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Environment
Lacking an effective official scheme, Hanoi relies on an army of informal workers to recycle its waste — a situation that hasn't changed over the last four decades.
Music & Arts
As fans of Vietnam’s busiest city, graphic designers An Nguyễn and Học Nguyễn launched a mock communication campaign to create prospective visual branding for the upcoming Ho Chi Minh City Metro. The vibrant project celebrates the city’s many identities through the crossover between its different lifebloods — namely traffic, food, architecture and people.
![[Photos] A Non-Traditional Residence Inspired by Traditional Village Homes](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/2022/03/03/house/1h.webp)
Architecture
With dedicated spaces for yoga and various exercises, the Red Cave's color and structure stand out amid the tube houses and international-style mansions in Saigon.
Literature
Why pencils are yellow; the connections between the aviation industry, a centuries-old Central American ballgame and sex; the “true” color of goldfish; the reason we never see Buddha peeing; and the genre-bending decision best-selling novelist Kim Thúy made for her recent book: my conversation with Thúy spun wildly in different directions for over three hours.
Vietnam
It joins the ever-growing list of tourist attractions widely panned by the internet.
Hanoi
After months in temporary custody at an ecotourism complex, eight rescued tigers in Nghệ An will resettle in the Hanoi Zoo.
Tech
The Tumbler — the Batmobile in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight — has been recreated by 23-year-old artist and architect Nguyễn Đắc Chung and his team at Macro Studios .
Natural Selection
While Saigoneer ’s Natural Selection series has already covered a number of iconic species and types of animals, including the tiger , Asian elephant , dogs and cats , there’s a good chance most of the people reading this haven’t heard of today’s critter.
Saigon
Two years ago, three districts in Saigon were merged to become Thủ Đức City, Saigon’s first municipal city. Experts and city officials are deliberating a decision to give Củ Chi District a similar upgrade.
Music & Arts
Have you ever sent a letter and thought "I wish there was some coffee in this envelope?"
Saigon Hẻm Gems
Bánh canh, at times described as Vietnamese udon or even “mouse-tail noodles,” is a great mystery on its own. Etymologically speaking, bánh canh translates to “soup-cake,” and these thick, cylindrical noodles made with tapioca and rice flour of varying ratios do invoke a sense of cognitive dissonance.
Saigon Hẻm Gems
How would you feel if everything about your favorite spot suddenly changed one day? Would the same attachment still stand? Those were the questions that popped into my head the afternoon I paid my visit to cafe Nhà Phạm’s new home.
Quãng 8
When Linh Ha hosts Xom Nhac, Hanoi Social Club’s regular live music showcase, her electronic instruments, all sleek plastic and snaking black wires, lie on top of a silky floral scarf. The scarf is spread in front of her on the floor, where she sits throughout her performance, level with the audience. Everyone can see the precise motions — a button pressed here, a pedal held there, a shaker up to the microphone, and Linh Ha’s careful, clear singing — that produce the ethereal music we’re hearing.
![[Photos] Inside a Vaccination Point in Vietnam Nearly 100 Years Ago](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/2022/02/23/oldphotos/p4m.webp)
Vietnam
A century ago, the colonial government was active in inoculating Vietnamese citizens against a variety of diseases.
Ẽplain
Vtubers have been taking the global streaming industry by storm for several years now, with millions of fans that span the globe, even in Vietnam. Yet despite this obvious popularity, local Vtubers catering to a Vietnamese audience are only a recent phenomenon.
Saigon
The 110-year-old market will receive a new tiled roof, as well as infrastructure and gate upgrades.
Development
A group of American investors expressed interests in to building a Disneyland in Saigon, a Universal Studios in Hanoi and a SeaWorld in Khánh Hòa Province.
Vietnam
Over the past few days, Vietnam has consistently reported new records in the total number of daily COVID-19 cases, signaling a possible upcoming wave of infections.
Saigon Hẻm Gems
Unlike a normal human, there is a chance that my body is not 70% water, but 70% curry; and a good 50% of that might actually be Japanese curry.
Vietnam
It follows a 2021 deal in which the United States leased land in Hanoi for a new embassy.
![[Photos] Once Upon a Time in Bát Tràng Ceramic Village](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/urbanisthanoi/article-images/2021/11/24/bat-trang/ceramic12h.webp)
Vietnam
Back in the day, when Emperor Lý Thái Tổ relocated the capital from Ninh Binh to Hanoi, five famous pottery families followed. They settled in a region on the east bank of the Red River where there was good clay, and founded the Bat Trang ceramic village.
Music & Arts
Hanoi-based punk group Sirens of Ha Long released a new album last month. They have pledged 50% of the Febuary sales to Hanoi Rock City, a venue they describe as having "given Sirens countless memories we’ll cherish till the day we find our watery graves."
Literature
“A collision of literature and art on the pages” is the descriptor that Bar De Force, a Vietnamese independent press, gives itself.
Saigon
The wheels on the (electric) bus go round and round.
