At the age 23, Phuc married a Chinese man as the way to show gratitude to her parents. The Can Tho girl was unexpected to fall into painful days in a foreign land.

For most of their wedding, Do Thi Thanh Thuy and Andrea Da Gasso followed Vietnamese tradition, lighting incense, wearing ao dai, and marching gifts over from the groom’s house.

The image of a cleft palate boy who “missed out” during a charity surgery program but still ran after international doctors to say goodbye had haunted doctors for 15 years. Back in Vietnam, [ … ]

As autumn’s cooler weather is welcomed by many in northern Vietnam, for many ethnic minorities in far flung mountainous regions, it’s also a reminder that winter is coming.

Experts from the National Institute for Nutrition agreed in a recent seminar that Vietnamese people are becoming over-weight due to consuming too much meat.

A number of young women have been opting to stage wedding photographs as a way to ease their loneliness.

Residents in five tenement blocks in Phu My, My Dinh Commune, Tu Liem District are in shock after finding that the running water they have used for several years contains high levels of arse [ … ]

While the topic of whether local women should marry foreign men has been debated for years, a local model-cum-actress recently shared her opinion after a broken marriage with a French man.

After four years of trying, Le Kim Thoa couldn't believe it was true. Both her quick test and ultrasound results showed she was pregnant again, 48 months after first becoming a mum.

Editor’s note: Our columnist James Allen tells the true story of one of his friends, a Vietnamese, who is gay and HIV-positive. The name of the friend has been changed to protect the subject [ … ]