Life & Love

Tran Vu Mai, 16, was 16 weeks pregnant when she suffered from a uterine perforation and abdominal bleeding following an abortion at a private clinic. She was recently admitted to the National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Hanoi in critical condition. Dr Phan Chi Thanh of the hospital’s department …

Le Vu Thao Nguyen is 1.55 m tall and weighs 58 kg, and falls within what doctors describe as a “normal” body mass index range of 18-25. But people around the 24-year-old, who is admittedly at the higher end of the range, call her “sumo.” Nguyen, who used to love …

The skyrocketing prices of gasoline, food and other necessities are squeezing many Vietnamese-American households and leaving a big dent in their wallets. Truong Ngoc Thu Thuy of California used to buy whatever she wanted without giving much thought to prices. She was “shocked” to see a bottle of fish sauce …

Nguyen Thi Thanh Nha has become the first Vietnamese woman to climb the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest, a Nepal-based mountain climbing tour agency has confirmed. On Monday morning, Seven Summit Treks, a company that organizes climbing expeditions over all mountains above 8,000 m in Nepal, China and Pakistan announced …

Every day Huynh Minh Dang wakes up at 5 a.m. for a brief meeting with his colleagues in North America, but then pretty much works in his own time. He first goes out for a five-kilometer jog, returns home to work for an hour or two and then has some …

Stylish beauty queens were obviously of the same mind when spotted rocking the exact same see-through dress at different events. Le Thanh Hoa’s gold knitted, see-through dress caught the eye of model Vo Hoang Yen and many other beauty queens. Yen opted for a curly hairstyle to accompany the dress …

Low-cost airline Vietjet plans to fly from Hanoi to Nagoya and Fukuoka in Japan while Bamboo Airways will increase the frequency of its flights to Thailand and Singapore. Vietjet Air announced the Hanoi-Fukuoka service would begin on July 2 with three weekly flights and the Hanoi-Fukuoka service start a day …

When the value of his cryptocurrency assets plummeted by 30 percent overnight Nguyen Dai decided to delete the trading app. “The first thing I used to do after waking up was to open my crypto wallet and check how much money I gained or lost,” the Hanoi-based cryptocurrency trader says. …

It has been three days since Thong Nguyen stepped out of his apartment in India, which is in the grip of a heatwave with temperatures rising up to 45 degrees Celsius. He said: “This is horrible. I always leave the air conditioner on and limit heading out as much as …

Hanoi has decided to offer free tickets to double decker bus tours of the capital city to athletes, coaches and international reporters attending the 31st SEA Games. The tickets will be valid until late this month. The bus tours which run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily take visitors …