LIFESTYLE

The Hanoitimes - The National Reunification Day holiday waves a magic wand in Hanoi, allowing beautiful peace to reign supreme. National Reunification Day celebrated overseas Hanoi colorful during the national reunification day A quieter Hanoi on the first day of Lunar New Year On the occasion of the National Reunification Day holiday, Hanoi’s noisy life has been replaced with tranquility. Trading activities reduced to minimum. Immigrants returned to their home in outer provinces.   Chua Boc street. Photo: Kinhtedothi.vn The photos capture peaceful moments on Hanoi streets on April 29 during the National Reunification Day holidays. Chua Boc street, which is usually bustling and crowded, remained quiet on the morning of National Reunification Day. On the corner of streets in Hanoi, there are no noisy scenes of usual city life, but you can also see a few people ride motorbike around Hoan Kiem Lake, Trang Thi street. A quiet section on the street of Dien Bien … [Read more...] about Hanoi quiet during National Reunification Day holiday

Born in a family of three children, Mr. Phan Minh Thong was deaf and dumb since birth due to malaria. Seeing people around speaking affectively to their own parents, he often wondered to himself if life was so unfair to him. Not accepting such a grim fate, little Thong went to the Binh Thanh School of Hope for Hearing-impaired People in order to equip himself with adequate skills and knowledge. It is in this special school that Thong was able to find hope for his future. Discovering his talent in arts, Thong spent more time on this subject besides following his regular curriculum of sign language. In 2006, Thong graduated from the Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) University of Fine Arts to finally fulfill his dream. He was the first physically disabled person to receive a bachelor degree in Vietnam. Thanks to his effort, he was granted a scholarship to the Republic of Korea on fine arts. Yet, his new dream of teaching arts to young handicapped people kept him in Vietnam. Despite the low … [Read more...] about Deaf mute teacher eagerly promotes arts among handicapped children

The series, entitled Street Food, was produced by the creators of the hugely popular Netflix series Chef’s Table, and one of the nine episodes on the streaming platform focuses on street food in Ho Chi Minh City, according to the website www.eater.com. The show will focus on the life stories of the street food hawkers of Asia, with episodes set in Japan, Thailand, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and Vietnam. In a trailer for the series that was released on April 11, street food hawkers from across the continent are shown cooking up various local dishes and sharing their inspiring stories of overcoming the hardships inherent with making a living on the street. The Vietnamese episode reportedly focuses on two chefs, one who sells snails and another who cooks pho (noodle soup). The episode will also take a look at com tam (broken rice) and the Vietnamese sandwich banh mi. Street Food will be available to watch on April 26 on the world's leading internet … [Read more...] about Netflix ‘Street Food’ series to include Vietnam episode

Dinh Nguyen Binh, 51, in Tan Phu District, used 4,000 screws to make portrait of President Donald Trump and 3,000 for portrait of leader Kim Jong-un Mr. Binh has hobby to recycle waste items into useful things. His family has business of mechanical, he makes use of screws to make picture and portraits. His father is a painter so he has basic knowledge of painting. So far, he has made tens of pictures of some people like portraits of football coach Park Hang Seo, goalkeeper Dang Van Lam and footballer Nguyen Cong Phuong to celebrate Vietnam’s successful matches. To mark former US President Barack Obama’s visit in 2016, he used plastic bottle cap to make portrait of the President. The remaining pictures are portraits of his idols and family members.Compiled by NHA CA Tags: Mechanician portraits of Trump Kim thousands of screws … [Read more...] about Mechanician makes portraits of Trump, Kim with thousands of screws

Bom Bo locates in Binh Minh commune, Bu Dang district in the southern province of Binh Phuoc. Since days fighting against the US, Bom Bo has been known for the song “Tieng chay tren soc Bom Bo” (the sound of rice-pounding pestle in Bom Bo hamlet) by late musician Xuan Hong. Sai Gon Giai Phong reporters have visited Bom Bo in days near Tet holidays. The tarmacked road leading to the hamlet run through hills green with coffee, cashew and other fruit trees. New houses and villages have gradually been built to replace simple houses on stilts. Bom Bo is now home to 377 households with 1,805 ethnic minority people. Of these, 193 households comprising 972 S’Tieng ethnic minority people. In the evening, there is neither sounds of rice-pounding pestles nor light of bamboo torches as in the song. The national electricity grid has reached each house. The communal center project, Program 135 for socio-economic development in specially-disadvantaged communes in ethnic minority … [Read more...] about Traditional culture well preserved in magnanimous Bom Bo hamlet