VietExplorer2026

This is the first documentary about Vietnam’s coffee culture and philosophy, produced by Warner Bros. Discovery in collaboration with Vietnamese coffee chain Trung Nguyen Legend. Discovery spent over a year studying and launching the documentary. They spent over one month filming and interviewing many people in Vietnam, China, the United States, and the United Kingdom, among others. The post-production was completed in two months before the documentary was broadcast in Australia and New Zealand. It will be later on air in Vietnam, the Republic of Korea, Japan, China, India, and other Asian countries and territories on the Discovery Channel on November 30 this week. ‘The Tao of Coffee’ offers a multi-dimensional, practical, and objective perspective on Vietnam’s coffee with statistics and opinions from Vietnamese and international experts, coffee farmers, agricultural engineers, and consumers. The documentary features the potential and strength of Vietnam’s coffee sector and ...

Dinh Tien Dung, secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, urged local authorities on April 18 to start the restoration plan for Kinh Thien Palace in 2026. Visitors at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel in Hanoi. Photo: Pham Hung/The Hanoi Times The Hanoi Party chief said the plan must be in line with science and history, taking into account the advice of domestic and international experts. He said the restoration of the Kinh Thien Palace would greatly impact the capital’s tourism and cultural industries. “Drawing up the restoration plan must be completed by the end of 2025 so that construction can start the following year,” the official said at a meeting on heritage preservation. Hanoi also plans to spend VND14 trillion (US$596.2 million) on the reconstruction and conservation of heritage sites in the city. In addition to Kinh Thien Palace, city authorities plan to build the temple of Ngo Quyen, the Vietnamese monarch who ended over 1,000 years of Chinese rule in 938, an...