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Traditional toys indispensable at Mid-Autumn Festival

Some of the most popular traditional toys are paper masks, which have also found favour among international and domestic tourists.

Walking among the flowers on Khai Trung plain

Located 700m above sea level, Khai Trung plain is surrounded by ranges of high rocky mountains and primeval forests and is an ideal place for tourists to relax amidst the cool climate and beautiful flowers.

Needy kids enjoy Mid-Autumn Festival delights

Vừ Thị Mỉ, an 8-year-old Mông ethnicity girl, cannot hide her excitement when speaking about her Mid-Autumn Festival experience.

Vietnamese designers to present spring-summer offerings

The Việt Nam Spring Summer 2020 Fashion Week starting today (September 13) will present the latest collections by leading designers.

Buddhist thangka paintings on display at Pháp Vân Pagoda

Thangka artists from Kathmandu, Nepal, will introduce a collection of hundreds of Buddhist thangka paintings during an exhibition this weekend at the Pháp Vân Pagoda.

European Heritage Days offer free visits to rarely opened sites

Every year, during European Heritage Days, millions of people have been given the chance to access thousands of rarely-opened sites and unique events.

French-Vietnamese pianist returns to perform

French – Vietnamese pianist Kim Barbier will perform a solo recital in Hà Nội on Saturday

Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical lion goes on display in Paris

Leonardo da Vinci's famous mechanical lion on Wednesday went on display in Paris for a month, in a tribute to the Renaissance master 500 years after his death.

Taylor Swift signs up for ‘race that stops a nation’

Taylor Swift is heading to Australia to perform at the "race that stops a nation", with the pop superstar strutting her stuff before the Melbourne Cup, organisers announced on Thursday.

VTV launches new game show on employment

Cơ Hội Cho Ai? (Whose Chance?), a new television game show on employment, will air on Việt Nam National Television’s Channel 3 (VTV3) at 11am every Saturday starting this week (September 14).

Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring returns to HCM City

The contemporary dance based on Stravinsky’s orchestral work, The Rite of Spring, will be restaged at the HCM City Opera House on Saturday.

Author Nagano Hideko – friend to Vietnamese children

Painter Nagano Hideko is known as a mother, grandmother and a great friend of Japanese children. She is also the author of many famous picture books published all over the world, some of which have been published in Việt Nam.

Việt Nam featured in Louis Vuitton advertisement

Hạ Long Bay and Ninh Bình are the backgrounds in the video from the French brand.

Ben UFO to perform at Epizode 4

The second round of acts for Southeast Asia’s top underground dance music event have been released, with pioneering British DJ Ben UFO among the names to be added.

Vietnamese fashion designers showcase works in New York

Vietnamese fashion designers Đỗ Trịnh Hoài Nam and Nguyễn Công Trí have impressed the audience with their Asian-style collections at two New York fashion events.

Largest flying animal in history identified: study

Scientists on Tuesday unveiled a new species pterosaur, the plane-sized reptiles that lorded over primeval skies above T-rex, Triceratops and other dinosaurs of the late Cretaceous.

Lack of female directors in Hollywood an ‘embarrassment’: Geena Davis

The #MeToo movement has not changed the fortunes of female directors in the United States, Thelma and Louise star Geena Davis told the Deauville American Film Festival on Tuesday, calling Hollywood an "embarrassment".

Outrage over plan to demolish historic street art

Two wall paintings made in the early 1980s at the Bạch Mai-Minh Khai crossroads in Hà Nội's Hai Bà Trưng District will soon be knocked down for a new road project.

Documentary on search for martyrs wins VTV awar

Đường Về (A Way Home) by filmmaker Tạ Quỳnh Tư won the Impressive Documentary award at VTV Awards 2019 last Saturday.

Vietnam Stage Day celebrated nationwide

Artists across the country gathered to pay tribute to the theatre’s ancestors who laid the foundations for the national art forms and contributed to their development through the years at a celebration held yesterday.