HANOI – The profession of picking bamboo leaves of the people of Dong Chiem village (An Phu, My Duc) has existed for more than 30 years, helping them to eliminate hunger, reduce poverty and raise their children to be educated. Bach Thi Phi (50 years old) tied her hair up ...
Officially operating since 2013, the second-hand and antique market is considered a place to trade nostalgia and rediscover old Saigon memories. The market is located in an alley cafe on No Trang Long Street. Every week, the market starts from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Admission is ...
QUANG BINH – Twice started a business, when it was almost time to “pick the fruit”, the storm “blows away” hundreds of millions of dong, but Nguyen Van Nhi persisted to revive his career in his hometown. One day at the end of 2020, when Typhoon Vamco hit Quang Binh, ...
SON LA – 12 years ago, when he saw an Australian orange bought at the supermarket with two remaining stems, Ha Van Chien came up with the idea of cutting it and grafting it into a wild grapefruit. The 33-year-old man that year did not expect this to change his life ...
HAI DUONG – Every year, from the 8th to the 9th lunar month, the people of Chi Linh city go to the forest to collect chestnuts, earning 350-500,000 VND (15-25$)per day. At noon on October 31, in the forest at Ho Dinh dam, Ho Su village, Hoang Hoa Tham commune, ...
HO CHI MINH CITY – Mr. Hong Duc, 34, in Tan Phu district, receives about 250 orders of chibi-style sculptures every month, selling for between 20$ and 200$. For the past ten years, Mr. Le Nguyen Hong Duc has been working with the work of creating clay portraits, in the ...
HO CHI MINH CITY – Once a week, the rowing group of Mr. Truong Sanh Cuong, 24, spends two hours picking up trash on the Rach Chiec River, Thu Duc City. For more than two months now, every weekend, members of the “Sup Tired” club have organized rowing and picking ...
HANOI – With three workers, every day Mr. Hung’s shop repairs and maintains up to 5 watches, with prices ranging from 2-20 million, depending on the brand. Mr. Nguyen Huu Hung, 40 years old, apprenticed to repair watches since the age of 16. This is a profession passed down from his ...
HO CHI MINH CITY – The dry, old house walls, through Duc Du’s hands, will turn into a large-scale 3D painting that, if you don’t look closely, many people mistakenly think it’s a real scene. For about a week now, the painting painted on the rolling door combined with the ...
Not having to put a few pots of plants, as usual, many people are spending hundreds of millions of dong planting trees all over the house, turning their living space into a “tropical jungle” corner. Every morning, the humidification system for the indoor garden of Mr. Phu Tue Tri, ...
BINH THUAN Sister Thanh Nga once thought about going back to her hometown to avoid the epidemic. When it was okay, she would return to Saigon, but the rose-scented garden kept her forever. At the beginning of 2020, Covid appeared, causing a disturbance in the teaching job of Ms. Nga, ...
HANOI – When Neymar was named to win the top prize in the international cat contest, Nguyen Hoang Bach was silent because his 5-year journey had finally yielded sweet fruit. “This is one of the two most beautiful cats I’ve seen at this year’s shows. The head structure is so ...