Travel Tips

After taking several night buses up the coast of Vietnam, I knew that the times stated meant nothing. When your Vietnamese travel agent says it takes 10 hours, you can add on another 5. So when I booked the bus from Hanoi to Luang Prabang and the man told me 24 hours, I knew it

Truong Van Phuc has traveled to the northern provinces of Viet Nam by motorbike with his friends many a time. However, a 15-day bicycle trip from Ha Noi to Ca Mau, the southernmost point of the country recently made the 24-year-old fall in love with cycling. Borrowing a giant bike from a friend he met

Many rivers in Viet Nam are dirty with pollution. It comes from factories, farms, homes and other places. This problem could be controlled by the country having better laws to protect the rivers. Experts decided at a special meeting that this was what should happen. The pollution has mostly been caused by untreated wastewater discharged

HA NOI (VNS) — It’s 5am and people are still sleeping, but Nguyen Thi Nga (not her real name) gets up and prepares lunch to take with her to work at a tailor’s shop in Ha Noi’s Quan Su Street. She has been employed there for nearly a year. The work not only provides Nga,