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Music & Arts
A joint exhibition by rapper Wowy and artist Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn began last month with an auction that yielded hundreds of million of dong that will go towards humanitarian causes.
![[Photos] The Thu Duc Pavilion Resembling a Giant Arts and Crafts Project](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/2021/05/18/a1h.jpeg)
Architecture
Remember making arts and crafts projects using wooden popsicle sticks?
![A Tour of Poverty Relief Efforts in the Mekong Delta [Pt. 1]](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/xplr-images/premium-content/2021-05-mekong-plus/01desktop1x.webp)
Society
Mothers struggling to afford both food and school fees; husbands forced to move to other provinces to find work; unexpected illnesses that devastate a family's life savings; and children growing up without adequate knowledge of proper health practices: living amidst Saigon’s luxurious skyscrapers and fashionable nightlife, it can be easy to forget about the great poverty that afflicts many Vietnamese, especially in rural areas.
Saigon
The city currently has the lowest budget retention rate of any locality.
Tech
The funding is a result of the success of Axie Infinity, a popular game that involves raising, breeding, collecting, and battling virtual creatures known as Axies.
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.
Vietnam
The wife had been searching for her husband for 13 years after he had wandered off under the spell of a mental illness.
![[Photos] A Game of Trade: Hanoi’s First International Trade Fair Complex](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/urbanisthanoi/article-images/2021/05/palais/00h.jpg)
Hanoi
Hanoi has had many names in its life time; among the lesser-known ones is Ke Cho, which literally means "the market people."
![[Photos] 10 Black-and-White Images of Saigon in 1970](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/2021/05/11/jerry/saigon-1970-00h.jpg)
Saigon
A trip to Saigon in 1970 by photographer Jerry Bosworth yielded a small cache of black-and-white images that vividly depict a city in flux.
Saigon
Vietnam's commercial center draws more people from elsewhere in the country than any other province or city.
Film & TV
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2015 novel The Sympathizer will be getting a TV adaptation directed by Park Chan-wook, the auteur behind the success of The Handmaiden and Oldboy .
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.
Travel
Starting in September, the upstart airline will offer non-stop services from Saigon to San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Podcast
A new Saigoneer Podcast is available now!
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.
Music & Arts
Images of a Japanese manga with scenes of modern Vietnam have won the hearts of Vietnamese netizens recently.
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] Long Xuyen, an Enterprising Mekong Delta Trading Hub in the 1920s](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/2021/05/05/long-xuyen/lx00h.jpg)
Vietnam
Founded on the banks of the Hau River, Long Xuyen began as a trading post and has prospered into one of the Mekong Delta’s major cities today.
Education
What do you picture when you think of a tree? Perhaps a robust redwood, a whimsical willow, or a perfect pine? How long would it take your mind to reach the muddy mangrove?
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.
Vietnam
Companies in the United States and Australia are attempting to patent the famous ST25 and ST24 rice varieties developed in Vietnam.
Resorts
The story of Phu Quoc’s rise from a sparsely populated tropical island to one of Vietnam’s most popular tourist destinations in the last decade is well-known by now.
Podcast
We hope you had a good, safe holiday weekend!
Music & Arts
The much-shared image looks so real that its artist, Lê Đại Phát, was forced to upload a video of him creating it to prove it was in fact a painting.