My preceding post was about a collection of poems by an 18th-century Vietnamese concubine, Ho Xuan Huong, who wrote in an ideographic script a thousand years old that’s now nearly extinct in Vietnam.

Experts say that the Vietnamese people's contribution is unfairly ignored in exclusively crediting two European missionaries with creating the Quoc Ngu writing system. The fact that all credit for ...

Vietnamese Catholics and intellectuals have commended foreign missionaries and ancestors for developing the national writing system that helped spread Catholicism around the country. Some 200 people, ...

The defunct Thanh Chiem Palace (1602-1883) is seen as a cradle of romanised Vietnamese script, and the place was linked with Portuguese missionary Francisco de Pina (1585-1625) – the founder of the ...

Thanh Chiem bastion in Quang Nam province has been officially recognized as a national relic. It’s considered the second capital of Vietnam after Hue and the political, military, economic and cultural ...