Harvesting vegetables at night
30/01/2023 15:13
With the vegetable growers, taking care and harvesting vegetables, especially the year-round-harvested ones on the rainy days and Tet days are the same. They always leave their homes from 11:00 p.m., and come back on around 2:00 a.m., on the day after with the sleepless faces and calloused hands covered in mud.
Warming hearts with real experience
26/01/2023 14:33
In a drizzle and the chilly cold of Tet, my whole family sits around the table and plays Hue Art Memory Cards. The children laugh with delight as they drew two identical cards with beautiful royal motifs. Such feeling of gathering with the family on the first day of the new year is so cozy...
Old careers at the market
16/01/2023 10:09
This afternoon, in a program with VOH, Hoang Dung, an editor at Ho Chi Minh City People’s Broadcasting Station suggested the topic about old careers. I then talked about the career of mending raincoats at Dong Ba market.
Fashion from carved wood
05/01/2023 14:18
Wooden dragon shoes, rings, bracelets, necklaces... are the fashion lines of Fashion4Freedom (F4F) - a social enterprise in Hue City in the sphere of non-profit activities. It is not widely known that this hard material makes hundreds of high-class fashion works present on 4 continents worldwide.
Harvesting vegetables at night
With the vegetable growers, taking care and harvesting vegetables, especially the year-round-harvested ones on the rainy days and Tet days are the same. They always leave their homes from 11:00 p.m., and come back on around 2:00 a.m., on the day after with the sleepless faces and calloused hands covered in mud.