Venom” music video on Aug. 19, Duy Tran said on Instagram that Jisoo had …

Films co-produced with foreign studios have repeatedly flopped at the local box office. Vietnamese studios collaborate regularly with foreign companies albeit the number of movies released every year is small. This year there have been three and they have ranged from unsuccessful to utter flops. Most recently “La May Tren …

Four major cinema chains, CGV, BHD, Galaxy and Lotte, have asked the government to amend regulations and allow them to screen movies after midnight. Screenings are now allowed only between 8 a.m. and midnight, with violations attracting fines of up to VND10 million ($427). According to the cinema chains, this …

When Thu Huong messaged her husband asking for VND1 million ($42.73) to pay their child’s school fees, she was taken aback to see he had transferred VND10 million. The 42-year-old in Hanoi’s Nam Tu Liem District had a reason to be surprised: her husband does not usually keep so much …

Hanoi artist Do Thuy Trang, 23, is well known for turning heads with her intricate and mind-bending makeup.     Hanoi artist creates trippy optical illusions using makeup Hanoi artist creates trippy optical illusions using makeup

South Korean budget carrier Air Premia plans to make a foray into the Vietnamese market with a regular service between Seoul and Ho Chi Minh City starting October. The first flight is scheduled to take off on October 6 and there would be four weekly flights, the carrier said on …

Vietnam’s Tan Son Nhat is one of eight international airports with the lowest flight cancellation rates this summer at less than 0.3 percent, according to FlightAware. The other seven airports are Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi, the Philippines’s Ninoy Aquino, Singapore’s Changi, Turkey’s Sabiha Gökçen, Brazil’s Sao Paulo-Guarulhos, Qatar’s Hamad and South Korea’s …

HCMC has fined Miss Universe Vietnam’s organizing committee VND70 million ($2,990) for allowing a judge to walk the red carpet wearing a see-through ao dai that revealed her breast patch. The Saigon Universe Joint Stock Company, the owner of Miss Universe Vietnam, was administratively sanctioned by the Ho Chi Minh …