Life & Love

Architect Nguyen Hoang Manh’s Sky House in HCMC has been named among the top winners at the 2021 World Architecture Festival. Manh won the ‘Completed Buildings – House & Villa (Urban/Suburban) award, one of the event’s 33 categories, it was announced this week. Built in 2019 in District 2’s An …

Covid fears, travel restrictions and slimmer budget have made many people in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City choose to visit local attractions and have fun right in their cities. On a Sunday afternoon in December hundreds of people were visiting a canola garden on Nguyen Xien Street, simply unwinding, …

Google Year in Search reveals football and online learning were the top search topics in Vietnam this year. The most searched was ‘Lich Thi Dau Euro’, or matches in the UEFA European Football Championship which was held from mid-June to mid-July when Vietnam had a stay-at-home order after the fourth …

My Anh has just been selected to represent Vietnam at ASEAN – Korea Music Festival 2021 next January. She will perform with artists from Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, and South Korea to promote bonding, cultural exchange and solidarity among countries in the region. My Anh’s photo on ASEAN …

The dystopian South Korean drama series ‘Squid Game’ is the most Googled film this year, along with many other series from South Korea and China. “Tro Choi Con Muc” (Vietnamese title for ‘Squid Game’), which tells a story about contestants in so much debt they end up competing in classic …

Senior musician Phu Quang, 72, passed away in Hanoi Wednesday morning, after battling diabetes complications for nearly two years. Trinh Anh Thu, Quang’s wife confirmed the news, saying the musician had been seriously ill since mid-2020. He had been on a ventilator and stayed within a sterile room. Born in …

Vietnamese living in South Africa said their lives have not been upended by the new Covid-19 variant over which many countries have imposed travel bans. When Le Manh Hieu was having breakfast in his apartment in Pretoria, South Africa, on Dec. 2, he received a call from his friend in …

Vietnam has entered dramedy ‘Bo Gia’ (Dad, I’m Sorry) in the Best Foreign Film category for the 94th Academy Awards. ‘Bo Gia’ will go up against 93 other entries from all over the world. The jury will short list five entries for nominations. The film tells the story of Ba …

Many Vietnamese who study abroad return home to discover that in the local job market they are not the cat’s whiskers they had thought themselves to be. Like other Vietnamese students who graduate from foreign colleges, Nhat Cuong, 24, of HCMC’s District 7 had high expectations when he returned to …

A Vietnamese short film and two directors won awards at the 32nd Singapore International Film Festival. Truong Minh Quy’s “The Men Who Wait” was awarded the Best Southeast Asian Short Film at the festival held Sunday. The jury remarked that the film “beautifully draws us in where the superimposition of …