Việt Nam News

They called him the "Kaiser", and for decades Karl Lagerfeld, who has died aged 85, reigned imperially over the fashion world.

The People’s Court of District 1 in HCM City has ruled that painter Lê Phong Linh (pen name Lê Linh) is to be the only author of popular comic series Thần Đồng Đất Việt (Vietnamese Land’s Prodigy).

Millions of television viewers around the globe will tune in Sunday to watch the Oscars, the glitziest night in showbiz, but most don't know how the winners are chosen. 

The sailor pictured kissing a woman in Times Square as people celebrated the end of World War II has died at age 95, his daughter told The Providence Journal.

A seminar on the film industry will take place at Hoa Sen University on February to help young Vietnamese filmmakers gain access to regional and international film festivals.

For most Hanoians, cốm (green sticky rice) is one of the capital’s most important symbols of gastronomy and elegance, and so is bánh cốm (sweet cake made of green sticky rice and green beans).

Vice President Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh yesterday received nearly 200 delegates from 46 countries and territories, who are participating in the ongoing 4th Conference on Advertising Vietnamese Literature, at the President Palace in Hà Nội.

The use of biologics such as platelet-rich plasma (PRP), mesenchymal stem cells or growth factors in the orthopedic office setting is becoming more common due to an increased demand for alternative methods of non-surgical management of soft-tissue and musculoskeletal conditions.

The central coastal province of Ninh Thuận this year aims to attract 2.35 million visitors, including 100,000 foreigners, and expand its luxury and ecotourism accommodations.

The largest cave in the world, Sơn Đoòng Cave, which is in Việt Nam’s central province of Quảng Bình, continues to receive attention from international press outlets, the provincial Department of Tourism announced.

The first programme of a special art project to introduce classical music to young people will begin next week in HCM City. 

Thousands of writers and poetry lovers flocked to the Literature Temple in downtown Hà Nội yesterday to join the 17th Vietnamese Poetry Day.

Literature transformed what was to be a short meeting to schedule a tour of Kontum into a four-hour conversation. Once we found out we shared a love for books, myself and Huyh the operator of a travel company in the central highlands, spent hours citing and quoting authors.

HCM City will launch a celebration of National Poetry Day, falling on the 15th day of the first lunar month on February 18-19.

Forty years ago, the northern border area of Việt Nam witnessed a fierce attack by the Chinese army. Between February 17 and March 18, 1979, the army pushed deep into Vietnamese territory in the provinces of Quảng Ninh, Lạng Sơn, Cao Bằng, Hà Giang, Lào Cai and Lai Châu. The Chinese forces made it as far as 50 kilometres into Việt Nam in some places, even reaching Cao Bằng Town, Tài Hồ Xìn and Phố Lu.

Pig racing will take place everyday from now to February 24 in Mường Châu Village, Ba Vì District on the outskirts of Hà Nội.

Thousands of pilgrims and tourists flocked to the Temple of Mother Goddess in the northern mountainous province of Lạng Sơn on Thursday to attend a festival dedicated to the Goddess. Among the tourists, hundreds were from China.

Pianists Trần Thị Tâm Ngọc and Phạm Quỳnh Trang of the Mây Piano Duo will perform a special concert next month at the French Cultural Centre, L’Espace, in central Hà Nội.