Việt Nam News

Seven years ago,  Megumi Kawada, a Japanese-English freelance translator from Kyoto, followed her heart to Hà Nội.

IDECAF Stage, HCM City's leading private drama theatre, is staging a children’s puppet play about a farmer family that led Vietnamese in their fight against aggressors.    

Saigon Chamber Music will organise a concert at the HCM City Opera House on November 5 to raise funds to buy wheelchairs for the disadvantaged.

Several dozen local and expatriate musicians and artists will perform at the Saigon Reggae Festival:Garden Reunion at Indika Saigon on October 30.

Artist Bridget March of the UK will showcase a collection of her new watercolour paintings featuring windows of urban Việt Nam at VinGallery next week.

Hugh Laurie, the British comedian and star of The Night Manager, House and numerous movies, cemented his place among entertainment's elite with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

Sole surviving Bee Gee Barry Gibb is keen to make music with US pop star Justin Timberlake as he pursues a solo career after the death of his brothers.

The Russian National Tourist Office, Visit Russia Asia, has introduced new travel destinations in different regions of the Russian Federation to Vietnamese tourist agents during a workshop recently.

Officials in charge of cultural affairs from francophone countries in Asia Pacific gathered yesterday in Hà Nội to discuss policies and strategies to develop cultural industries and promote cultural diversity.

Six national culture days will be held in 2017 in central Lâm Đồng, northern Tuyên Quang, Sơn La and southern Bạc Liêu provinces to promote national and regional cultures.

The second Asia-Europe New Music Festival brought together in Hà Nội some 200 musicians and artists from 30 countries and territories. Eleven big concerts took stage featuring the best and latest compositions by Vietnamese and international composers.

Morning dew in the Central Highlands City of Đà Lạt. — VNA/VNS Photo Vũ Đức Lợi

Ngọc Duyên was crowned Miss Global Beauty Queen 2016 and Nam Em was awarded gold medal in the Miss Photogenic category at Miss Earth 2016 on Monday. 

A bamboo building inside Mường Museum, 80 kilometres west of Hà Nội, has just been awarded a silver prize in the Cultural Architecture category by the organisers of the American Architecture Prize 2016.

 Photographs of Việt Nam’s heritage and natural beauty are on display at an exhibition that opened on Sunday in Phan Thiết City in the southern province of Bình Định.

 It took just seven days for Wizard of Oz nostalgics to raise more than $300,000 in a crowdfunding drive to restore Dorothy's iconic slippers to their ruby red glory.

 Seventeen plays attributed to William Shakespeare were written in collaboration with other playwrights, according to an edition of his works coming out this month that uses "big data" to reveal the mixed authorship.

Circus artists and brothers Giang Quốc Cơ and Giang Quốc Nghiệp will entertain audiences in HCM City with an extravagant show at the Opera House next week to celebrate their 15-year career.