Việt Nam News

Thirty acrylic-on-canvas paintings by Vietnamese and Indian artists are on display at an exhibition of the Việt Nam-India International Artistic Camp 2022 at Văn Lang University in HCM City until Sunday (November 13).

The village, which is about 250km from the centre of Hà Nội, is located at an altitude of 1,000m above sea level on the top of a distant mountain, covered with clouds all year round..

Veteran writer Lê Lựu, author of many acclaimed novels in Vietnamese literature, has passed away on Wednesday at the age of 81 after years of illnesses.

Việt Nam National Opera & Ballet (VNOB) will perform with a large chorus on November 12 and 13 at Hà Nội Opera House. 

Entitled Sành (Terracotta), the display introduces to the public 80 works by five artists, all of whom have participated in many prestigious exhibitions at home and abroad and won many awards.

Eighteen Vietnamese and international fashion designers and brands will take part in the Aquafina Việt Nam International Fashion Week (AVIFW) Fall/Winter 2022 held in Hà Nội this month after a three-year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Hanoi Festival of Creative Design 2022, themed "Design and Technology", will take place in various locations in the capital city from November 11 to 18.

The private Lạc Long Quân Drama Troupe is offering a music programme targeting primary and secondary students in HCM City.

Bà Của Đỗ Đỏ (Đỗ Đỏ's Grandmother) is one of the Vietnamese movies competing in the Short Film category at the 6th Hanoi International Film Festival 2022 (HANIFF).   In September, the animation won the Golden Kite from the Việt Nam Cinematography Association 2022. Việt Nam News' contributor Thảo Vũ speaks with the animation's scriptwriter Đàm Thùy Dương about the movie.

Tràng An Heritage Connecting - Ninh Bình Festival will have the participation of the Laos art troupe from Udomxay Province and about 70 beauty queens of Miss Tourism World beauty pageant from around the world. They will perform at the opening ceremony and the street festival programme.

Experts believe the engravings on these stone blocks are highly detailed and resemble terraced fields, which are similar to ancient carved stone blocks found in Lao Chải Commune, Mù Cang Chải District in 2015, 2020, and 2021.

Pork jowl, which is a cut of pork from a pig’s cheek, has been used to process different kinds of food in many countries across the world. In Việt Nam, people have used this small part of the pig to make various delicacies.

Nearly 800 international and Vietnamese delegates from over 50 countries and territories are expected to attend the opening of the 6th Hà Nội International Film Festival (HANIFF VI) slated for today at Hà Nội Cultural Friendship Palace

Written and directed by Minh two years ago, the film is about human relations during busy life in an urban area. The characters include a rural shoeshine boy, a Hà Nội-sidewalk barber, an old couple and an old musician who teaches a choir of blind children.

The gold bowl of Emperor Khải Định (1885-1925) has been sold for €680,000 (US$676,000) at auction by Million in Paris.

About 50 pieces by 40 artists from many provinces will be on display. They are diverse in content, style and materials like oil paint, lacquer, dó (poonah) paper or wood carving, but similar in expressing the artists’ affection for Vietnamese culture and heritage.

HCM CITY – The Việt Nam Art Photo Contest and Exhibition 2022, highlighting the best art photography from around the country, was opened at the HCM Fine Art Museum on November 4 by the Department of Fine Arts, Photography and Exhibition, under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Organised by the Việt Nam Theatre of Contemporary Art in collaboration with the Digimarketing JSC Company, the concert will take place at Mỹ Đình National Stadium on December 12 and will be broadcast live on VTV.