Life & Love

With children in urban areas lacking access to decent playgrounds and parks, parents struggle to find safe outdoor spaces for their children to play. When summer began this year Truong Ngoc Quynh Nhu of HCMC’s District 3 was as usual struggling to find a safe place near home for her …

Vietnam Aviation Business Association has suggested opening more direct routes to countries sending a large number of tourists to Vietnam to boost post-pandemic recovery. Pham Viet Dung, chairman of the association, said domestic aviation has fully recovered to pre-pandemic levels while the international market is struggling. Many countries that used …

Many filmmakers are perplexed by the lack of clarity on depicting sex scenes in movies and classifying movies based on viewers’ ages. On August 5 a workshop organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism in Ho Chi Minh City saw questions being raised about age-based censorship in movies. …

Ong Lao Bridge in Tan Phuoc District, Tien Giang Province has been inaugurated by Bridgestone Vietnam in Bridgestone’s “Bridge to Knowledge in Vietnam” project.     Bridgestone Vietnam provides bridge to Tien Giang students Bridgestone Vietnam provides 7th bridge to Tien Giang students – edited Bridgestone Vietnam builds bridges for …

Thu Huong was anxiously waiting all night for her husband to return home as record rainfall battered the South Korean capital Seoul. “Last night’s flooding left everyone stunned,” the 40-year-old in Incheon City told VnExpress about one of the worst floods in decades that swamped Seoul Monday night (local time). …

Two Vietnamese singers, Pham Dinh Thai Ngan and Wren Evans, have been nominated at this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards and Asian TV Awards. The two were nominated after receiving the most fan votes at MTV Fan Choice 2022 earlier this month, with Ngan winning the title “Favorite Artist” and …

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung proposed expanding visa exemption for tourists from the U.S., Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India to boost sector recovery. He also suggested the government consider simplifying immigration procedures to attract foreign tourists as Vietnam reopened after over two years of …

Nguyen Tu of Binh Thuan Province borrowed money from a bank to pay over US$6,200 for virtual shoes in the NFT game WingStep. He said he joined in mid-June, soon as the move-to-earn NFT app was released. He says: “I spent $500 on a pair of shoes. I broke even …

New Hope Club, a popular Gen Z boyband, will hold a free showcase in Ho Chi Minh City on August 23 to promote their upcoming album. According to Universal Music Vietnam, this will be the first time a U.K. music act holds an album promotion in Vietnam. At the event, …

Canada’s The Moffatts and the U.K.’s A1 had withdrawn from a HCMC music show at the last minute citing health problems, disappointing many fans. Both groups were supposed to perform with boyband 911, headlining the “Touch your heart” music show on Sunday night. However, they canceled shortly before the show …