Việt Nam News

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has asked Quảng Ninh Province People’s Committee to direct local agencies to enhance State management at relics and festivals and stop superstitious activities at religious sites.

A forest worshipping ceremony is among the biggest traditional events of the year for the Mông ethnic minority group in Nà Hẩu Commune in the northern province of Yên Bái. The ceremony, also known as “Tết Rừng” (Forest New Year Festival), is held at the end of the first lunar month.

The final round of the Sao Mai (Morning Star) contest will start on Saturday (March 23) with the participation of the 15 best contestants.

Hà Nội audiences will have a chance to watch a production of The Bald Soprano by LucTeam troupe at Kim Mã Theatre this Saturday.

A barber’s association in a northern Bangladesh town has warned its members not to give “foreign” haircuts or beard styles on pain of fines, an official said on Thursday.

At least one million people are expected to flock to a "once in a generation" exhibition about the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun which opens in Paris this weekend.

Rosy trumpet trees along many streets in HCM City’s downtown area have bloomed early this year, beautifying streets with their bright pink flowers.

Photographer and RMIT Vietnam lecturer Simon Richards has visually documented the hidden art of typography and hand-painted Vietnamese signs in Hoàn Kiếm District, an area in Hà Nội rich with cultural heritage and history.

Việt Nam really is a wonderful country to travel, with unique culture to experience from north to south. I think those lucky enough to have visited magnificent sites around the world will agree with me that Kon Tum is one of the most special.

Paths under canopies of leaves in Bách Thảo (Botanical) Garden, Hà Nội, will become catwalks for the Việt Nam Fashion Week Fall Winter 2019 which will be held on March 22-24.

Protecting cultural assets and creating spaces for community activity were some solutions given during the Cities of the Future and Heritage Preservation conferences, organised in the framework of Italian Design Day (IDD) 2019.

An exhibition titled Tìm Lại Ký Ức (Finding Memories) opened at the War Remnants Museum in HCM City yesterday (March 21).

An album of works by late Vietnamese-American composer and singer Trần Thiện Thanh, a famous artist in the south before 1975, has been released in HCM City.  

More than 100 spring-summer designs of the Eva De Eva brand were released during the fashion show ‘Colour Your Mood’, held on Wednesday in Hà Nội.

A worship ceremony dedicated to Heaven and Earth was held for the first time after 617 years at Nam Giao Worship Platform built during the Hồ dynasty in 1402 in the central province of Thanh Hóa on Wednesday.

The Singaporean street hawker Chan Hon Meng, famous for serving the world’s cheapest Michelin-starred meal, will cook at Pan Pacific Hanoi Hotel on Friday evening.

Over a dozen empty buildings in one of Greece's most scenic locations -- the UNESCO-listed Old Town of Rhodes -- are being offered for lease in the coming weeks, a ministry official said Wednesday.

A rare nude drawing by Picasso of his lover Marie-Therese Walter is to be sold by New York’s Museum of Modern Art in Paris later this month, Christie’s said Wednesday.