Life & Love

Hundreds of stilt houses with roofs made of stone that line up along the Da River are a sight for sore eyes in Dien Bien Province’s Muong Lay town. Muong Lay is situated more than 100 kilometers from Dien Bien Phu Town at the confluence of the Da and Nam …

For buying a home in the U.S., singer Nguyen Hong Nhung had to go through a mountain of paperwork. Other singers Quach Thanh Danh and Duc Tien had to put someone else’s name on the title deeds and pay more than the market price. Three years ago Danh was looking …

Budget airline Vietjet Air has announced plans to resume flights to India’s New Delhi soon and launch new services from Hanoi, HCMC and Phu Quoc this year. The new HCMC-Mumbai service will be launched on June 2 with four flights a week either way while Hanoi-Mumbai flights will start a …

It is 9 p.m. and Nguyen Van Nam walks into the cafe, chooses a spot from where he can observe people, takes out a laptop and begins working. For this 27-year-old sitting and working all night in 24-hour cafes in HCMC has become a habit in the last two years. …

Nguyen Minh Thuy, while on training abroad in 2017, had to list her daily needs and prices for her husband in Vietnam to send money. Her husband, Duc, told her before she left the country: “I will transfer money every day. You just have to list whatever you need to …

After a period of social distancing, when was the last time you sat down for a soulful cocktail with friends and unwound at your favorite bar? Or are you a “cocktail nerd” and on a bar-hopping mission to explore the mixology world? Mastercard and Vietcetera is bringing Vietnam Bar Week …

Tuan Anh goes to the park at 8 p.m. every day regardless of the weather to run and be rewarded in cryptocurrency. The 28-year-old HCMC office worker says he does not have much time to exercise due to the nature of his job. After Covid-19 was controlled he wanted to …

Chick-flick ‘Bay Ngot Ngao’ (Naked Truth) will hit movie theaters in the U.S. starting April 22. The production company says the film will be first distributed across 50 cinemas. ‘Naked Truth’ tells the story of four friends who reunite after a long time, on the wedding anniversary of Camy, a …

Half a month ahead of the Reunification Day and May Day break, most hotels in tourist hotspots are already full and many people are unable to book rooms at this time. Vietnamese people will have four days off for the Reunification Day-Labor Day holiday (April 30 and May 1) as …

Though he had to undergo a 12-hour surgery and severe pain, Tran Dang Phuoc Cuong finally got the transformation he had always wanted. He went to China more than 10 years ago to study interior design after graduating high school. There he applied to work as a dancer in a …