The Hanoi creative space design contest was launched on October 28 by the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports and Architecture Magazine in collaboration with the Hanoi’s People Committee and the Vietnam Association of Architects.

VOV.VN - The Culture Trip, a prestigious travel website, has published a list of the nation’s strangest locations which amaze foreigners.

VOV.VN - Deputy Commander of Military Region 4 and a number of soldiers have ran into difficulty while rescuing victims of the landslide that hit the Rao Trang 3 Hydropower Plant in the central province of Thua Thien Hue, according to a report on October 13 by the Office of the National Committee for Disaster Response and Search and Rescue.

VOV.VN - An exhibition looking at the nation’s craft villages opened on October 9 in Hanoi to mark the occasion of the 1,010th founding anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

Vietnam’s international integration has brought both challenges and opportunities for traditional craft villages, with the use of scientific and technical advances in production considered vital for them to thrive.

VOV.VN - Hanoi is at its most graceful and poetic in autumn. It is often vividly colorful.

‘Hoi Dinh Chem’, a lacquer painting by Nguyen Van Ty, has fetched EUR832,000 (US$972,000) at a French auction, a record price for a Vietnamese artwork in Europe.

VOV.VN - Dong Ngu village in Thuan Thanh district, Bac Ninh province, continues to draw crowds to its water puppet shows.

VOV.VN - Interior lacquer artworks which come from the Vietnamese traditional lacquer village of Ha Thai have been introduced to participants at Paris Design Week which is currently being held in France from September 3 to September 12.

VOV.VN - Located in District 11 of Ho Chi Minh City, the Phu Binh lantern making village is enduring a period of slower business than usual in the buildup to the Mid-Autumn Festival, largely due to the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic.