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“Everything that I have today is due to my love and contribution to cải lương (reformed opera),”  said actor Võ Minh Lâm of Trần Hữu Trang Cải Lương Theatre, one of HCM City’s leading art troupes in the traditional operatic art.

A portion of spine disc pushes outside from normal position of spinal vertabra, this is called a herniated disc. Herniated disc normally occurs following traumatic agents or when the disc becomes less elastic and more rigid due to degeneration and rupture. On clinical signs is manifested a neuropathic pain.

Trạng Tí (Child Master), a film about Vietnamese folk stories, will be postponed until February next year due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the producer Studio68 has announced.

A book on the history and geography of Việt Nam compiled by researcher Nguyễn Đình Đầu has just been released to celebrate his 100th birthday.

Hoàng Thùy Linh earned four nominations, including song of the year and music video of the year, for Để Mỵ Nói Cho Mà Nghe (Let Me Tell), leading the competition for the 15th Devotion Music Awards. 

Hotels across the nation, including in HCM City and Hà Nội, are cutting back staff, or facing closure or bankruptcy as revenue and bookings have plummeted.

The province's Bahnar and Jrai ethnic groups' Pơ Thi or Bỏ Mả ceremony is held one to three years after someone dies to ask for the dead's permission to let the living move the corpse to a new tomb.

Xẩm Hà Thành (Hà Nội buskers’ singing group) has recently published various videos of traditional xẩm singing.

Nguyễn Hòa, and a two-member team, Vũ Thành Nam and Nguyễn Khánh Linh, have won first prizes in the 2019-20 Hoa Mai furniture design competition, the former for his art work Cham Shelf and the latter for Bèo chair set, the organisers announced on March 12.

Local police in Hương Thủy Town, the central province of Thừa Thiên Huế, have just returned a 19th century bronze bell to Nguyễn Phúc's family.

The northern province of Bắc Ninh has completed a dossier seeking UNESCO’s inclusion of the making of Đông Hồ folk paintings on the list of intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent protection.

Following other world-famous celebrities, American singer-songwriter and rapper Lizzo is the newest icon to wear an outfit created by Vietnamese designer Nguyễn Công Trí.

New Yorker John Eckard, 66, was sleeping soundly at his son's home near Frankfurt, Germany when he was startled by a 3 am call from his wife saying he "had to fly back now".

Without warning prepaid customers, Michelin-star chef Thierry Drapeau has suddenly but sheepishly pulled up stakes in western France and left for Asia to start new restaurants.

The ancient city of Hội An began spraying chemicals to sterilise relics and destinations in the Old Quarter, closing the pedestrian street and all bars in Minh An ward until March 31.

Cambodia is a treasure trove packed with culture, traditions, history and memories. Its landscapes are on par with anything you will see in Asia.

A new TV series titled Nhà Trọ Balanha (Homestay Balanha), depicting the dreams and failures of youngsters, will be broadcast by Việt Nam Television. 

Veteran photographer Mầu Hoàng Thiết has presented thousands of film negatives that he took over 50 years to the National Archives Centre IV.