Two foreign tourists take a selfie at Bui Vien Walking Street. Bui Vien was packed with visitors amid a vibrant atmosphere on Sunday night, when the popular thoroughfare in Ho Chi Minh City’s ...

Authorities are hoping that the work to turn Bui Vien into a walking street will make the popular backpacker area more attractive. More than 50 workers are hastily working on the construction of the ...

Bars, discotheques and beer clubs reopened in Saigon on Monday after nearly eight months, and Bui Vien Street is again buzzing at night. It's 8 p.m. on Monday and Nguyen Minh Hung, 28, a worker at a ...

Bars, shops, and visitors in costume bring Bui Vien alive with Halloween energy, transforming the street into a festive, bustling Halloween haven. Bars and shops along the bustling Bui Vien Street in ...

Thousands of local and foreign tourists flocked to Bui Vien Walking Street in the popular backpacker area of HCM City’s District 1 as it officially welcomed walkers at its grand opening on August 20’s ...

Saigon is back, baby, and it slams you like a whiff of fish sauce in a hot pho as soon as you set foot in the city. Vietnam’s southern metropolis is not only bouncing back post-pandemic, it’s kicking ...

Editor’s Note: Derek Milroy, a Scot, has lived in Ho Chi Minh City for four years. He got married to a Vietnamese wife and is working for an English-language newspaper in the southern city. When I ...

Today, I'm hunting down Vietnam's best street food on Ho Chi Minh's, chaotic Bùi Viện (Biu Vien) street. I sample some snails (ốc), fried corn (Bắp Xào), a coconut ice-cream confection (Kem Xôi Dừa) ...