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Culture
There’s a scene in The Sound of Music , where Julie Andrews gazes into the future on a stormy night and envisions something holy: play clothes. She wraps herself in her bedroom curtains, a stuffy cream and sage brocade. Play clothes, she seems to resolve, that’s what the Von Trapp children need, their austere father just having interrupted their song and dance.
Postcards
Who is better at the art of chilling on a motorbike than the xe ôm?
Hanoi
After September 6, 10 districts in the city's center with the highest risk of COVID-19 infection will continue with strict Directive 16 lockdown until September 21.
Quãng 8
Making their debut in the midst of the pandemic with a cryptically named album, Whee! offers listeners a down-to-earth and prismatic experience that draws from the musicians' harmonic bond.
Saigon
Today, thousands of students across Saigon officially began a new school year at home.
Film & TV
How much history are you aware of?
Music & Arts
What is Hanoi to you? Is it the mesmerizing old architecture, the thousand-year legacy, the usual traffic craze, or a warm bowl of phở in the morning?
Food Culture
Vietnam's supply is said to be free of the pesticide that warranted the ban.
Music & Arts
“Even though they know deeply that it’s beautiful, they cannot feel it because it’s not familiar to them,” Duy Trần says of younger generations that gaze upon the traditional wood sculptures in his family’s factory.
Saigon
In an effort to ease pressures on ward officials, Saigon authorities have allowed shippers to resume operation from today, albeit with some caveats.
Natural Selection
Disney’s Aladdin , Super Nintendo, digital fingerprint technology: the outside world was familiar with all these by 1992. Sao la , however, remained unknown.
Ton-sur-Ton
How much thought do you put into socks?
Food Culture
Growing up in the 1990s, many Saigoneers must have gotten used to the sight of Triệu Thị Chơi’s name embossed in the author position of many cookbooks.
Health
As the coronavirus makes its way across Saigon and Vietnam, maternity care has become a particularly serious issue as more and more pregnant residents are getting infected.
Vietnam
It's been an eventful visit to Hanoi for United States Vice President Kamala Harris.
Education
As the impacts of climate change become ever-harder to ignore, it’s important to remember that some solutions exist close to home.
Culture
After copious exchanges with friends from abroad, Tô Quốc Nghị had a flash of realization: just like his friends’ countries, Vietnam has always had a wicked awesome history, but the dull, uninspiring textbook lessons have misled people into thinking it’s not. Then comes Đại Việt Kỳ Nhân, an art project that aims to retell Vietnam’s glorious past through illustrations and a board game inspired by the country’s heroic figures.
Music & Arts
There are certain things that we tend to take for granted in life. A standard routine, moments of simple contentment, and that one cơm tấm lady who’s always been at that street corner whenever you reach home at 6pm. We wallow in regret when they are taken away; yearning for past memories and usual comforts.
Asia
The global pandemic has undone decades of economic improvement in some nations.
Health
Aside from buying COVID-19 vaccines from elsewhere in the world, Vietnam is also trying to create its own version, with the hope of reaching herd immunity as soon as possible.
Film & TV
Come 2022, fans of the variety show Paris by Night will miss the dulcet tones and witty banter from its veteran host Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn.
Health
The vaccines will arrive from Cuba between now and the end of the year.
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