Weekend LaoDong

Maintaining the color of Dong Ho paintings

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Mr. Nguyen Huu Qua is one of the last artisans of Dong Ho painting village (Thuan Thanh, Bac Ninh), the 500-year-old painting making craft has just been recognized by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage that needs urgent protection.

A place to preserve the memories of scents

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Osmotheque in Versailles, France is the world's largest museum of perfume, where experts have restored thousands of ancient recipes to the original. Here, the traditional scents are revived and stored as part of the cultural heritage of humanity.

Reviving cans, reviving dreams

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The entrepreneurial journey of Luong Thanh Nguyen, a Dong Nai boy born in 1992, began with a very coincident moment: Seeing a hat made from a beer can.

Bringing craft villages to the world

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On December 9, UNESCO included Dong Ho folk painting making craft in the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage that needs urgent protection not only as an honor but also a reminder of protecting traditional values passed down from ancient times...

Oil trees that keep Ao Ba Om

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Standing in front of the almost square rectangular clay block of Ao Ba Om - a water containing works dug completely by hand - in the mind cannot help but admire.

How Joan Gamper gave birth to FC Barcelona?

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Without Joan Gamper's vision and stubbornness, there would probably never have been FC Barcelona.

Technology elevates modern advertising

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Billboards are no longer just a medium for delivering messages, they have become a playground for modern technology. From digital screens, augmented reality (AR) to interactive billboards, technology is reshaping the way brands connect with customers.

The world and the night economy

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When the street lights come on, the night-time economic activities begin to flourish. With appropriate support policies from the government, the night-time economy can bring many economic, cultural and social values ​​to urban areas.

Winter Monsoon

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Every season is windy, not just winter, but the end of the year is the windiest.So much so that saying "monsoon" is the default for winter.
Winter is getting less cold, making those who often reminisce miss the "old days" even more.Remember "The Cold Wind of the Beginning of the Season" (1937) by Thach Lam (1910 - 1942) and hope that there will be no more shortage of people knitting sweaters.
Every season can be nostalgic, but winter is probably the most suitable for remembering, the season of flashback memories.

Then winter came

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Winter has finally arrived with the wind cold enough to require a jacket when going out.Gone are the days of opening the weather app on your phone to check the temperature.Gone are the days of being angry at the weather forecast because every day it says the monsoon is coming but it never comes.

104-year-old author Nguyen Dinh Tu: I know I don't have much time left, so I write day and night

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At the 7th National Book Awards ceremony in 2024, researcher Nguyen Dinh Tu is a special author. At the age of 104, he has won the A prize twice, most recently for the 2-volume book series "Gia Dinh - Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City: Long Mile of History (1698 - 2020)", and in 2018 for the book "French Colonial Regime in Cochinchina (1859 - 1954)".

A person dedicated to preserving the cultural identity of the Muong ethnic group

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Ms. Dinh Thi Kieu Dung (born in 1964, Bo area, Bo town, Kim Boi district, Hoa Binh) is one of the dedicated people, keeping a strong passion for Muong culture.

Flowers bloom over the years

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At the age of 81, artist Nguyen Thi My has just held her 7th solo exhibition, titled “Four Seasons of Flowers”. A theme that has run through a quarter of a century of creation, with a lasting, tireless love that is no less moving, evoking many emotions in viewers.

Understanding Tet for workers

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In recent years, the Trade Union Tet Market has been one of the events that many union members and workers look forward to. Because there, union members and workers, especially union members and workers with difficult circumstances, are supported and can buy quality Tet goods at preferential prices.

Wandering Hanoi at night

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Hanoi is a strange city not only because of its rapid development speed, or the combination and harmony between heritage cultural values ​​and modern cultural features, but also because of its appeal and mystery that is difficult to explain.

Ky Cung River - the river flowing upstream in the border area

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The borderland of Lang Son is a place name that always appears in the pages of history. Its position at the head of the country makes Lang Son like a pair of eyes always looking towards the North. The eyes of Nguyen Trai looking at his father through Muc Nam Quan pass, the eyes of To Thi looking for her husband. In those eyes, there is a hidden stream of tears flowing backwards: Ky Cung, the only river flowing backwards in the North.

Strange Quang noodles

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Hoi An chicken rice, Tam Ky chicken rice, Cao Lau noodles, Banh Vac, Banh Hoa Hong... are the identities of Quang Nam cuisine. But they are just a piece of the puzzle and cannot stand alone and "beat their chest and call their name" like Quang noodles. Only Quang noodles are worthy of being the identity of Quang, with all the characteristics of the people, climate characteristics, natural identity, geography...

The short story collection contains a whole range of mountains and forests

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"The Death of the Bees" is a collection of short stories by Huu Vi, a Thai ethnic writer in Nghe An. The 13 short stories are slices of the lives of ethnic people in the mountains, about the struggle between traditional customs and modernity penetrating the mountains and forests, between the old and the new, between the mountains and the city.

Market life

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Tourists to any new land like to go to the market because the market is a place that shows the development of the local economy and traditional industries.

Former wushu athlete Thuy Hien: Only after retiring did I understand the value of medals

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Wushu athlete Nguyen Thuy Hien challenged herself at the age of 45 when participating in "Sister Who Makes Wave" 2024. She started her martial arts career at the age of 12, soon becoming a potential seed of Vietnamese wushu in the 90s and early 2000s, and was nicknamed "wushu queen" by the public. In 1993, she became the first Vietnamese to win a Gold Medal at the World Wushu Championship at the age of 14.