An ancient colossus uncovered in Cairo last week may have depicted the famed pharaoh Psammetich I, Egypt’s antiquities ministry said on Thursday.

At the sight of the threatening orange and blue bacteria, the students screamed, “Get away! Get away!”

On the occasion of Ireland’s St. Patrick’s Day on March 17, Việt Nam News presents an article written by Cáit Moran, Irish Ambassador.

A model of Mông Phụ Village Gate, one of the unique architectural structures in the ancient village of Đường Lâm on the outskirt of Hà Nội, was presented to Hà Nội Museum at a ceremony yesterday.

Vietnamese and German artists will perform together in a show featuring Italian Songbook by Hugo Wolf in Hà Nội on March 17 &18.

Movie “The Third Wife” by Vietnamese director Nguyễn Phương Anh recently won the G2D Post-Production Award (Work In Progress Laboratory Project) at the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF).

What on earth!

Residents of Thống Nhất Village, Lập Thạch District in the northern province of Vĩnh Phúc are famous all over the country for a unique favourite food – the ngói soil. The soil, which is as white as chalk, is found after digging the land dozens of metres deep. The soil is washed, dried in sunlight, flavoured with smoke from fresh sim leaves. The soil has a special smell and taste after it is cooked. At present, the family of Khổng Thị Biên, 80, is the only one in the village to process the special food daily. — VNA/VNS Photo Thu Hiền

The New York Philharmonic, which has been treading water financially, tapped Wednesday the well-regarded head of the Los Angeles Philharmonic as president in a startling shake-up for the classical music world.

Spain’s Prado art museum, home to masterpieces by Francisco Goya and Diego Velazquez, on Wednesday appointed Italian Renaissance specialist Miguel Falomir as its director as the world-renowned gallery nears its bicentenary.