Việt Nam News

A ceremony to set up a cây nêu (New Year’s tree) on the 23rd of the last lunar month (January 20) will kick off a series of activities discovering Vietnamese traditional Tết (Lunar New Year festival) at the Việt Nam Museum of Ethnology.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Weeknd and the Pixies will play the inaugural Paris edition of Lollapalooza as the longstanding US alternative culture festival expands.

Britain's prestigious Tate institution, which runs four of the country's best known art galleries, announced on Tuesday it would have its first female director with the appointment of Maria Balshaw.

British conductor Simon Rattle on Tuesday called for a new concert hall in London to make the city more competitive on the international music scene, as he takes up his baton at the London Symphony Orchestra.

Various traditional customs of the Vietnamese Lunar New Year will be featured this Sunday, January 22, at So Village’s communal house on the western outskirts of Hà Nội.

A Botanical-Animal Museum has opened at the Sài Gòn Zoo and Botanical Gardens (Sài Gòn Zoo) in HCM City.

The management board of the Hỏa Lò Prison museum yesterday received memorabilia from the family of late US Commander Walter Eugene Wilber.

The life of the Vietnamese diaspora in Russia will be reflected in a new soap opera produced by Việt Nam Television titled Moscow – Mùa Thay Lá (Moscow – Season of Falling Leaves).

A newly-launched artbook entitled 5 Mùa (Five Seasons) features more than 100 paintings selected from entries to an online painting contest held recently by the Kim Đồng Publishing House. Contest organisers receive nearly 490 paintings from 296 artists, including amateurs and professionals in Việt Nam and from abroad. Artist Khoa Lê, one of the contest jurors and organisers, speaks about the contest and potential of the artbook.

Senior lead singers of quan họ singing (a Vietnamese folk music style) in Diềm Village in Bắc Ninh City. — VNS Photo Vị Thanh

The well-known girl band T-Ara of South Korea will perform at a music festival in HCM City tonight.  

There are no neighbours and the views are stunning, and if you can live without heating, running water, electricity and internet, then why not apply for a job as a hermit?

The Sundance Film Festival opens in Utah on Thursday, promising to set the agenda for independent cinema and starting the 2018 Oscars buzz a month before this year’s statuettes are awarded.

A 3D virtual military museum has been opened on Côn Đảo Island by the Việt Nam Military History Museum and the Political Department of Military Zone No 7.

Painter Thành Chương has completed 60 paintings of roosters to celebrate the Lunar New Year of the Rooster. Using different materials, such as lacquer, oil on canvas and watercolours, Chương uses the roosters to reflect society and his own philosophy of life.

Việt Nam’s biggest traditional holiday, known as Tết, is approaching very near us. Foodwise would like to tell you most tasty and delicious Tết dishes cooked by locals in the country’s three regions.

Reese Witherspoon, fed up with Hollywood gender bias, is calling for an end to the practice of handing excellent actresses only "thankless roles."

One of the Pacific's last traditional navigators, or wave pilots, has died in Majuro, but not before passing many of his skills onto a younger generation of Marshall Islanders.