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Nguyen Thi Mong Nghi and her husband have been working hard to rebuild their lives together ever since a traffic accident left her with a prosthetic leg.

November 11, 2011 was an unforgettable date for Nghi.

Heavy rains and slick roads made driving difficult, yet Nghi’s husband was still willing to drive his wife home from work by motorbike.

Neither suspected that short trip home would change their lives forever.

A lifelong commitment

Prior to that day, Nghi and her husband Cuong had both made a living as factory workers in Binh Chanh District on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City.

Every evening, the couple would drive home to their rented room together to spend time with their newborn son.

But life changed for Nghi and Cuong on November 11, 2011, when a truck driver lost control amid the torrential downpour and crashed into the couple’s motorbike.

It was not until Nghi was at the hospital that she finally regained consciousness and learned she had lost an entire leg in the crash.

Doctors also told her she had a fractured skull and such severe head trauma that it was a miracle she was still alive.

Fearing her injuries would be nothing but a burden to her husband, Nghi insisted on a divorce.

“She just couldn’t come to terms with her new reality,” Cuong said.

“But the idea of letting go of her never crossed my mind, not even once.

“After all that we’ve been through together, I figured out that I had already put so much effort into convincing her to date and marry me, so why give up now?”

Cuong, the devoted husband, has been by her side ever since.

Ten years on, Cuong, 44, and Nghi, 41, are still struggling to rebuild their lives, but say their love is stronger than ever.

Nghi is able to walk again and the couple now live a ‘nomadic life,’ moving between jobs in Ben Tre Province, Ho Chi Minh City, and Dong Nai Province.

Their son now lives with Cuong’s parents.

Nghi also runs a small hair salon at her rented room on Cach Mang Thang Tam Street in Trang Bom Town, Dong Nai Province, but her already slow business was hit hard during the COVID-19 outbreaks in March and July last year.

She now has plans to sell her shop and relocate to a place with more affordable rent.

Nguyen Thi Mong Nghi, with long scars on her arm from a gruesome road crash in November 2011, rehearses a popular piece for a cabaret with her husband sitting by her side. Photo: Hoang Tung / Tuoi Tre

Relocating is nothing new for Nghi and Cuong.

Following the accident, the couple moved in with Nghi’s older sister in Binh Chanh District, where Nghi supported the family by playing keyboard at parties and cabarets.

Eventually, Nghi ran out of offers for gigs and was forced to move to Dong Nai.

“We’re like nomads,” Cuong said.

“We go where we can earn money,”

To supplement his family’s income, Cuong does odd jobs around town, including construction work and scrap dealing.

At night, he joins his wife for her keyboard gigs.

“It’s such a grind, but what keeps us moving forward is our son,” Cuong shared.

“We’re trying to save up to make a fresh start back in our hometown so we can be reunited with our son.

“It’s really hard being unable to see him grow up.”

A blessing in disguise

While COVID-19 has led to a drop in keyboard gigs and hairdressing customers, Nghi’s confidence is growing as she slowly learns to overcome her disability.

“Being alive is everything to me,” Nghi smiled.

“I’m still more fortunate than many because my husband is always by my side.

“We may live in poverty but at least we are together.”

Occasionally, the couple visit Nghi’s older sister, Nguyen Thi Hang, on their way to and from performances in Ho Chi Minh City.

Hang, a witness to the couple’s decade-long struggle to build back after the accident, said the disturbing memory of her sister in the hospital still sends chills down her spine.

“My sister and her husband were tossed onto the street,” she said.

“The rain was so heavy that pedestrians had to tie a rope to themselves just to keep from getting washed away while crossing the street.

“I think the accident was caused by poor visibility.”

Nguyen Thi Hai, Hang’s 85-year-old mother-in-law, has also been a major source of support for Nghi and Cuong.

In fact, it was Hai’s son who first suggested that Nghi take up keyboard as a way to rehabilitate her arms.

Now, after several years of practice, Nghi earns VND250,000 (US$10.8) from each weekend performance and double that amount for large events.

Despite barely being able to put food on the table, Nghi and Cuong still cherish their time together and shower each other with affection.

“There’s still a steel pin [in his shoulder],” Nghi said.

“Instead of having it removed six months after the initial surgery, he decided to keep it in so we could save money and pay for my surgeries.”

“I’ll have it removed once we can afford a set of musical instruments,” Cuong said, trying to comfort his wife.

He called the plan to buy new instruments a ‘project’ which they have worked on for five years now.

Finishing the ‘project’ is merely the next step in their happily-ever-after story.

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Vietnam climbed three places to 47th in the Global Soft Power Index 2021 thanks to significant improvements in its national brand and socio-economic achievements over the past year, according to Brand Finance Global Soft Power Index Report.

Viet Nam seems to have managed all aspects of its perception quite well. Especially the integration and alignment of its nation brand and the brands from the country, according to Samir Dixit, Managing Director, Brand Finance Asia Pacific.

The Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc approved the Viet Nam National Brand Program from 2020 to 2030, which aims to increase the value and rankings of the nation brand while targeting over 1,000 products to become strong national brands. The brands from the country are managed through specific efforts and initiatives undertaken by Vietrade, under their nation mark program “Viet Nam Value”, he added.

At a national level, Viet Nam had established diplomatic relations with 187 out of 193 member states of the United Nations and completed the process of negotiating and signing new-generation FTAs – including the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the EU-Viet Nam Free Trade Agreement – making the country an important factor in all regional and intra-regional economic links, which is a booster for Viet Nam’s imports and exports.

Vu Ba Phu, Director General, Viet Nam Trade Promotion Agency, Ministry of Industry and Trade said soft power stems from not only the inheritance and promotion of its own values – including the heroic history, tradition, culture, and peace-loving foreign policy – but also the development and optimization of its new position and advantage.

In the difficult context of 2020, the successful “dual role” performance of Viet Nam, as both ASEAN President and non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, is a testament to the harmonious application of soft power in Viet Nam’s multilateral and bilateral diplomatic relations, said Phu.

Viet Nam is one of the most open economies in the world, with the ratio of trade to GDP increasing from 136% in 2010 to approximately 200% in 2019.

Amid COVID-19 shutdowns, causing outputs to slump in early 2020, Viet Nam was among a very few number of countries to achieve positive GDP growth – of nearly 3%./.

A bus automatically offering free face masks and hand wash have been introduced in Ho Chi Minh City.

Disinfecting the area

The bus parks near Mien Tay Bus Station and the area is always disinfected before being opened to the public once every three hours. Those who want face masks will put their hands inside the bus where hand wash will automatically spray out before they take their face mask.

Many low-income people came to the bus to receive face masks. A pedestrian said, “Thank you. If it’s possible, please park outside our rental places for a while. Only low-income people live there.”

Washing hands before taking face masks

Pham Quang Anh, owner of the bus said he had heard and would take note of the request. The volunteers who work on the bus said they didn’t feel tired at all when they saw other people’s appreciation. There’s also a loudspeaker to promote preventive measures. The bus is on the way to give away 1,000 face masks to the residents in HCM City and nearby provinces.

Offering free face masks for better Covid-19 prevention

The bus is 7 metres long and 3.1 metres wide with two places to take face masks. People in the queue have been kept 2 metres apart. The masks meet German REACH standards and can be reused several times.

A man wears face mask immediately

The bus will continue to move to different locations such as the Mien Dong Bus Station, Tan Binh District Culture Centre, and industrial parks.

Pham Quang Anh said the bus applied automated technology to limit direct contacts as much as possible.

“We want to encourage the public to follow regulations and help protect the environment by issuing face masks that can be reused. We want to call for firms and organisations to help with supplying face masks, technology, personnel or funding to expand this project,” he said.

On an early weekend morning in late January, Bui Nguyen Van Nguyen sat down for a cup of coffee at Ba Lu, one of Saigon’s oldest cafés, located smack in the middle of Phung Hung Market in District 5.

After taking a sip of coffee brewed in the traditional net-filter method, Nguyen began snapping photographs of the market, cataloguing the simple beauty of everyday life in Saigon.

Such moments are typical for Nguyen who, for the past three years, has spent his time wandering around Saigon, capturing life through the perspective of his lens.

Saigon ‘enthusiast’

Nguyen’s love of Saigon is shown to the 106,000 followers of his Instagram account @odaucungchup , which translates to ‘taking photos everywhere.’

“It makes me happy that every day I get to wake up and realize I am in the heart of Saigon,” Nguyen told Tuoi Tre News .

Saigon at sunset. Photo: @odaucungchup

Nguyen’s goal is to showcase simple, familiar images of Saigon, from its narrow alleyways to its street corners covered in tangled electric wires, and everything in between.

Building his Instagram handle a place for Saigon lovers, he wrote upon his bio, “Do you guys love Saigon like me?”

Besides randomly taking photos of city life in a wide range of topics, Nguyen has also run several long-term series, including Saigon Old Texts, Saigon Houses, Saigon Alleys, Saigon Cinemas, Saigon People, Patterns of Saigon, and more.

A photo from Bui Nguyen Van Nguyen’s Saigon Old Texts photo series

“I’m always attracted to shops with nice old-school signs when I need to buy or repair things because I truly believe that the people in those places put love and kindness into their work,” Nguyen captioned a series depicting store signage.

The 29-year-old photographer also uploads the story behind each photo, describing his feelings about it or what he has learned of the area where the picture was taken.

“Each time I stop at my regular banh mi [ Vietnamese baguette] stall on the way to work, I’m welcomed by Ms. Bay, the owner,” Nguyen told his Instagram followers.

“She always asks me if I want to stick to my favorite choices of fillings.

“It shows me she truly cares.”

According to Nguyen, he has never had a specific plan to post a picture or a story on a certain day.

“When I’m in the mood for telling a certain story, I look for the photos in my collections, do a little retouch before recalling what happened that day,” he described the routine to run his account.

The man has the peculiar habit of ending his sentences with commas, rather than periods.

“I want to give my sentences an open ending so that readers can continue to tell stories in their own way and from their own perspectives,” Nguyen explained.

“I think it makes people more comfortable if they are free to express their thoughts after the commas.”

A photo from Bui Nguyen Van Nguyen’s Saigon Alleys photo series

The boy from Dak Lak

Given his devotion to the southern metropolis, most of Nguyen’s fans are surprised when they find out he is not a Saigon native, but rather a transplant from the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak.

Nguyen first came to Saigon 10 years ago in order to pursue higher education and has since made the city his home.

“My journey of maturing is in Saigon, with all the best moments in my life having been witnessed by the city,” he explained.

“When I was living with my family in my hometown, I was just a high school boy who didn’t know a thing about life.

“It wasn’t until I began living independently in Saigon that I started to learn what life is all about and how to live kindly.”

Bui Nguyen Van Nguyen in a photo he provided Tuoi Tre News

His love for the bustling city has grown ever since.

“Saigon brought many beautiful people and experiences to my life,” he said.

“When I’m away from the city, I always suffer from missing the city and its things, like a loaf of banh mi .”

Saigon has also been a city of firsts for Nguyen.

“The city brought me many first times, like the first time I had my motorbike stolen or the first time I quit a job,” he shared.

“Sometimes, when I feel really down, I stop working for a while and wander, then stop and listen to all the street sounds.

“It helps me ‘recharge my batteries,’ which gives me energy to keep moving forward.”

To Nguyen, Saigon is a huge ‘warehouse’ with endless material and inspiration.

“Saigon is like a rain,” he remarked.

“It slowly drenches you until you realize how much you love it.”

A photo Bui Nguyen Van Nguyen took in Saigon under the theme of Tet (Vietnamese Lunar New Year).

Currently, Nguyen’s only plan is to continue running the @odaucungchup Instagram account in order to share his perspective on the city with the world.

Nguyen also denied being called a photographer, saying the title is “too great” for him.

“I would like to be called a Saigon storyteller with photos,” he said.

A photo from above by Bui Nguyen Van Nguyen shows vegetables being sold a wet market in Saigon.

A photo shows local people making banh ba trang , a typical dish of Chinese-Vietnamese people in Vietnam for Doan Ngo Festival, which is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month in the lunar calendar. Photo : @odaucungchup

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On Thursday, Trinh Nguyen, 31, woke up to another day without power and water in Houston, Texas.

In close to subzero temperatures, the Vietnamese woman and her four-member family used a fireplace to keep themselves warm.

“We did not stock up on firewood, so we have to use it sparingly,” she said, thanking the stars that the weather was getting warmer and they’d had the fireplace as a “winter savior.”

It was the third day that Nguyen’s family had no water, and the second day without pour.

Sharing the family’s plight in varying degrees, from slightly better to much worse, are many of their Vietnamese brethren in the south-central state, which was hit by winter storms that swept across the south and east of the country over the last few days, making pipes freeze and burst. Worse still, the state’s power grid has stopped working.

A woman carries bottled water she received from a warming center and shelter in Galveston, Texas on February 17, 2021. Most residents are without electricity after record-breaking winter temperatures, local media reports say. Photo by Reuters/Adrees Latif.

Lan Bui, 41, has not been able to go to work for the last three days due to the icy and snowy conditions in Texas’s Austin City.

“The outside is like a giant freezer and roads are too slick to drive on,” Bui commented.

In Austin, dozens of crashes have been reported in the last few days, even though local authorities had pre-treated bridges and overpasses in preparation for the icy conditions.

Notably, on February 11, six people were killed in an accident that involved more than 100 vehicles on a Texas interstate.

“Even after we ran out of food, we did not dare to drive to the local Walmart to buy some more,” Bui said.

Those staying inside have struggled to stay warm amid widespread electricity failure caused by freezing natural gas pipelines.

In a 40,000-member Facebook group of Vietnamese living in Houston, many have shared their suffering without electric heaters.

“I have never experienced such coldness in my life. Without the heater, our apartment is like a fridge,” Tran Hoa My wrote on February 16, adding she had to burn some firewood in the yard behind the building to stay warm and cook just once a day.

Texas has experienced some of its coldest temperatures in three decades, with some areas reaching a record low temperature of minus 18 degrees Celsius this week.

Afraid for their lives

As of February 18, at least 36 people had died due to the extreme weather conditions in Texas and other states, some of them of carbon monoxide poisoning after they used vehicles or generators to keep warm.

“Will my children and I die if we sleep by the fireplace all night? It is too cold, and we cannot sleep even if we have layers of blankets,” a Vietnamese woman asked the Facebook group on February 17.

Staying warm is not the only thing the residents have to worry about.

Many are worried that pipes can break when the water pressure gets turned back on and this is a problem that cannot be ignored, particularly amidst freezing temperatures.

Since plumbing services may be delayed interminably, My’s husband had to travel to a store and buy some hardware.

“There was a long line of cars waiting for the store to open when he arrived, some people were impatient, fighting and they had to call the police,” she said.

A man walks to his friend’s house in a neighborhood without electricity as snow covers Pflugerville, Texas, February 15, 2021. Photo by Reuters.

With no water, electricity and gas, the Vietnamese Texans have had to figure out different ways to survive.

Ha Nguyen, a Ph.D. student at Harvard University now living with her family in Houston, used bottled water and cooked her meals with a gas camping stove during 37 hours of outages.

“The inside, having no electricity, was as cold as the outside. So we gathered in one room, used all the blankets we have, and wore several layers of clothes before the electricity came back,” said Ha, mother of two children.

For Ha and others in the area, electricity returned on February 18.

But some people have not had that luck. According to poweroutage.us , which tracks outages across the country, as of February 19, more than 290,000 residents remained without power.

Help at hand

As many people desperately look for warmth and other necessities without electricity in freezing temperatures, the Vietnamese diaspora have opened their hearts and home to their brethren.

In Houston, Le Thuy, 36, and her children have been staying with her Vietnamese friend’s family since February 15, when the temperature hit minus 5 degrees.

“I had no idea about the power outage and freezing winter that was coming, so I did not stock up on firewood and food. I am lucky to have my friend’s house to shelter in,” Thuy said.

In many Facebook groups, people having electricity and clean water have invited others to come to their house and stay if they live in a blackout area.

“I have two more rooms on the second floor, please call me if you need a place to stay warm, I will not take your money,” Nguyen Anh Tuyet informed fellow Vietnamese Facebookers in Houston.

Some have offered free food.

“I will cook and give each family two boxes of food tomorrow, please come to pick the food up at my house… I also have milk for children,” Yen Nhi Tran wrote on February 19.

Texans will have to cope with more severe weather as a storm is expected to bring “significant ice accumulations and heavy snowfall,” according to the National Weather Service.

Those who have had their water and power supply restored have prepared for the coming storm by cooking a lot of food, taking a shower, and fixing their pipes.

The utility outages are severe because Texas, the largest energy producer and consumer in the U.S, is the only state to use its own power grid.

“After days without hot water, taking a shower is priority now,” said Trinh after power supply was restored late in the evening on Thursday.

She said she would make boxes of fried rice with eggs for her family to eat in case of a future blackout.

Her husband, meanwhile, went out to buy more firewood and bottled water.