Features
Among Hanoi’s thousands of cafés, the Dem Vong Café has enjoyed an unusual popularity - it’s been the venue for fashion shows by five openly transsexual ‘girls.’
Five members of Pattaya group. In HCM City, transsexuals are no longer uncommon. They often appear at cafes, bars, hairdressing salons and tea-shops. Not...
The global economic crisis has depressed the Vietnamese painting market. Fewer collectors, especially knowledgable collectors, are buying these days.
A painting by Vietnamese artist Tran Luu Hau, collected by NewAsia gallery in Singapore. The late connoisseur Duc Minh (also called Bui Dinh Than) is still well-remembered. As a rich businessman,...
Beautiful Bai Chay Bridge, the most modern suspension bridge in Southeast Asia, is now called the “demonic bridge” because from the day it opened in 2006, many people have chosen it as the site of their suicide.
Bai Chay’s 40 guards patrol it 24/7; it is considered a strategic structure. Their duty is protecting and ensuring traffic flows on...
In the past few years, Quang Nam Province has invested more than VND2 billion to build and repair 76 guol (community houses) of the ethnic minorities Co Tu, Cor, Ca Dong and Gie Trieng in Nam Giang, Tay Giang and Dong Giang districts. LookAtVietnam - The communal house is the pride and joy for Co Tu communities in Quang Nam Province, but the fine art on display...
Phong is photographed with Ta Oi children during a trip to collect pieces of art. â Photos Courtesy of Khanh Phong.LookAtVietnam - Tran Nguyen Khanh Phong may look a little strange as he bicycles around the mountain villages of the Ta Oi people, rummaging through discarded furniture and tools, but he’s actually on a mission to collect and preserve artifacts...
LookAtVietnam - In a bid to show a new side of Vietnamese culture, the Youth Theatre is performing comedies in English. Trung Hieu checks it out.A couple act a scene on stage typically Vietnamese in every way apart from one thing - their troupe are bringing popular theatre to the stage with a difference, their renditions are in English.Their comedy Doi Cuoi (Laughing...
Xoan singing is a famous art of the midland province of Phu Tho. The Culture, Sports and Tourism Ministry has asked the PM for preparing a file to submit to UNESCO for recognition of Xoan singing as a world cultural heritage.
Xoan singing artisan Nguyen Thi Lich.The people in Phu Tho all know that Xoan is folk singing performed in front of communal houses...
VietNamNet Bridge – Close by the high-rise buildings of Saigon South’s Phu My Hung residential district is an oasis that’s nearly isolated from the “civilised” world. Its handful of residents still light their houses with oil lamps, travel by bamboo boats and drink rain water.
Members of the family of “Robinson” Nguyen...
LookAtVietnam – Next to high-rise buildings of Phu My Hung residential area in HCM City, there is an “oasis” which stands nearly isolated from the “civilised” world. Local residents still light their houses with oil lamps, travel by bamboo boats, drink rain water and don’t use modern facilities.
Members of the family of “Robinson”...
Hong hangs out with him every Sunday, meets his friends, listens to his tales of happiness and woe, and even cooks for him sometimes if he wants, but they never make love.
Many single, professional men in Ho Chi Minh City want a comely, sympathetic female compansion at the weekendThe garment factory worker is an occasional escort who gets paid VND300,000-500,000...
