Non-native sports such as hockey, rugby, cricket and climbing are becoming more and more popular in Vietnam thanks to the love of those sports by foreigners living in the country. One example is the Saigon Rugby 10’s competition. The third edition of the Saigon Rugby 10’s was recently hosted at RMIT University in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, and attracted nearly 400 participants that were divided into 16 teams. Outside the pitch, stalls selling jerseys and other merchandise attracted the attention of onlookers. Rugby might be new to the Vietnamese people, but Saigon Rugby 10’s has managed to capture their attention. “Lots of foreigners living and working in Vietnam love rugby,” said Peter Holdsworth, a British businessman and head of the organizing committee of the Saigon Rugby 10’s event. “We are hosting this competition because we want rugby enthusiasts here to have a playground. “We also want Vietnamese people to come here, watch it, learn more about it, and have a good time with it. “That is why we are hosting this event professionally.” Rugby is not the only foreign sport turning heads in Vietnam. The Vietnam Hockey Festival at the Thuan Dao Industrial Park in the southern province of Long An was held over two days in November 2017, and was a huge success. Players during a game at the Hockey Festival. Photo: Tuoi Tre The event was smaller than Saigon Rugby 10’s, but was in its tenth edition, and has also attracted more and more participants throughout… [Read full story]
In recent years, the number of foreign models working in Vietnam has been on the rise. In TV advertisements, magazines and fashion shows, Western models in particular are in high demand by local and foreign companies alike. “There are now about fifty Western models working in Vietnam ,” says Kimberly Nguyen, a casting agent for professional foreign models working in Vietnam . “Their appearance more or less adds a new taste and creates variety in Vietnam .” The emergence of Western models in Vietnam is not only a sign of the changing fashion scene in Southeast Asia, it is also…... [read more]
The number of foreign tourists arriving in Vietnam has been rising steadily, but new data has revealed that they are spending less. The average foreign visitor in Vietnam spent $1,283 in 2004, well below the amount they spent in Thailand ($1,865) and Singapore ($2,670). Shopping made up the largest slice of the pie in Vietnam, accounting for 16.6 percent of total spending, compared to 19.6 percent in Thailand and 22.3 percent in Singapore, according to the General Statistics Office. A survey conducted by the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) in 2014 found that foreigners spent on average $1,114 in…... [read more]
Tourism contributes around five percent to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), but the industry is lagging far behind in this field and has hardly invested soundly in it to make any significant difference. Ton That Hoa, general secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Association, said the country does not even have a theater where Vietnamese artists can perform traditional music programs for foreign tourists. All other Asian countries have at least a 1000 seat capacity theater for musical programs to entertain foreign visitors. A theater is not only a place to introduce a country’s culture, history and…... [read more]
by Le Ha Software programmers and testers at work in the Da Nang Software Park. The profession has been gaining popularity in recent years. — VNA/VNS Photo Van Son HA NOI — Since its first introduction in Viet Nam during 2005, software testing has become a hot profession, but both the number and quality of testers remain inadequate, according to Le Anh Tuan, project manager of SDT Software. Software testing provides stakeholders with information about the quality of products or services. Test techniques include the process of executing a programme or application with the intent of finding software errors or…... [read more]
(Cinet)- The water puppet is a unique cultural creativity of wet rice-grown people in the Red River Delta for thousands of years. The Vietnam water puppet has not only preserves but also promotes its values of culture and arts strongly. In the integration era, the water puppet has special fascination as a messenger of arts popularizing Vietnam culture in the world. So far, the Vietnam water puppet has been developed in many Asian and European countries. The Vietnam water puppet is also invited to join international water puppet Festivals as an official member. The Central water puppet Theatre performs a…... [read more]
