Whale worshipping festival excites crowds in Vung Tau city
Whale worshipping festival excites crowds in Vung Tau city

VOV.VN - The Nghinh Ong Festival, an event held for fishermen to pay their respects to whales and show their gratitude for a bumper catch, was held on October 2 in Vung Tau city, southern Vietnam, with thousands of residents and tourists in attendance.

Whale worshipping festival excites crowds in Vung Tau city
Daily lives of local people through lens of French photographer
Daily lives of local people through lens of French photographer

VOV.VN - French photographer Réhahn Croquevielle has impressed the world after capturing a range of stunning photos that depict the daily lives of Vietnamese people.

Daily lives of local people through lens of French photographer
Unique moon cakes hit domestic market for Full Moon Festival
Unique moon cakes hit domestic market for Full Moon Festival

VOV.VN - Local customers are able to purchase a variety of different moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, with their special shapes, colours and reasonable prices proving to be an attractive offer.

Unique moon cakes hit domestic market for Full Moon Festival
HCM City streets crowded during Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations
HCM City streets crowded during Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations

VOV.VN - Luong Nhu Hoc street and Nguyen Hue street in Ho Chi Minh City have been left packed with residents and tourists in recent days with people flocking to enjoy the festive atmosphere of the Full-Moon Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month each year.

HCM City streets crowded during Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations
Deprived children nationwide enjoy celebrations for Mid-Autumn Festival
Deprived children nationwide enjoy celebrations for Mid-Autumn Festival

VOV.VN - Local authorities and philanthropists across the country have come together to organise Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations specifically for underprivileged children, offering them an array of festive gifts whilst putting on unique art performances for them to enjoy.

Deprived children nationwide enjoy celebrations for Mid-Autumn Festival
Photos show difference between old and modern Full Moon Festival celebrations
Photos show difference between old and modern Full Moon Festival celebrations

VOV.VN - Although celebrations for the Mid-Autumn Festival have evolved over the years, the annual event has kept the same meaning, providing a special occasion for family reunions, vibrant dragon dances, colourful lanterns, and delicious moon cakes.

Photos show difference between old and modern Full Moon Festival celebrations
Border guards help poor children celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival
Border guards help poor children celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival

VOV.VN - Border guards stationed in Huong Hoa district in the central province of Quang Tri have put on a Full Moon Festival specifically for deprived children who live in the area close to the nation’s border with Laos to enjoy.

Border guards help poor children celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival
Hoi An listed among Top 10 best Asian cities to visit this year
Hoi An listed among Top 10 best Asian cities to visit this year

VOV.VN - Hoi An in the central Vietnamese province of Quang Nam has been named among the Top 10 best cities to visit in Asia this year, as announced by travel website Pretty Wild World.

Hoi An listed among Top 10 best Asian cities to visit this year
Mid-Autumn Festival gifts to mountain children
Mid-Autumn Festival gifts to mountain children

VOV.VN - Philanthropists of Hanoi capital have delivered boxes of candy, lanterns, books, toys and school supplies to ethnic children in Nam Ban commune, Lai Chau province in the hopes the needy children will enjoy a full-moon festival like their peers in the plain.

Mid-Autumn Festival gifts to mountain children
Get your Thai fusion on at these six Saigon joints
Get your Thai fusion on at these six Saigon joints

Boasting signature Thai cuisine, these six Saigon eateries serve up a fusion of traditional and modern flavors.

Get your Thai fusion on at these six Saigon joints