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Roundups
Stay connected with Saigoneer on Twitter and Instagram and like us on Facebook . Each morning, we select some of the most important stories from Saigon, the rest of Vietnam and beyond, and digest them into short, accessible links so you can easily keep up with current affairs.
![[Photos] A Wintry Japan Through the Lens of Photographer Yusuke Komatsu](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/2019/Feb/17/yusuke0b.jpg)
Enveloped by the elements, Japan’s capital is both mystifying and enchanting.
Saigon
Due to 23/9 Park’s dilapidated state, a competition to redesign the space was recently approved by city authorities.
Education
The students became water. Or rather, buried beneath blankets and waving sheets, flicking flashlights on and off, mouths shushing and humming, they acted out “The Water’s Journey” as inspired by an Ansel Adams’ photo and the Sean Shepherd composition ‘Tuolumne’.
Eat & Drink
District 1’s Phan Ke Binh Street only spans two blocks, yet it contains an assortment of culinary gems. In an alley on the edge of Nguyen Dinh Chieu sits a handsome modernist villa that is now home to Fresh Catch, a new Mediterranean eatery that, as you’ve probably guessed, prides itself on offering the best seafood sourced from Vietnam’s coastal waters.
Hanoi
Hanoi authorities, who aim to plant a million trees over the course of 2019 and 2020, have made progress in greening the city in the weeks after Tet.
Roundups
Stay connected with Saigoneer on Twitter and Instagram and like us on Facebook . Each morning, we select some of the most important stories from Saigon, the rest of Vietnam and beyond, and digest them into short, accessible links so you can easily keep up with current affairs.
Development
The project has already attracted three investors including Nippon Koei, FECON and Transport Engineering Design Inc.
Saigon
Are you tall enough to be a teacher?
Roundups
Stay connected with Saigoneer on Twitter and Instagram and like us on Facebook . Each morning, we select some of the most important stories from Saigon, the rest of Vietnam and beyond, and digest them into short, accessible links so you can easily keep up with current affairs.
![[Photos] A Communal House in Son La Inspired by Indigenous Headscarves](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/2019/Feb/13/house/a1b.jpg)
Architecture
Inspired by the headscarves worn by ethnic minority women in the area, the Son La Province structure appears to be drifting across the lush landscape on a pollen-sweet breeze.
![[Video] Two Railway Flagwomen Save Elderly Woman Seconds Before the Train Comes](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/2019/Feb/13/Railcrossings_SGRb.jpg)
Vietnam
The incident happened on Nguyen Thanh Phuong Road in Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai Province.
![[Illustrations] A Medley of 'Year of the Pig' Depictions From 35 Young Artists Across Vietnam](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/2019/Feb/13/beheoce/Beheoce0b.jpg)
Music & Arts
May your Year of the Pig turn out as plump and sleek as the swine icons featured in the Beheoce project.
Sports
Following his strong performance as part of Vietnam’s national football team in 2018, goaltender Dang Van Lam has been highly sought-after by other teams in the region. He has now settled with Muangthong United, one of Thailand’s top teams.
Roundups
Stay connected with Saigoneer on Twitter and Instagram and like us on Facebook . Each morning, we select some of the most important stories from Saigon, the rest of Vietnam and beyond, and digest them into short, accessible links so you can easily keep up with current affairs.
Arts & Culture
Nearly 50 years after the iconic photo of her running from a bombing raid was taken, Phan Thi Kim Phuc has earned Germany's Dresden award for her support of UNESCO and children wounded in war.
Development
The construction is expected to be completed by 2025.
Health
If you’re a Vietnamese of a certain age, you might attribute your previous night’s poor sleep to some atmospheric disturbance.
Roundups
Stay connected with Saigoneer on Twitter and Instagram and like us on Facebook . Each morning, we select some of the most important stories from Saigon, the rest of Vietnam and beyond, and digest them into short, accessible links so you can easily keep up with current affairs.
![[Video] This Cinemagraph Celebrates Hanoi's Endearing Dawn Aerobics](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/urbanisthanoi/article-images/2019/02/News/SomeWeirdCinegraph_SGRh.jpg)
Arts & Culture
Every single morning, at sunrise, hundreds of Hanoians descend on Hoan Kiem Lake to practice tai chi, aerobics and laughter yoga, or enjoy a morning stroll to ease the aches from their bones.
Vietnam
What could possibly go wrong?
Health
The patient, a 36-year-old businessman, was awake for two of the surgery's six hours, during which he sang and conversed with doctors to assure the procedure was not damaging areas of his brain needed for basic motor and language skills.
![[Photos] 10 Remarkable Black-and-White Shots of Saigon in 1967](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/2019/Feb/11/nguyen-thanh-tai/Saigon1967UPI_SGRb.jpg)
Saigon
Lush bunches of fresh bananas at a market, a street-side merchant selling embroidered artworks to tourists, and Buddhist worshipers praying at a local temple — these Saigon scenes are rather mundane by today’s standards. However, at the time these photos were taken, these were remarkable visual pieces of proof to western audiences that Vietnam had a dynamic side apart from war and poverty.
Travel
Between 1989 and 1997, a massive 201-room floating hotel sat anchored in the Saigon River.