Beauty pageant holder H’Hen Nie wore a spider web-shaped dress as a vedette for Vietnamese designer Hoang Hai’s latest fashion show in HCMC. H’Hen Nie, a Top 5 Miss Universe 2018 contestant, donned a special dress for the show on Monday. The spider-embroidered fishtail design was made with a thin …
Read More »Netflix to film new movie in Vietnam
Netflix’s upcoming movie, ‘A Tourist’s Guide to Love,’ will be filmed in Vietnam next month, with the participation of international and local stars. According to a Netflix representative, the movie will be filmed in April in five tourist destinations in Vietnam, including Da Nang, Hoi An, Ha Giang, Hanoi, and …
Read More »60 hour odyssey: Vietnamese family escapes from Ukraine
Nguyen Thi Hong’s family fled Kharkiv on March 2, leaving everything that they had worked for 24 years to accumulate. They only took some clothes and walked out of the apartment where they had lived for 15 years late one night. “The apartment was dark since electricity was cut off. …
Read More »Hanoi eateries close amid looming Covid shadow
The surging number of new Covid cases has forced many eateries in Hanoi to shut down or empty out. A pho restaurant on Ly Quoc Su Street has been closed for days. As of Tuesday, Hanoi has recorded 460,203 Covid cases in the current outbreak. The capital keeps logging the …
Read More »Vietnamese family spends 60 hours escaping Ukraine
Nguyen Thi Hong’s family fled Kharkiv on March 2, leaving everything that they’ve worked for 24 years to accumulate. They only took some clothes and walked out of the apartment where they had lived for 15 years late one night. “The apartment was dark since electricity was cut off. When …
Read More »Vietnamese family’s 60-hour flight to safety from Ukraine
Nguyen Thi Hong’s family fled Kharkiv on March 2, leaving everything that they’ve worked for 24 years to accumulate. They only took some clothes and walked out of the apartment where they had lived for 15 years late one night. “The apartment was dark since electricity was cut off. When …
Read More »Covid-infected teachers’ travails in juggling online, offline classes
Nguyen Minh Hanh, a high school chemistry teacher in Hanoi’s Hoang Mai District, was tired and found it difficult to breathe 10 minutes into her lecture. She had to speak softly and slowly in order to be able to breathe. After another 20 minutes she apologized to her students and …
Read More »Emotional reunions as Vietnamese flee Ukraine, reach home
Emotional scenes played out Tuesday morning after a special flight carrying 287 Vietnamese citizens from Ukraine landed at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport. The flight took off at 7:35 p.m. local time (23:35 Hanoi time) on March 7 from the Henri Coandă International Airport in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. …
Read More »Bus driver hands female passengers flowers on Int’l Women’s Day
Le Xuan Huy, driver of bus 86 in Ho Chi Minh City, handed out flowers and gifts to many female passengers to celebrate International Women’s Day (March 8). In addition to flowers, female passengers also received confectioneries, souvenirs and free fares from the 40-year-old bus driver from Tan Phu District. …
Read More »Vietnamese-Ukrainians’ evacuation stories
Phan Thi Minh Hue’s family drove all night to reach the Polish border as they fled Ukraine amid Russia’s assault. Vietnamese-Ukrainians’ evacuation stories Vietnamese-Ukrainians’ evacuation stories
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