Celebrate time

Ms. Marie Damour came back to Vietnam in 2019 after 15 years. According to her, although Vietnam has changed a lot, she highly appreciated the ways that Vietnamese people have taken care of traditional culture on Tet holiday, showed respect with their ancestors, grand-parents, parents, etc. … [Read more...] about Tet holiday-Wonderful time for experiencing Vietnam’s culture

Quang Nam (VNA) - Experiencing the changes of space and time, yet Hoi An ancient streets still keep their old beauty, and relic complexes are maintained intact along with a huge intangible cultural base. Hoi An is an ancient town of the Vietnamese. It is located in the lower reach of Thu Bon River in the coastal plain in Quang Nam province, about 30 km south of Da Nang city. Hoi An has been known in the international market with various names like Lam Ap, Faifo, Hoai Pho and Hoi An. The only Southeast Asian port-market in Vietnam and very rare in the world, Hoi An keeps almost intact 1,360 architectural relics like streets, houses, assembly halls, communal houses, pagodas, shrines, clan houses, ancient wells and tombs. They bear both the Vietnamese traditional art characteristics and the convergence of eastern and western cultures. Through centuries, yet customs and practices, rites, cultural and belief activities as well as traditional foods of Hoi An are still kept and preserved … [Read more...] about Attractiveness of Hoi An ancient streets – where time pauses

At the entrance to the cave, the words "Nam Thien De Nhat Dong" (The Best Cave in the South Sky) was carved in 1770 by Lord Trinh Sam of the Trinh family that ruled the country at the time. … [Read more...] about Pilgrim horde descends on Hanoi’s Perfume Pagoda

Several countries are trying to evacuate their citizens from Wuhan, the city in Hubei at the center of the epidemic. A U.S. government official who declined to be identified told Reuters a U.S. charter plane had departed from Wuhan earlier on Wednesday, without elaborating on the number of passengers on board. … [Read more...] about China virus toll passes 130 as U.S. weighs flight ban

But jobs are only a small fraction of the whole story. The greater part which is much arduous is the integration process into a new people and a new culture. Immigrants have to do away with their own lifestyles, habits and the living space in their homeland to adopt new ones in their host countries. For those who grow up in a foreign country when a child, it’s way easier. However, those who resettle overseas as adults will find it a formidable challenge. Many of them have got stuck between the two worlds—they get lost in the new world while being addressed by a strange title in “the world at home”: Viet kieu (overseas Vietnamese). … [Read more...] about Migration and Vietnamese identity