Việt Nam News

 The southern region’s largest exhibition this year, featuring 200 paintings and sculptures, is now on display at the Tiền Giang Conference Centre in Cần Thơ City. 

Since its official launch, Pokémon Go, one of the first mobile games to offer an augmented-reality experience, has taken the world by storm and Việt Nam is no exception.

After much anticipation, Pokémon Go officially launched in Việt Nam on August 6.

German film about Việt Nam’s Agent Orange victims nominated for Emmy Award

Đặng Nhật Minh’s 1997 account of the beginning of the Vietnamese uprising against the French colonialists in Hà Nội Winter 1946 has long been a favourite among Vietnamese audiences and foreigners inclined to seek such a film out.

A contemporary art collection of 12 sculptures created by six Asian rising artists has been presented to Hà Nội's art lovers at the Green Palm Gallery.

The California-based publisher Word Palace Press plans to publish an English-Vietnamese edition of a poetry collection by Vietnamese writer Trần Quang Quý at the end of next year.

Korean singer Song Joo Young, a student in the linguistics faculty at the HCM City University of Pedagogy, has released his first music video (MV) after two years of living in the city.

 Young amateur writers at home and abroad are encouraged to participate in a writing contest launched by the HCM City-based Saigon Books company this week.

Film director Nguyễn Hoàng Điệp has received a congratulatory letter from French Culture Minister Audrey Azoulay, announcing that she has been awarded the Knight of Arts and Letters title.

The classical ballets Serenade and Bolero created by the late Russian-American choreographer George Balanchine will be performed at the HCM City Opera House on August 19 and October 19.

King Tự Đức, the longest reigning monarch of the Nguyễn Dynasty, was brought to life this week in a new stage play.

The MTV Video Music Awards will honour pop diva Rihanna with its Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, which recognises an artist’s cultural impact, the network said on Thursday.

Sơn La Province is about 200km from Hà Nội to the northeast, at an altitude of over 1,800m above sea level. The province is famous for quite a few landscapes such as Mộc Châu Plateau, Dải Yếm Waterfall and the Đà River tourist cluster. But it is not all about Sơn La’s beauty.

Thai Minister of Tourism and Sports, Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul, believes that there is still room for Việt Nam and Thailand to grow and attract tourists with different tourism purposes.

Award-winning actress Lan Hương charmed spectators at Việt Nam National Drama Theatre with her role in the Tai Biến (Accident) play on Wednesday night.

Dozens of art troupes in HCM City are presenting special programmes to celebrate Vu Lan, the Buddhist festival held during the seventh lunar month every year, which shows gratitude to motherly love.  

Ernst Neizvestny, a Russian-born sculptor who publicly debated modern art with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and went on to create his final memorial, died in the US on Tuesday.