Hanoi plans to phase out inner-city burials at cemeteries
Vietnam News 15:12 15/05/2026Authorities in Hanoi will gradually close and end traditional burial activities at cemeteries located in urban development areas, converting them into memorial parks under the Vietnamese capital’s newly approved master plan with a 100-year vision.
Ho Chi Minh City completes 1st school on former cemetery site
Economy 15:31 21/04/2026After nearly a year of construction, an elementary school in Binh Hung Hoa Ward, Ho Chi Minh City has been completed on land that once housed the former Binh Hung Hoa cemetery.
Impoverished Filipinos forge a life among the tombstones
World 15:21 01/11/2025In teeming Manila, where poverty runs deep and millions lack adequate shelter, some of the living have found refuge among the dead.
North-central Vietnamese province relocates graveyard to handle landslide
Vietnam News 13:17 22/03/2021The relocation was prompted by a landslide that had happened in January
Vietnamese man writes 18,000 letters to help families find graves of fallen soldiers
In-Depth 15:00 01/08/2019Nguyen Tien Xuan, 81, has spent more than a decade helping 336 families find the final resting sites of the family members they lost during the American war in Vietnam
Goodbye, again: Vietnam's reburials send souls on final journey
Travel 19:03 01/02/2019The ceremony is one of Vietnam's most sacred death rituals, an ancient custom usually carried out before Tet
Vietnamese firm builds concrete-mixing facility in cemetery
Vietnam News 23:04 26/10/2018Authorities allowed the facility to exist for nearly a year, explaining that it is provisionally used for local public constructions
$62mn cemetery for senior Vietnamese officials to be built in Hanoi
Vietnam News 20:01 02/02/2018The new burial ground’s size is equal to about one hundred standard football fields
Deceased people quietly buried in Ho Chi Minh City residential areas
In-Depth 10:51 07/05/2015Instead of performing solemn burial rites, a number of residents in Ho Chi Minh City choose to discreetly bury their deceased relatives around their homes in residential areas, which vexes their neighbors and poses worrying health hazards
Man creates Vietnam maps with soil from martyrs’ cemeteries
Travel 16:54 26/07/2014A local artisan on Friday showcased his three maps created with the soil fetched from war veteran cemeteries in 63 cities and provinces the country over.
