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There have growb a lot of legends around the Vietnamese New Year celebrations. Today we say good-bye for one week to the kitchen god Ông Tao or Tao Quan as he is also called, to go to heaven. After his appointment for reporting to the Jade Emperor he will return...

In 2009, a census was held in Vietnam. All more than 22 million households in the country were interviewed, among others also for education and the housing situation. The result is a thick book with nearly 900 pages of statistics, tables and figures, sorted by provinces and districts, cities and...

This will be my last blog post on this platform. Next Tuesday Blog.de will disappear during the day. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our readers for more than 3.5 million page views and nearly 14,000 comments since April of 2007. But somehow it has to...

Actually the Ngày nhà Giáo (Teacher’s Day) on November 20, is a very nice tradition. Unfortunately, today the character of this day has changed significantly since its inception in the year 1982. Even during my own schooldays in Hanoi (1998-2001) we have only competed to see who brought our class...

Angkor Wat seen from the mountain Phnom Bakheng. Cathrin’s Blog: Zwischen Traditionen und Moderne

…schools often are nothing more than shacks without electricity or sanitation. Cathrin’s Blog: Zwischen Traditionen und Moderne

The Zen monastery Tây Thiên is located in the district of Tam Đảo province Vinh Phuc Province, about 85 kilometers northwest of the center of Hanoi in a beautiful landscape, which is surmounted by the three mountains Thach Ban Sunglasses (1.388m), Thiên Thị (1.375m) and Phu Nghĩa (1.400m). Together with...