Stunning images of Vietnam from above make int’l photo awards
Stunning images of Vietnam from above make int’l photo awards

VOV.VN - The organisers of the Drone Photo Awards 2020 recently announced a range of impressive photos for this year’s competition, including those of Vietnam from above, receiving plenty of attention from art lovers.

Stunning images of Vietnam from above make int’l photo awards
HCM City promotes tourism through postcards
HCM City promotes tourism through postcards

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City has unveiled a beautiful range of postcards following the launch of the “Hello Ho Chi Minh City" tourism promotion campaign on October 1, aimed at showcasing the city’s landscapes and the daily lives of local people.

HCM City promotes tourism through postcards
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
Preliminary round of Miss Vietnam 2020 gets underway in southern region
Preliminary round of Miss Vietnam 2020 gets underway in southern region

VOV.VN - The preliminary round of Miss Vietnam 2020 in the southern region kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on September 26, with the event seeing the participation of numerous beauty queens and a number of outstanding contestants.

Preliminary round of Miss Vietnam 2020 gets underway in southern region
Expensive foreign fruit proves popular in Vietnamese market
Expensive foreign fruit proves popular in Vietnamese market

VOV.VN - Plenty of Vietnamese consumers are willing to spend millions of VND in order to purchase expensive foreign fruit which is currently popular within the local market.

Expensive foreign fruit proves popular in Vietnamese market
Lanterns provide colour for Hanoi street ahead of Mid-Autumn Festival
Lanterns provide colour for Hanoi street ahead of Mid-Autumn Festival

VOV.VN - Phung Hung street in Hanoi has been thoroughly decorated with hundreds of colourful lanterns in anticipation of the upcoming celebrations for the Full-moon Festival.

Lanterns provide colour for Hanoi street ahead of Mid-Autumn Festival
Hanoi family keeps tradition of making wooden mooncake moulds alive
Hanoi family keeps tradition of making wooden mooncake moulds alive

VOV.VN - Despite cheap plastic mooncake moulds being extremely popular among the domestic market, a family from Hanoi have maintained a tradition of crafting wooden mooncake molds for approximately 40 years.

Hanoi family keeps tradition of making wooden mooncake moulds alive
Winners of Explore Vietnam photo contest unveiled
Winners of Explore Vietnam photo contest unveiled

VOV.VN - A ceremony took place on September 24 at the Vietnam Military History Museum in Hanoi to award the winners of the ninth national tourism photo contest Explore Vietnam.

Winners of Explore Vietnam photo contest unveiled
Mini mooncakes all the rage ahead of Mid-Autumn Festival 2020
Mini mooncakes all the rage ahead of Mid-Autumn Festival 2020

VOV.VN - Hand-made mini mooncakes are proving to be popular products ahead of the Mid-Autumn Festival 2020 due to their cheap prices and a diverse range of models.

Mini mooncakes all the rage ahead of Mid-Autumn Festival 2020
Beauty queens gather for Miss Vietnam 2020 press conference
Beauty queens gather for Miss Vietnam 2020 press conference

VOV.VN - The organisers of the Miss Vietnam 2020 pageant held a press conference in Ho Chi Minh City on September 24, re-launching the beauty contest following its postponement due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic.

Beauty queens gather for Miss Vietnam 2020 press conference
In photos: Favourite check-in spots for Mid-Autumn Festival in HCM City
In photos: Favourite check-in spots for Mid-Autumn Festival in HCM City

VOV.VN - An array of bars and coffee shops in Ho Chi Minh City have put up decorations in preparation for the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, with the southern city being home to a number of popular check-in spots for guests to enjoy.

In photos: Favourite check-in spots for Mid-Autumn Festival in HCM City
Hanoi in 1989 as seen through the lens of French journalist
Hanoi in 1989 as seen through the lens of French journalist

VOV.VN - Let’s take a journey through time and look back at the daily life of Hanoians in 1989 through a series of photos captured by famous French journalist Francoise De Mulder who lived from 1947 to 2008.

Hanoi in 1989 as seen through the lens of French journalist
Traditional Mid-Autumn Festival celebration held at Thang Long Imperial Citadel
Traditional Mid-Autumn Festival celebration held at Thang Long Imperial Citadel

VOV.VN - The Thang Long Imperial Citadel in Hanoi is hosting a range of activities to celebrate the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival.

Traditional Mid-Autumn Festival celebration held at Thang Long Imperial Citadel
Hanoi locals ignore COVID-19 warnings as pedestrian streets reopen
Hanoi locals ignore COVID-19 warnings as pedestrian streets reopen

VOV.VN - Numerous residents of the capital could be spotted not wearing face masks in public areas around Hoan Kiem lake on the first day of the reopening of the pedestrian streets, despite the ongoing threat of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Hanoi locals ignore COVID-19 warnings as pedestrian streets reopen
In photos: Vietnam Airlines resumes first flight to Japan
In photos: Vietnam Airlines resumes first flight to Japan

VOV.VN - Vietnam Airlines on September 19 transported as many as 60 passengers to Japan, kick-starting regular commercial flights to the Far East country under the Vietnamese government’s recent decision to resume international flights.

In photos: Vietnam Airlines resumes first flight to Japan
Terraced fields of Hoang Su Phi appear stunning during harvest season
Terraced fields of Hoang Su Phi appear stunning during harvest season

VOV.VN - Situated in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang, visitors to Hoang Su Phi district are sure to be overwhelmed by the area’s yellow terraced fields which appear to be straight out of a fairytale.

Terraced fields of Hoang Su Phi appear stunning during harvest season
Storm Noul wreaks havoc in central region after making landfall
Storm Noul wreaks havoc in central region after making landfall

VOV.VN - The arrival of storm Noul in the central region on September 18 has led to a deluge of heavy rain, with trees uprooted in Da Nang and dozens of houses left without roofs in Ha Tinh province.

Storm Noul wreaks havoc in central region after making landfall
Impressive local image enters Sony World Photography Awards 2021
Impressive local image enters Sony World Photography Awards 2021

VOV.VN - The organisers of the Sony World Photography Awards 2021 have revealed an array of stunning early submissions that will be competing in four categories of the photo competition, including an artwork submitted by Vietnamese photographer Khanh Phan.

Impressive local image enters Sony World Photography Awards 2021
Residents flock to Hue after social distancing relaxed
Residents flock to Hue after social distancing relaxed

VOV.VN - The central province of Thua Thien-Hue has received hordes of people coming from Da Nang City, the epicenter of the country’s largest coronavirus outbreak, after it relaxed social distancing measures, starting September 16.

Residents flock to Hue after social distancing relaxed
Tri An lake appears charming in green algae season
Tri An lake appears charming in green algae season

VOV.VN - Located in Dong Nai province, Tri An lake regularly attracts a huge number of visitors and photographers during the green algae season.

Tri An lake appears charming in green algae season
First day of re-opening sees crowds descend on Da Nang Hospital
First day of re-opening sees crowds descend on Da Nang Hospital

VOV.VN - Da Nang Hospital officially got back to normal on the morning of September 15, while ensuring measures on novel coronavirus (COVID-19) prevention and control were taken.

First day of re-opening sees crowds descend on Da Nang Hospital