Five veteran cải lương (reformed opera) artists will bring an ancient tale to stage to celebrate Christmas in HCM City next week.

On the occasion of Qatar’s National Day, Ambassador Mohamed Ismail MH Al-Emadi reflects on national achievements in different fields and celebrates Qatar’s diplomatic relationship between Qatar and Việt Nam.

Finnish conductor Kalle Kuusava will lead a concert celebrating the 100th anniversary of Finland at the HCM City Opera House on December 19.

Many people die from infections caused by resistant bacteria. The culprits include Escherichia Coli, Klebsiella Pneumoniae and Staphylococcus Aureus. Whenever antibiotics are used in excess or in bad conditions, bacteria can mutate and become difficult to eradicate.  If nothing is done, there will be no recovery for ordinary infections - and low-risk surgical operations could become life-threatening.

A voyager who dares to dream, dares to make dreams come true, who owns true patience and keeps to his chosen path. That’s how people talk about Trần Đặng Đăng Khoa. Right now, the 30-year-old is on his way around the world, travelling by motorbike.

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Hà Nội, Hải Phòng and their vicinities were heavily bombarded in an aerial raids in December 1972, known in Việt Nam as "Điện Biên Phủ in the Air” and in the West as the 1972 Christmas bombing.

Noted water puppeteer Phan Thanh Liêm has just opened his second miniature theatre for water puppetry at his private home in Hà Nội’s Long Biên District.

A photo exhibition in marking the 50th publishing anniversary of the novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Nobel Prize winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), will be held at the central city’s Fine Arts Museum on December 18-30th.