Life & Love

The number of foreign arrivals to Vietnam in the first quarter of this year jumped 89.1 percent year-on-year to 91,000 as international flights and inbound tourism resumed. Arrivals from Asian countries surged 37.5 percent year-on-year to 58,495, accounting for over half of total foreign arrivals in the first three months …

Vietnamese-American actress Kelly Marie Tran donned a green ao dai on the Oscars 2022 red carpet in California, the U.S. Tran appeared at the 94th Academy Awards ceremony on Monday in an ao dai and khan dong (Vietnam’s traditional attires) designed by Thai Nguyen. Kelly Marie Tran (R) and Director …

Vietnamese share tips, tricks and roadmaps to achieve financial independence to be able to retire early, which seems to be the new mantra. Nguyen Van Huynh, 50, and his wife decided to start their early retirement at the beginning of this year. The couple living in HCMC’s District 12 now …

Not long after recovering from Covid, Quynh Huong started panic buying of drugs due to fear of long-terms health effects. At first the 40-year-old woman in Hanoi’s Cau Giay District was not too concerned, but panic sets in after her friends told her that people with mild Covid symptoms are …

More than 200 pots of rare houseplants worth thousands of dollars collected over several years have been showcased in Ho Chi Minh City. On March 20, more than 200 e plant-enthusiasts gathered on the premises of a coffee shop in Go Vap District for the ‘Xanh Le’ (Super Green) event. …

The Russia-Ukraine war and the resultant closures of Russian and European airspace have hit Vietnamese carriers, who have to make a detour. The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam said on Friday that the alternative routes add to operating costs and travel time. Due to the escalation of the war, many …

Long-standing residents don’t plan on moving out of HCMC apartments said to be on verge of collapse until they receive a better compensation and relocation deal. In early March, the municipal Department of Construction sent a document to the HCMC People’s Committee requesting that 23 households living in the apartment …

My Hanh could not get her prenatal check at the hospital after Shenzhen placed millions of people under a strict lockdown as part of China’s zero-Covid strategy. The Vietnamese woman, who lives in the southern Chinese city’s Yantian District, was to have had her regular check on March 15. After …

A Vietnamese man was rescued from an inflatable boat off Thailand’s west coast Wednesday while rowing alone towards India to see his wife. Similan Islands National Park officials and Third Naval Area Command found him rowing an inflatable boat about 14 kilometers off Similan Islands and about 80 kilometers off …

The second International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Networks (ICSN) was hosted by Swinburne Vietnam on March 19 with the message: “People and technology working together for a better world.” ICISN 2022 received nearly 200 research projects from more than 10 countries: China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, South Korea, …