Life & Love

Tran Thi Van, an eatery owner in Hanoi, is struggling to even pay rent after cooking gas prices skyrocketed. Managing three big woks in the kitchen at her stall in Cau Giay District last Friday, the 33-year-old says: “Each meal now only generates a few thousand dongs (VND1,000 = $0.04) …

During the past week Nguyen Hoang Nam has been struggling to meet order deadlines as every day 15 employees contract Covid-19. “Around 40 percent out of my 200 employees have been infected,” the director of an auto parts manufacturing company in Hanoi’s Dong Anh District said. He said he is …

Canadian travel site The Travel has listed Con Dao Islands and Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park among ’10 stunning destinations in Asia that few people know.’ Con Dao, once the site of American and French prisons during the wars, is now a peaceful beach paradise with coral reefs and emerald …

Nguyen Thi Hoa, 37, ran away after having to work 20 hours a day for three months without getting paid and almost being abused by her employer in Thailand. In 2006, her husband went abroad to work for a company in Malaysia, but faced problems and returned home empty-handed. He …

Khanh Hoa, home to the famous beach towns of Nha Trang and Cam Ranh, has set a target of welcoming 40,000 foreign tourists this year. The central province has said it would focus in particular on high-spending tourism markets. Nguyen Thi Le Thanh, director of the provincial Department of Tourism, …

American actress Kerry Washington sported an outfit by Vietnamese designer Cong Tri on the cover of Time magazine’s 12 “Women of the Year” issue. The wavy outfit hails from Tri’s 2022 Spring-Summer collection, with long taffeta sleeves and skinny pants. Tri said the beige, wavy design is reminiscent of musical …

American singer Camila Cabello on Thursday shared a photo of Vietnamese women harvesting water lilies in Mekong Delta province Long An on her Instagram Story. The star re-posted the photo published on Atmos, an American magazine about climate and culture. The caption for the original post on Atmos’s Instagram stated: …

An exhibition showcasing the intersection of skateboarding and street art to be held in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday will the first of its kind in Asia. The opening ceremony of ‘Spraying Board Vietnam’ at the Institute of Cultural Exchange with France (Idecaf) in District 1 will be at …

Recent Vietnamese movie releases have surprised viewers with unusually audacious scenes of sex and violence; observers say censors are being more open minded. “I’ve never seen such scenes in Vietnamese movies before,” said Huynh Chau, 25, who lives in HCMC’s Tan Binh District. He was speaking after watching director Dinh …

The online literature platform from Singapore announced the start of an unprecedented writing contest, “Love Story”, on Feb. 15. The contest features $219,000 in prizes with the first being $60,000, which marks the highest prize pool for a serial web fiction contest ever. The writing contest accepts submissions of love …