Life & Love

Nguyen Viet Anh was 25 when he told his parents he was gay. They responded by forcing him to see doctors, hoping to “cure” him. The resident of HCMC’s District 5 says he will never forget the day when he came out to them three years ago. “My father got …

The responsibility of caring for Hung, a 30-year-old engineer with mental illness, has taken a financial and psychological toll on all three of his family members. When he was in high school, Hung won first place in a national math contest. He worked for a foreign company after graduating from …

When Ngoc Sen returned home after nearly four hours of cleaning houses, she was taken aback when her daughter who is in sixth grade said “tuition fees could double.” After a year of not raising tuition fees due to the impacts of Covid-19, the Hanoi people’s council passed a resolution …

Tran Van Minh of HCMC says he has “a knack for drinking” and feels “uneasy” if he does not drink for two or three days. The factory worker claims he is not an alcoholic though he goes out drinking several times a week and consumes around a dozen cans of …

Domestic airlines will add more local and international flights to meet surging demand during the summer travel season. Vietnam Airlines Group said it plans to provide 32,400 domestic flights between June and August during the peak summer travel season, up 10 percent against the same period in 2019, the year …

Fashion icon Zendaya wore a jumpsuit by designer Cong Tri beside actress Anne Hathaway in a recent promo video. The actress from ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ recently participated in a video promotion campaign for the famous jewelry brand Bulgari, wearing a black jumpsuit from Cong Tri’s Spring Summer 2022 collection. …

Nguyen Quang Tuan yelled: “Let’s storm the streets!” when footballer Nham Manh Dung scored to help Vietnam successfully defend the SEA Games men’s football gold medal last Sunday. “I must celebrate after Vietnam defeated Thailand 1-0 to win the SEA Games men’s football gold medal,” Tuan, a loyal fan who …

Tuan Khanh of Hanoi’s Ba Dinh District burst into tears when she spoke out about her pressures as a student in the absence of sympathy from her family. Speaking at an open forum titled ‘Dieu Em Muon Noi’ (The Things I Want To Say) held on May 17 at Giang …

Huyen Trang, a shopaholic, realized she needed to do something about her wardrobe, which was stuffed with untidy piles of clothes and full up. But then it would take the 32-year-old in Thanh Xuan District at least a few days to reorganize the mess. The clothes had piled up in …

South Korea had the largest number of visitors to Vietnam during the first four months of this year, followed by the U.S. Vietnam received 192,000 foreign arrivals during the January-April period, up 284 percent against the same period last year, according to a report by the Vietnam National Administration of …