Việt Nam News

Vietnamese songwriters in Việt Nam and abroad are encouraged to participate in a songwriting contest to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Southern Liberation and National Reunification (April 30, 1975 – April 30, 2025).

Translator Nguyễn Dương Hiếu is an author of sports books focusing on football. His translated books include The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making – and Unmaking –of the World's Greatest Soccer Club; Pele: His Life and Times and Messi vs. Ronaldo: One Rivalry, Two GOATs, and the Era That Remade the World's Game.

More than 150 paintings by 95 painters across Việt Nam are being showcased virtually to raise funds to build houses for needy people in the central province of Quảng Nam.

This place is becoming an ideal destination for tourists, especially young people who want to find a balance in life and enjoy relaxing moments in summer days.

Despite the increase in the frequency of night flights, tourists and travel agencies are not opting for this option due to the limited availability of services at their destinations during nighttime.

The exhibition, with the theme 'Family', aims to bring new, engaging and attractive reading experiences for children to help promote and encourage the sustainable development of reading culture in Việt Nam.

The 2024 Huế Community Áo Dài (long dress) Week was launched on June 24 in the central province of Thừa Thiên - Huế, aiming to preserving and promoting the beauty of the Vietnamese traditional costume.

With an area of about 328ha in the middle of the Red River and about 63.2ha of sandbank, the areas are located in the four districts of Hoàn Kiếm, Ba Đình, Tây Hồ and Long Biên.

Lotus, the flower that symbolises the culture, spirit and character of the Vietnamese people, will be honoured at a festival held in Hà Nội next month.

Even for those worried about bad cholesterol and other cardiovascular problems, pork greaves (locally known as tóp mỡ) cooked by Triều Khúc villagers in Hà Nội, has become a must-try dish.

The new service is expected to enhance experience of both domestic and foreign visitors when coming to Hà Nội, dubbed the land of a thousand years of civilisation.

The 2024 Vietnam Culture and Tourism Festival in the Republic of Korea (RoK) will take place from June 29 to July 3, according to the Việt Nam National Authority of Tourism (VNAT) under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

During the summer, parents from villages and communes with a large Khmer population in Bạc Liêu province eagerly take their children to temples to learn the Khmer script.

An exhibition displaying the top residential, interior and green building designs is on at Diên Hồng Flower Garden, Hoàn Kiếm District.

A conference to promote the sale of highly-regarded Dành Mountain ginseng, in both domestic and international markets, has taken place at Liên Chung Commune, Tân Yên District in the northern province of Bắc Giang.

“Non Dénommé” (Unnamed) is the theme of an art and sound installation exhibition by French artist Tanguy Sevat-Denuet which is opening at the HCM City Southern Women’s Museum.

HCM City’s cultural authorities are working to support private museums as their efforts to building a museum system to boost local tourism.