Picnicking at night on new boulevard in Ho Chi Minh City
Tin Tổng Hợp 18:44 05/12/2014Lacking parks and open space for relaxing in a natural environment, residents in Ho Chi Minh City, mostly young people, have recently selected the newly-built Mai Chi Tho Boulevard in District 2 as a ‘rendezvous’ for going for a picnic every night
In photos: The wretched lives of migrant construction workers in Ho Chi Minh City
Tin Tổng Hợp 19:12 27/11/2014Many construction workers at a resettlement housing project in District 2 - one area in Ho Chi Minh City where new buildings keep mushrooming - live and work in poor conditions
Vietnam woman helps farmers produce organic rice
Tin Tổng Hợp 17:50 25/11/2014A female master’s degree holder in agriculture has worked hard to turn her long-cherished dream of producing organic rice into reality and helped farmers in her hometown successfully adopt the model
Thousands of pine trees poisoned to death in central Vietnam
Tin Tổng Hợp 17:54 24/11/2014Vietnamese police are investigating a case in which thousands of pine trees in a Central Highlands province have been destroyed with chemicals since 2013 by unidentified people who want to illegally turn forestland into residential land.
Young graduate dedicated to helping autistic children
Tin Tổng Hợp 17:24 14/11/2014A young man is devoted to helping parents of autistic children better relate and communicate with them as part of innovative therapies
Flight attendants in Vietnam: Love in the air
Tin Tổng Hợp 17:09 13/11/2014Flights have helped air hostesses and their male colleagues and regular passengers become couples, but they have also led husbands and wives to being separated thanks to the distance and lack of time
Vietnamese engineer builds low-cost 3D printer
Tin Tổng Hợp 11:34 12/11/2014A Vietnamese doctorate holder has been working on his project to build a low-cost 3D printer in the past three years
Vietnam’s first steam locomotive brought back to life
Tin Tổng Hợp 11:31 12/11/2014A team of engineers and workers in the southern province of Binh Duong late last month completed their lengthy, painstaking restoration of a steam locomotive which will soon be tapped into for tourism
Vietnam seeking money for costly plan to bring separated gayals home
Tin Tổng Hợp 18:33 07/11/2014Around 20 wild gayals divided into two herds are ‘locked’ in the forests of the southern province of Binh Phuoc and unable to return ‘home’ to neighboring Dong Nai Province because the forest area in between the provinces has been chopped down for the planting of rubber trees
Elderly philanthropists promote traffic safety, teach disabled kids
Tin Tổng Hợp 12:10 06/11/2014A 69-year-old man and an 82-year-old woman have devoted their time and money to raising students’ awareness of traffic safety and teaching physically and mentally challenged kids for free for almost 20 years
When fishermen go to the mountains in the ‘season of migration’
Tin Tổng Hợp 19:54 29/10/2014The ‘season of difficult seas,’ as it is known to fishermen in the central region, is reminiscent of a legendary Vietnamese tale
In photos: Meet the Vietnam women clearing unexploded ordnance
Tin Tổng Hợp 17:59 27/10/2014It often seems that dangerous jobs are aimed at men, but eight Vietnamese women in the central province of Quang Tri dare to perform some of the world’s most risky work: clearing unexploded ordnance or UXOs
