Việt Nam News

Diverse activities will be organised to mark Việt Nam Family Day 2016 (June 28) and praise the strong bond that exists in families.

First-time director Hồng Ánh is making a motion picture about young Vietnamese people set in the chaotic reality of a multi-cultural society.

Glitterbeat, a branch of the German-based company Glitterhouse Records, has released a new album in Europe that features traditional Vietnamese music.

Over 100 international buyers and 28 foreign media and tourism bloggers have registered to participate at the Beach Leisure and MICE Travel Mart Đà Nẵng from June 23-26.

The Yale Alumni Chorus will hold a concert tour in Hà Nội and HCM City next week as part of its 12th international tour.

New 3D books for children, issued by foreign publishing houses, are now available at bookstores around the country.

Lotuses grow besides a rice field in the northern province of Ninh Bình. – VNS Photo Trương Vị

Virginia Morris is a security and defence analyst and author based in the UK. Her research specialty is asymmetric war and terrorism. Morris cycled the Hồ Chí Minh Trail with her husband and children in 2015.

The Craic On Irish festival, featuring cultural exchange, sport, music and dance, will be held on Saturday to increase mutual understanding and friendly relations between Việt Nam and Ireland.

A series of pictorial books entitled Children’s Rights has been translated into Vietnamese and published nationwide.

A Thai traditional puppet show will be performed at the Hanoi Opera House tomorrow as one of the activities celebrating 45 years of ties between Việt Nam and Thailand.

An art exhibition titled Cảm hứng Việt Nam (Inspiring Việt Nam) by young Russian painter Sasha Fishler is on display at LIVINCollective in the southern province of Khánh Hòa’s Nha Trang City.

Bình Thuận Province’s Phan Thiết City has opened a night market in Phú Thuỷ Ward, the first night market in the south central province.  

Rạch Giá City in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kiên Giang has opened a tourism information centre on Nguyễn Công Trứ Street in Vĩnh Thạnh Ward to serve local and foreign tourists.

The 40-ha botanical garden of the Phong Nha – Kẻ Bàng National Park is an attractive eco-tourism destination in the central province of Quảng Bình with 500 plant species, including 133 rare and precious ones.

The second Mông (H’mông) Ethnic Cultural Festival will be held in Đồng Văn District in the northern province of Hà Giang in early October.

The south-western region is well-known for its charming water scenery, so it was not so hard to pick a place to enjoy the weekend.

Painter Nguyễn Tư Nghiêm, one of Vietnamese greatest artists, passed away yesterday at 10.30am. He was 94. The famous painter had a stroke earlier last month and had been hospitalised ever since.