Việt Nam News

Rally Indochina is Southeast Asia’s largest annual charity motorcycle adventure to raise money for the Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation to combat trafficking of children in Việt Nam. This is the rally’s sixth year and the first time the route will head north from Hà Nội.

A street parade comprising art troupes from several countries, including Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Cuba, was part of the Huế Festival that is currently underway. 

A class on traditional culture of the Bố Y ethnic minority group in the northern province of Lào Cai will be held in the locality from May 11 to 13.

“Worth watching,” “interesting” and “well-organised” were the words the audience used to describe the ongoing international kite festival at Ecopark, some 13km southeast of Hà Nội’s city centre.

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The biggest-ever kite festival in the north is going on at Ecopark, a new urban residential area in the northern province of Hưng Yên, some 13km from Hà Nội’s city centre.

The Áo dài fashion show, one of the major events at the ongoing biennial Huế Festival, was held in Huế yesterday evening

Huế Festival 2016, which kicked of last night, offered visitors many traditional cultural performances.

A ring-tailed lemur is captured for sale in Mai Châu District in the northern Hòa Bình Province. Some sell them as pets or even as food despite a wildlife trade ban. -- VNS Photo Việt Thanh

 The HCM City Book Distribution JSC (Fahasa) opened its Fahasa Hạnh Thông Tây Bookshop at the Lotte Mart Gò Vấp Business Centre in HCM City’s Gò Vấp District on Thursday.

The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera will stage the opera The Magic Flute in German over the first weekend of May at the Opera House in HCM City.

Over 200 dancers will stage a flash mob bikini performance tonight during the opening ceremony of a beach festival at Eastern Park in Đà Nẵng, which lasts until May 5.

Several of Vietnam’s top singers will gather to perform at a special concert to pay tribute to the famous composer and songwriter Thanh Tùng, who many consider as the father of Vietnamese pop music.

With lights, dance, music and fireworks, the biennial Huế Festival opened yesterday evening, showcasing a variety of cultural and craft shows performed by artists and artisans from Vietnamese localities and other countries.

Red snappers (cá hồng) caught at Long Hải seafood market in the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu – VNS Photo Việt Thanh

Cô Gái Đến Từ Hôm Qua (Girl from Yesterday), a novel by best-sellering author Nguyễn Nhật Ánh will be adapted to film by director Phan Gia Nhật Linh.

 A photo exhibition has opened at the HCM City Book Pedestrian Street on Nguyễn Văn Bình Street in District 1 to celebrate the 41st anniversary of Reunification Day.  

Paris-born French-American violinist Stéphane Trần Ngọc will perform for the first time in Việt Nam the Violin Concerto in D major by Erich Wolfgang Korngold at “A Night Of American Music” concert hosted by the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) at the Opera House today at 8pm.