Life & Love

Sixteen child models are set to open this year’s Thailand Fashion Week, strutting down the runway with outfits featuring Vietnamese cultural heritages. At the invitation of the President of Thailand Fashion Week, designer Le Tran Dac Ngoc has been tasked with opening Thailand Fashion Week 2022, taking place in Bangkok …

Vietnam has climbed up 39 spots in the 2021 global quality of life index by CEOWORLD, the world’s leading business and trade magazine. Vietnam earned a score of 78.49 to rank 62 out of 165 countries and territories included in 2021 World’s Best Countries For Quality of Life recently released, …

Phu Dien Tower in Thua Thien-Hue Province was named “the world’s first excavated and preserved ancient brick Cham tower deep under coastal sand dunes” by World Records Union on Monday. Built by the Cham people to worship Hindu gods, the ruined tower is one of the earliest remaining Cham brick …

Australia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong tried ‘pho ga’ (chicken noodle soup) at a restaurant in Hanoi during her first visit to Vietnam since she took office. Australian Ambassador to Vietnam Robyn Mudie shared her favorite pho ga with Foreign Minister Wong and chef Sam Tran during the minister’s visit …

In outfits created by Phuong Ho, nearly 100 professional and child models catwalked on Bach Dang Wharf in downtown Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday. Child and professional models strode the runway, a pier more than 120 meters long, last Sunday, while wearing designs from different collections created by Ho. …

Low-cost carrier Vietjet Air plans to launch seven new routes from Da Nang to Singapore, India and South Korea next month as the pace of tourism picks up. There would be four to seven weekly flights on each route — to Singapore, South Korea’s Busan and India’s New Delhi, Mumbai, …

Nguyen Thu Trang has been going to the supermarket late at night for the last month knowing meat and vegetables are cheaper then. The Hanoi housewife of four years knows however they will not be as fresh as earlier in the day. “Since the prices of everything have gone up, …

A painting of the Red River by the late Le Van De has fetched a bid of EUR220,000 ($232,346), excluding taxes and fees), at the Millon auction house in Paris. The oil on canvas painting by De, a graduate of the former prestigious Indochina College of Fine Arts, outdid other …

A jade bowl owned by Tu Duc, the fourth king of Vietnam’s last royal dynasty, has been sold for EUR845,000 (US$892,000) at an auction in Paris. Showcased as part of a collection owned by the late Queen Nam Phuong, the wife of the Nguyen Dynasty’s 13th and last king, Bao …

Vietnam is the only Southeast Asian country that has reopened international tourism without any Covid restrictions, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) said. Its Destination Tracker tool showed that 52 countries have fully reopened their borders to foreign tourists as of June 17 and Vietnam is one of only four in …