Việt Nam News

War photographers are truly the documentarians of a turbulent era. These photojournalists are among those recognised by the Ho Chi Minh and State awards this year for their work, which captured the brutality of the war.

The Taiwan Excellence Symphony Concert was a success on the night of May 27 at the Hanoi Opera House, with an enthusiastic response from the audience. Diverse musical colours and deep cultural values are what symphony music lovers appreciated about the event.

Việt Nam should take more actions, including the facilitation of immigration procedures, in an effort to make itself a top destination for international tourists, the Tourism Advisory Board (TAB) has suggested.

The country recently exported the first batch of plums to Hong Kong at VNĐ400,000 (US$17) per kilogramme, nearly double the domestic price.

The 178-minute movie beat 17 other competitors in the Directors’ Fortnight – an independent section held in parallel with the Cannes Film Festival.

Phương Nam Theatre, one of HCM City’s leading private art troupes, will launch a special programme on circus and musical showsat children and young audiences this summer.

Standing vice-chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Trần Thanh Mẫn, former standing vice-chairwoman of the NA, Tòng Thị Phóng, Chairman of the NA’s Ethnic Council Y Thanh Hà Niê K'đăm, and Sơn La Provincial Party Secretary Nguyễn Hữu Đông, participated in the event.

The event “The Golden Colour of Tam Cốc - Tràng An" offers a chance for visitors to admire a 9,500 sq.m painting using rice as material on vast fields of Tam Cốc stretching along the winding Ngô Đồng River.

You may know Đà Nẵng in central Việt Nam with many mesmerising beaches, which are among the top in the world. Yet Đà Nẵng also has another potential to tap – diverse landscapes for filming. The recent Đà Nẵng Asian Film Festival has marked the city on the map of the most exciting filming sites in the world.

These original shots were taken by AFP photographers at past Olympic competitions and at events leading up to the next games to be held in Paris in 2024. 

Season three of the reality show, Top Chef Việt Nam – Culinary Master 2023, with the theme of “Making a mark for Vietnamese Cuisine on the World’s Table” will broadcast every Monday night on VTV3 channel starting from June 12, 2023.

Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Hồ Quang Bửu said Quảng Nam continues to develop green and sustainable tourism products on the basis of the green tourism criteria issued by the locality in late 2021.

The central province of Quảng Nam has an abundance of traditional craft villages, attracting many domestic and overseas tourists and helping the province's tourism recover after COVID. Now the province is focusing on developing these villages and creating links between them to better the services on offer.

A unique collection of Bát Tràng pottery artefacts dating from the 14th to the 20th century are being introduced to the public at the Việt Nam National Museum of History.

I'm fully aware that this opinion is a biased one, but I firmly believe that Việt Nam's culture of two-wheeled travel must be preserved.

A web drama based on Vietnamese tales starring famous theatre actor and director Thành Lộc of HCM City will be released on YouTube in August.

First opened to satisfied homesick Vietnamese in Korea, Cộng 365, a 15-year–old Vietnamese restaurant in Seoul, now has become a cuisine ambassador for our Korean friends. The original taste and unique combination of spices is loved by Korean families, and of course, Vietnamese missing the taste of home.