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Music & Arts
Nguyễn Văn Tỵ's family claims he never produced the lacquer screen of a jackfruit tree that was recently put up for bidding.
Music & Arts
Over the years, the resurgence in popularity of bolero music in Vietnam has spawned numerous new stars, but Phi Nhung’s place in the genre as a veteran chanteuse can never be replaced.
Vietnam
The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, combined with severe lockdown restrictions, has led to Vietnam's worst economic quarter in decades.
Food Culture
During the recent stretch of social distancing restrictions, we at Urbanist Hanoi felt like real adults because most of our money went to kitchen appliances, instead of eating out like before. Still, we were overjoyed when our favorite restaurants opened up again. Home-cooked meals are cool, but there’s something special about not having to do anything, but still having delicious food to eat.
Vietnam
Vaccine passports may soon become part of a “new normal” as more Vietnamese are getting their two shots.
Literature
The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai was named the runner-up for this year's Dayton Literary Peace Prize in the fiction category.
Vietnam
To infinity, and beyond!
Saigon
Taking care of its plants and animals costs the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens VND3–4 billion (US$132,000–176,000) a month, while no income has been generated since May.
![[Photos] D2's Okkio Cafe Is an Architectural Homage to Wong Kar-Wai](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/2021/09/23/cafe/okkio1m.webp)
Architecture
Today's architecture feature will be familiar to frequent visitors of Thao Dien.
Music & Arts
Nguyễn Anh Tú, known by his pen name Tú Na , likes to draw characters and make up stories. He graduated from the Hanoi University of Industrial Art, and has been drawing for over a decade. In 2020, Tú Na started a project called "#Hanoipunk" and has been building up the fantastical collection over time.
Saigon
Domestic tourists will eventually be allowed to enter Saigon if they have been fully vaccinated or recovered from a past COVID-19 infection.
Hanoi
Starting at 6am today, Hanoi began applying social distancing rules under the previous Directive 15, allowing various shops to reopen and businesses to function at 50% capacity.
Film & TV
The Việt Nam Film Institute (VFI) is providing free screenings of nine movies, available now on YouTube.
Saigon
The current COVID-19 crisis has crippled Saigon’s economy and disrupted the daily life of millions of people, but most tragically, it has also taken thousands of lives.
Education
While global tourism has certainly been negatively impacted over the last two years by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is sure to rebound and once again be an important driving force in Southeast Asia’s economies, eventually surpassing its previous contribution of 9% of Vietnam’s GDP .
Music & Arts
Trần Phát, known on social media as Phat HaHa , is a designer from Bien Hoa. He recently released an album of 30 Vietnamese artists drawn in cyberpunk style.
Literature
“Chữ_là để chữa_lành,” or “words are for healing," is Bay Library ’s motto for their poetry series . Amidst these difficult times, words have never abandoned people; they are here to heal, share, and sympathize.
Hanoi
Starting at noon today, districts with no new COVID-19 community transmission cases since September 6 are allowed to reopen various businesses and restaurants.
Environment
They are in Ninh Thuan and Gia Lai.
Health
Another vaccine will come to Vietnam in the future.
Vietnam
The free computers, set to be distributed by the end of this December, are part of a larger effort to help the nation's K-12 students during remote learning.
Saigon
After weeks of being banned, Saigon will soon allow shippers to deliver citywide.
![[Photos] Downtown Saigon in 1972: Same Same, but Different](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/2021/09/13/1972saigon/19x.webp)
Saigon
What if all the core images, sounds and smells you know of a place were intact, but altered, tweaked or reworked the way songs can be? In some ways, this is what it feels like to gaze at photographs of a place you know intimately, but taken during a time when you never existed.