Việt Nam News

Film director Phan Gia Nhật Linh has begun casting for his movie on the late famous songwriter Trịnh Công Sơn called Em và Trịnh (You and Trịnh).

The Hải Phòng Culture and Sports Department has sent a document to Hải Phòng City People's Committee asking for permission to conduct urgent excavations at the site where 13 stakes were unearthed. The stakes were assumed to be involved in historic naval battles between the Đại Việt army and Yuan-Mongol invaders in the 13th century.

Breakthrough London rapper Dave won the top gong at a male-dominated Brit Awards on Tuesday after delivering a politically-charged performance at British pop's biggest night.

One of Việt Nam’s leading opera artists Vũ Mạnh Dũng was killed by his wife's brother last night. 

A haunting refrain pierces the night as the tribeswomen of the Gongwang Bonyo, among the most isolated people in Myanmar, dance around a campfire to bless the harvest ahead.

The southern province of Tây Ninh plans to renovate 22 historic relic sites at a total cost of more than VNĐ440 billion (nearly US$19 million) this year in an aim to attract more tourists.

Việt Nam has officially launched its first overseas tourism office in London, the UK, on February 18. 

Việt Nam’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will continue to focus on researching and completing the dossiers to seek UNESCO’s recognition for more of Việt Nam’s tangible and intangible cultural heritages, said deputy minister Trịnh Thị Thủy during a meeting with Michael Croft, the UNESCO representative in Việt Nam.

An installation exhibition entitled Nước Xanh Non Biếc (Green River Blue Mountain) at the French Cultural Centre (L'Espace) is the result of artist Lê Giang's three-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. 

The highly anticipated Huế Festival 2020 will be postponed due to the spread of fatal novel coronavirus (Covid-19), according to Thừa Thiên Huế Province’s People’s Committee.

A number of Vietnamese songwriters have composed songs about the coronavirus epidemic.

Two exhibitions by a group of young artists are on display at HCM City’s The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre.

About 10,000 Japanese men clad only in loincloths braved freezing temperatures at the weekend to pack into a temple and scramble in the dark for lucky wooden talismans tossed into the crowd, in a ritual that dates back five centuries.

Prose works recently issued by young writers are leaving a strong impression on readers.

Hương Pagoda festival attracts thousands of people and afterwards many return home carrying with them củ mài (white yam), a local specialty that's as tasty as it is healthy.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Region is seeing a fall in the number of tourist arrival due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

The fourth theatrical festival, taking place in July and featuring plays inspired by Vietnamese police, is calling for entries.

Because a number of different conditions can cause chronic pelvic pain, it is sometimes difficult for doctors to pinpoint the specific cause.