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The event took place earlier this week at the Ho Guom Opera House in Hanoi to kick off Ao Dai Week (March 1-8), during which all women are encouraged to wear ao dai to celebrate International Women’s Day (March 8). The event took place earlier this week at the Ho Guom Opera House in Hanoi to kick off Ao Dai Week (March 1-8). Photo: VOV The show also features nearly 200 artists, models, and dancers, according to Hanoitimes. The highlight of the catwalk is Trinh Hoai Nam’s collection entitled Heritage of Five Countries, presented by Indira Gumarova, wife of the Czech Ambassador, who walked in ao dai inspired by Slavic ceramic motifs. She said that she had a lot of fun in this dress because there is no outfit like Ao Dai in the Czech Republic. Five wives of foreign ambassadors attend the event donning the traditional Vietnamese Ao Dai. Photo: VOV “I am a person who loves traditional values, especially fashion products. I think fashion is always connected to peop...

Local authorities held a ceremony on February 2 to receive the certificate from Vietkings and to inaugurate the road. The flower-red ceramic road stretches from the Welcome Gate to the Administrative Building of the Provincial People’s Committee. Photo: VOV The 700m long and 200m wide road showcases more than 2,000 ceramic products created by dozens of businesses throughout the province. The 700m long and 200m wide road showcases more than 2,000 ceramic products created by ceramic kilns in Vinh Long. Photo: VOV Nguyen Thi Quyen Thanh, vice chairman of the Vinh Long Provincial People’s Committee, said the ceremony is also to honor the centenary of Vinh Long ceramic village which is home to nearly 1,500 kilns. Vinh Long: Discover The Longest Flower-Ceramic Road In Vietnam Vinh Long’s products are famous throughout the region for their distinctive characteristics which are as solid as stone and boast a nice color of red. The red ceramic products have b...

The Vietnamese Consulate General in Perth, in collaboration with the Australian Vietnamese Family Association (AVFA) and artists and artisans from Ho Chi Minh City, organized an event in Palmerston City on March 2 to promote Vietnamese culture during the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival, according to VNA. The large-scale event was attended by many Australian officials, Vietnamese people, and foreign friends in Northern Australia. International friends showcasing their calligraphy works. Photo: AVFA The event not only served as a gathering place and spread the festive atmosphere of the new spring to the Vietnamese community during Tet but also provided new cultural experiences to international friends in Northern Australia through various activities and traditional games. It aimed to promote mutual understanding and ensure that the younger generation of Vietnamese-Australians do not forget their roots. The event showcased the art of tea drinking, calligraphy, traditional “a...

As part of activities to celebrate 50 years of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Japan, BRG Group, non-profit organisation Be-Japon, and the Japanese Embassy in Vietnam will co-host a special cultural exchange event in the form of a kimono-ao dai fashion show, staged by fashion designer Kobayashi Eiko at InterContinental Hanoi Westlake. “Japan and Vietnam not only have a special political trust relationship but also have generational exchanges between the two countries, in which the exchange of the young generation from the two countries is increasing. I think that the understanding and empathy between people and people are the foundation for Japan-Vietnam exchanges that are developing strongly and rapidly like currently,” says Yamada Takio, Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam. “I hope that the fashion show will create audiences the opportunities to explore the similarities in traditional costumes and aesthetic conceptions of the two countries, as well as feel the potential t...

The trophy tour, which will include more countries than ever before, will spend time in all the 32 participating nations in the elite tournament slated for this July and August. Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Morocco, Ireland, Switzerland, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Zambia will receive the hardware for the first time ever. Before stopping in Vietnam, it will first go to Japan on February 25 and 26, followed by a one-day pit stop in South Korea on February 27 and two days in the Philippines on March 2 and 3. Wellington in New Zealand is slated to be the trophy’s last stop on July 12-14 before the competition. The trophy tour also includes visits to three other countries, whose qualification for the Women’s World Cup will be decided at a play-off tournament later this month. The dates will be added afterward. The Vietnamese women’s football team are currently in intensive preparation for their maiden stint in the FIFA Women’s World Cup. Vietnam are in Group E with...

According to the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF)’s timetable, March will be filled with the U20 Vietnamese team’s participation in the final round of the 2023 AFC U20 Asia Cup from March 1 to 18, the first call-up of Vietnam U23s to prepare for the 2023 Southeast Asian Games from May 5 to 17, the 2023 National Cup (whose date has yet to be decided), and FIFA Days (dates that can be used for ‘official’ and ‘friendly’ men’s international matches). This timetable means that teams competing in the 2023 V-League 1, which is scheduled to take place every weekend from February 3 to August 20, will have to unwillingly let their players take two long breaks from late February to early April and from mid April to mid May. These interruptions are set against the arrangements of club coaches, who worry about players’ bad club performances. “I’ve talked a lot about this since 2017 but the situation continues and clubs have no choice but to adapt to it,” said Nguyen Duc Thang, coach o...

Better suited to families with teens (those still willing to holiday with the old folks), Vietnam makes an excellent budget destination. Hanoi is a lot of fun to explore, even for younger kids, with attractions like the Temple of Literature, water puppet dances or just wandering and nibbling on street food. Photo: Getty Images Ho Chi Minh City offers another level of culture and history; the Mekong Delta is a riot of colours and sounds with its floating markets; Nha Trang is blessed with sandy beaches and calm waves for island hopping, scuba diving, boarding and waterskiing. While Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and the other major centres are intriguing enough, it’s Vietnam’s striking landscape that most impresses. Rugged mountains hug the west, bordering Cambodia and Laos; to the east lies the South China Sea – or the East Sea, as the Vietnamese call it. To the north and south, the land fantails out into the splendid deltas of the Red River and the Mekong, and it’s in these re...

Photo: Tienphong.vn Around the end of December to March, the vast rubber forests in Huong Khe district, Ha Tinh province undergo many changes. Photo: Tienphong.vn To come here, visitors can travel on Ho Chi Minh Road, National Highway 15. They will have the opportunity to see the image of beautiful and dreamy rubber leaves. Photo: Tienphong.vn Huong Khe district is considered as the rubber-growing capital of Ha Tinh province with more than 6,400 hectares. Rubber here grows thick and large. When the season changes, the leaves turn yellow and red. Photo: Tienphong.vn The rubber tree is native to the Amazon forest, in South America. In the Maina dialect, “ouchouk” is the name for the rubber tree, which also means tears of the tree. Following in the footsteps of the French, rubber trees came to Vietnam in the late 19th century and quickly became the main industrial tree. Because of the large area, the green leaves on the branches do not immedi...

Vishnu K Nair and his wife (right), went on a 23-day trip to Vietnam in November 2022, along with two friends. Photo: Deccan Herald The article said people who have made multiple trips to the more popular travel destinations — Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, and Malaysia— are now looking at Vietnam. “To many, Vietnam is still unexplored territory. It is also an easy travel experience for Indians, with its visa on arrival option,” says Karthik Marathe, who runs Nesara Tours in Nagarabhavi. “In the past six months, I have been getting 60-70 bookings to Vietnam every month. Before that, there used to be only one to two bookings a month from Bengaluru,” he says. Groups of four to eight are making the trip. Deccan Herald quoted Rajiv Mehrotra, executive director of Holiday Concierge, as sayings that on a weekly average his company receives 10 to 12 enquiries from customers seeking Vietnamese destinations. He added that November to April is the best time to visit Vietnam as ...