As French President Emmanuel Macron visits Vietnam, becoming the first leader from his country to travel there in a decade, calligraphy students in Hanoi are learning more about their French colonial ...

When the Avignon-born Jesuit Alexandre de Rhodes published the first Portuguese-Vietnamese-Latin dictionary under his own ...

Hanoi: At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal ...

The history of romanized Vietnamese, or Quoc Ngu, links the arrival of the first Christian missionaries, colonization by the ...

In Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen practices calligraphy, writing Vietnam's modern script—a legacy of French rule.

Calligraphy by a South Korean independence hero, created while awaiting execution for assassinating a Japanese leader, is breaking new auction records in Seoul, as the country's ultra-rich seek to ...

This is an all-time favorite of Vietnamese kids, including me when I was growing up. We eat it with white rice and an egg. Our signature recipe for the beef, which simply includes Maggi ...

The latest trend to add to the mix? Alphabet walks. The idea is simple. Once you set out for your trek, you start looking around for things that match each letter of the alphabet in order.

This is Banh Mi Babe, Nirmala Vanamali’s take on Vietnamese food. Do not expect sushi, gobi manchurian, or chicken 65 here; the menu remains firmly and unapologetically Vietnamese. In a time ...

An estimated 2.3 million people in the United States identified as Vietnamese in 2023, according to estimates published by the U.S. Census Bureau. 1 Vietnamese Americans are the fourth-largest Asian ...

Fifty years ago today, as the communist North Vietnamese army took control of Saigon, 16-year-old Chinh Nguyen and his family fled on boats from their homeland. The teenager and seven of his ...

Tinh Trinh was 21 years old on a barge in the South China Sea, floating away from the Vietnamese coast with his wife and family. The North Vietnamese army had just begun its full-scale assault on ...