Hanoi, a city of a hundred lakes, has an island in the centre called Banana Island. No marks for guessing what it grows!

Binh Dang A few years ago, a French-German TV crew visited my home in Hanoi for an interview on how Vietnam had changed ... holes pocking the walls of the buildings within the Citadel and elsewhere.

In 1954, the French were finally defeated by the Viet Minh at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. This defeat was formalised in the Geneva Agreement and temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones ...

The resulting media attention proved very embarrassing for the defeated French. The outcome of this defeat was formalised in the Geneva Agreement of July 1954 and temporarily separated Vietnam ...

The exhibition features over 50 black-and-white photographs by French photographer Marc Riboud. It is being held by Les amis de Marc Riboud (Marc Riboud’s friends association) to commemorate Vietnam’s ...

HANOI, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- As many as 163 buildings in Vietnam were certified as green in 2024, doubling the number of the previous year, local media cited the Vietnam Green Building Market ...