Việt Nam News

Summer has come again and so have plays and activities that entertain and educate children.

A new ecommerce platform is inviting Vietnamese music industry stakeholders to market and sell their creations on it.

One of the best ways to see Hanoi is after the sun sets. More and more tours catering for domestic visitors are taking place in the evening on weekends to give people an unusual twist on the places they visit. And there are plans in place to offer the same night time excursions to international tourists very soon.

The first phase of the Public Bike Sharing System – an innovative public bike-sharing scheme by the International Co-operation Agency of Germany (GIZ), tech firm Vietsoftpro and the central provincial people’s committee – has been launched in Huế City with an aim of developing a bicycle transportation plan for 2021-2026.

A concert entitled Classical Wonderland will be held by Việt Nam Youth Music Institute (VYMI) on July 2 at Hà Nội Opera House. VYMI aims to inspire young people to build lasting relationships with music, especially classical music, through multi-experience programmes, educational concerts, workshops and regular music appreciation courses.

One of the most famous poems by great 18th-century Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Du (1766-1820) has been released by the Kim Đồng Publishing House in the form of an art book.

Seven years after stunning the Britain's Got Talent’s crowd with the hit “Dancing on my own” that received a golden buzzer from Simon Cowell, Calum Scott’s sensational vocal has reached Việt Nam with the music video “Heaven” featuring Vietnamese singer Hoàng Duyên.

The Polish embassy in Hà Nội will organise an exhibition of landscape paintings by a Polish-Vietnamese artist in the city's centre from June 14-18.

In recent years, cinnamon has become an important crop with a high value in Văn Yên. It has evolved into a valuable raw resource for the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and craft sectors.