Life & Love

The 4th International Guitar Festival and Competition to be held in Hanoi from November 18 to 20 will feature concerts by a number of local and foreign artists. The overseas contingent will include Thailand’s Nutavut Ratanakarn, South Korea’s Lee Song Ou and Honam Ji, Japan’s Kozo Tate, and Sweden’s Johannes …

HCMC-Los Angeles is ranked second on a list of world’s 10 largest unserved air routes with 90,031 passengers a year after Quito-New York (90,693), global aviation analysis firm OAG reported. Airline routes with the largest volume of people traveling indirectly between the two points are called unserved routes. London-Kathmandu was …

Foreign air passenger numbers through 22 Vietnamese airports in October fell 61.8% against pre-pandemic levels to 1.3 million amid slow international tourism recovery. There was a total of 7.2 million air passengers in October, down 23.3% against October 2019, according to statistics from the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam. Domestic …

Nguyen Van Hoa, 45, has several mutant orchids that were worth a few billion dong just two years ago but unsellable now. Once “equivalent to a family’s entire savings,” they are still kept in a secure iron cage equipped with a camera at Hoa’s home in Hanoi. “Two years ago …

Vietnamese students in the U.S. dependent on their families for money are hurting because of the strong dollar. The appreciation of the dollar means a decrease in the amount of money Pham Huu Nghia’s parents send him each month to pay for his education at Northern Virginia Community College in …

The 6th Hanoi International Film Festival will showcase 123 films from 50 countries and territories between Nov. 8-12. Vi Kien Thanh, director of the Cinema Department, said the jury will narrow the selection down to 11 feature-length and 20 short films for nominations. The organizers have not announced the jury …

Many foreigners tried catching fish by hand in Hoang Su Phi’s terraced fields, a community-based tourism activity that rose to popularity in recent years.     Western tourists try catching fish in Vietnam terraced fields Western tourists tried catching fish in terraced fields

American DJ duo The Chainsmokers are slated to appear at the “Refresh Your Music” concert on Dec. 10 in Ho Chi Minh City. The Chainsmokers, formed in 2012 by Alex Pall and Andrew Taggart, won a Grammy for Best Dance Recording in 2017 for their catchy, worldwide hit “Don’t Let …

The phrase “2-3 squids” from a song by rappers Linh Thon and Minh Vu has gone viral among young Vietnamese and across social media. The phrase “2-3 squids” is part of the song “Anh Yeu Em Cuc” (I Love You Much), which started making waves online around late September for …

Vu Thi Dong Hai, 85, took a motorbike taxi to her English class on Kim Nguu Street in Hai Ba Trung District one afternoon in late September. She has been attending the two-hour class on Tuesdays for more than four years. Though she is the oldest student, her hands shake …