(VOVWORLD) - The first Vietnam Craft Villages Festival has opened at Thang Long Imperial Citadel in Hanoi with many cultural activities, offering an opportunity for craft villages nationwide to bring their products closer to domestic and international consumers. The event is jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Hanoi People’s Committee.

(VOVWORLD) - It’s autumn in Hanoi, the most beautiful season of the year. All the streets in the capital city turn yellow, the color of autumn sunshine and fallen leaves. Hanoi surprises everyone by nature’s mildness at the changing of the seasons. Autumn is a Hanoi "specialty" that everyone, who once experiences it, falls in love with it and remembers it. It’s why Hanoi has been listed by CNN Travel as one of the 12 best places in the world to visit in autumn.

(VOVWORLD) - The Hanoi Tourism Ao Dai Festival 2023 is in full swing right on Hoan Kiem Pedestrian Street, and the showstopper is a dazzling ao dai fashion extravaganza, starring thousands of women. In addition to the festival, Hanoi’s authorities have organized a whole lineup of events to spread the love for the cherished traditional Vietnamese attire.

(VOVWORLD) - Over the past 5 years, special evening classes have been held for ethnic minority people 30 to 60 years old in the border areas of Que Phong, Tuong Duong, and Ky Son district in Nghe An province. More specially, the teachers are young volunteers of Defense Economic Unit No. 4 of the Ministry of National Defense who are full of enthusiasm to bring literacy to ethnic minority people.

(VOVWORLD) - Ha Lau is the only mountainous commune in Tien Yen district, Quang Ninh province to have an ethnic market. Visitors not only take in rich cultures of different ethnic minorities but can also join in exciting football matches played by local ethnic women.

(VOVWORLD) - After the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of Muslim tourists (Halal tourism) traveling to Southeast Asian countries, including Vietnam, has increased. Quang Ninh province has prepared the best conditions to serve the special guests.

(VOVWORLD) - 44-year old Christine Ha or Ha Huyen Tran is a female Vietnamese-American chef who impressively won the “2012 American MasterChef” competition. Last week she returned to Vietnam, her home country, as a Culinary Ambassador of the US Embassy in Vietnam to participate in multiple activities to inspire young Vietnamese people, especially those with disabilities.

(VOVWORLD) - Tram Chim National Park in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap has been a habitat for red-crowned cranes, an endangered bird species listed in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red List of Threatened Species. Over the past two years, the red-crowned crane has not returned to the park due to climate change and the changing ecological environment. Dong Thap is working on a conservation project to bring the birds back to Tram Chim.

(VOVWORLD) - September 2023 marks 50 years since Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s historic visit to Vietnam and the liberated zone in the central province of Quang Tri during the war. The Vietnamese people hold dear in their hearts the immortal saying of leader Castro: “For Vietnam, Cuba is willing to shed its blood.” These words have become an enduring symbol of the deep and unwavering friendship between the people of Vietnam and Cuba.

(VOVWORLD) - A project to improve the lives of people with disabilities in provinces heavily affected by Agent Orange/dioxin has been effectively implemented in Binh Phuoc province, a locality that has suffered the consequences of landmines, unexploded ordnances, and Agent Orange since the war. The project is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Vietnam.