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Saigon
With daily new cases in the thousands, Saigon has imposed additional levels of movement restrictions on top of the most severe lockdown since the pandemic began.
Music & Arts
I’m writing this to remember another Covid summer. Today, Saigon continues the second round of social distancing.
Tech
Outside In: The Ultimate Friendship Test is a new Steam game that was developed by a team of independent game designers from Hanoi. The challenging game revolves around a war against a deadly virus. Playing the game, friends can gauge their compatibility by getting through the challenges together.
Vietnam
The lazy eyes, large hands and exaggerated bosom of the poorly depicted Frozen character threatened to ruin Sapa's natural beauty, according to critics.
Health
What will this mean for Vietnam's sluggish vaccination campaign?
Quãng 8
I set up an interview with An Tran at the most awkward time: 11pm on a Sunday.
Music & Arts
Having lived and worked in Saigon for two and a half years, Daniel Ansel Tingcungco, a Filipino artist, created a collection of paintings illustrating 100 beloved views of the city. The project, titled "100 Views of Saigon," was completed after one year and four months and is available to the public on the artist’s Instagram page.
Saigon
While mounting pressure on local supermarkets has started to ease, there are many new avenues in Saigon where fresh produce is available.
Film & TV
Nguyễn Lương Hằng is Zoom-ing in from Austin, Texas, to a town in northern Italy because she wants to make a film in her native Vietnam. Welcome to the world of independent Asian cinema.
Music & Arts
Self-taught graphic designer Michael Angle is passionate about Vietnam’s history and wants to spread that love to everybody.
Vietnam
Any plans to combine sparsely populated locales will, however, not happen anytime soon, as significant research and time for public input is needed.
Saigon
Will this attempt at another public naming contest go wrong or remain wholesome this time?
Saigon
Amid Saigon’s most devastating outbreak of COVID-19, the city’s various economic sectors have pivoted to supporting frontline workers in their enduring efforts against the epidemic.
![[Photos] Travel to a Bustling Singapore in 1979 Through Doi Kuro's Lens](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/2021/07/19/singapore/80sSG_SGNR1m.webp)
Asia
While some Southeast Asian cities were completely unrecognizable from their current self in 1979, Singapore at that time was already on its way to becoming the region's most developed location.
Vietnam
19/12 Street was once a mass burial ground for those who died in the National Resistance against France in 1946. The event shaped the history of the city and the relationship that thrived for 71 years between locals, the street and chợ Âm phủ (Hell Market).
Music & Arts
At the heart of Hanoi is Hồ Hoàn Kiếm with a legend that has been told countless times.
Film & TV
Another Vietnamese film gets lauded overseas.
Music & Arts
As one of the few Vietnamese nationals to have been granted the title of International Watercolor Master, young artist Đoàn Quốc is constantly pushing the frontiers of his creativity to paint a new path for Vietnam’s growing watercolor art community.
![[Photos] In Quang Ninh, a Dilapidated Park Receives New Lease on Life](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/2021/07/15/arc/c5m.webp)
Architecture
The 1990s Quang Ninh Park was nearly abandoned in need of a revamp to attract local exercisers and loafers alike.
Music & Arts
“Ảo Ảnh," or “ Illusion ," an independent exhibition by the artist duo Lê Brothers, will be running at Mơ Art Space from July 18. The Quang Binh-born, Hue-based artists — Lê Ngọc Thanh and Lê Đức Hải — first debuted this project at the Le Ba Dang Art Center in 2020.
Sports
If recent developments in Vietnam’s COVID-19 outbreak have dampened your spirit, here’s a wholesome pick-me-up.
Society
“I am a social activist,” Lương Thế Huy says when asked to introduce himself to Saigoneer. It is hard to imagine a different answer, or Huy in a different role, when he has spent a decade pursuing this path.
Travel
She is not famous but has silently become a part of Hoi An’s cultural beauty for years.
Architecture
A number of architecture projects in Vietnam have made the list of finalists or even won prizes at the A+Awards organized by Architizer .
