Việt Nam News

Blurb: The annual Vietnam International Travel Mart is in its full swing in downtown Hanoi with over 450 booths by tourism businesses, localities and foreign tourism authorities. The event aims to promote exchanges between businesses as well as inbound and outbound tourism activities. Thousands of people are expected to visit the site to grab best deals.

A forum on HCM City’s film industry was organised as part of  the first Hồ Chí Minh City International Film Festival 2024 (HIFF 2024) from April 6-13.

Bắc Giang Province will keep eyes on planning and developing tourist areas and attractions in the area to attract both local and international friends.

Themed “Green Transition for Sustainable Development”, the event will include various workshops, MOU signing ceremonies and cooperation exchanges between businesses and localities. There are also plenty of deals on offer from tourism providers showcasing domestic and international destinations.

Fireworks, drone light show and contests are among Hà Nội's planned activities to celebrate the 70th Liberation Day anniversary this year.

Hà Nội, in its essence, is a testament to tradition's resilience in the face of relentless modernisation. It's a city where old ways aren't merely preserved; they're celebrated.

Audiences in HCM City will have an opportunity to experience a film-live-with-orchestra concert of Disney’s most iconic animated feature Beauty and the Beast at the Hòa Bình Theatre on April 13 and 14.

It was not the first time Ayusawa Takanori hit the waves of Hà Nội's mother river. He also took part in the first season on April 24, 2021 of the Red River Warrior and finished first. He butterfly swam that day, when most other participants did backstroke or crawl, and finished in a record time of 2h21'03''.

Ancient costumes of Vietnamese people are a valuable part of their traditional cultural heritage. Preserving these outfits is an active way to develop traditional values for the present and future. Many young people have joined the process.

Local Vietnamese films are struggling to reach European and American markets due to local movie production culture.

HCM CITY — Cine Park, an outdoor movie screening event under the aegis of the 2024 HCM City International Film Festival, is taking place from April 7 to 12. 

The 7th Youth Fine Arts Festival is open to all Vietnamese painters, sculptors, and artists from the age of 18 to 35 years old to participate and summit their artworks.

The goal behind Italian Design Day 2024 is also to identify models and good practices capable of meeting the challenges of contemporaneity, highlighting the ability of Italian design to create and spread culture, as well as forms.

More than 10,000 tickets for a musical for children by talented artists from the IDECAF (Institute of Cultural Exchange with France) were sold on Ticketbox in 15 minutes. 

A total of 1.58 million couples said “I do” in 2023 – 128,000 fewer than in 2022, a number has been steadily falling since 2018.

HCM City and other provinces are organising numerous activities to encourage and firm up reading habits, especially among children and young people.

The recently released comic book entitled Sống (Live), by Vietnamese author Trần Hải Anh and French illustrator Pauline Guitton, presents a portrait of the complex relationship between Hải Anh and her mother and her roots. Việt Nam News reporter Nguyễn Bình chats with Guitton about her illustrations in the book.