Việt Nam News

In a career that spanned four decades, he sold more than five million albums, earned a slate of international awards and provided a soundtrack to the anti-apartheid struggle and South Africa’s transition to multi-racial democracy in 1994.

With support from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, a campaign board has been working for months to launch the Việt Nam Association of Film Promotion and Development by the end of July.

The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will stage contemporary dances and a classical ballet choreographed by Vietnamese and international artists at the HCM City Opera House on July 20 and 21.

A fine arts exhibition featuring local life in the country’s central and Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên) regions will run from August 13 to 22, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

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Singer Beyoncé on July 14 wore a design by Vietnamese popular designer Công Trí at the premier ceremony of The Lion King in London.

Stella McCartney, daughter of iconic Beatle Paul, set up her business in 2001 and will "continue as creative director and ambassador for her brand while holding majority ownership," LVMH said in a statement.

Pancakes are simply really, but when it comes to food, Việt Nam really doesn’t do plain and simple.

Folk music researchers support the creation of a digital stock of ca trù (ceremonial singing) owned by a State-run agency to preserve the traditional artform and gather scattered materials owned by individual artists and researchers.

Organised by the group Hanoi Art for Youth, the show will be staged in parallel with musical Matilda, aiming to introduce famous literary works to Vietnamese audiences.

Vietnamese artists Phan Thị Thanh Mai won the first place prize and Ngô Duy Hiển took fourth at the recent 26th International Statue and Painting Exhibition in Seoul, South Korea.

In the first half of 2019, Việt Nam welcomed nearly 1.8 million visitors from South Korea.

The ancient city of Hội An will host a ‘lantern night’ in the streets of Wernigerode, its twin town, in Germany as part of cultural co-operation between the two cities from August 23-25.

EuropaCorp, a 20-year-old studio, located in a northern Paris suburb, has run up losses over the past four years, particularly by failing to recoup its big production costs on a lavish 2017 sci-fi movie, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, that was a box-office disappointment.

Spider-Man: Far From Home beat back competition from two debut films at the North American box office.

Thành Tuyên Festival will be held from September 12 to 14 in the northern province of Tuyên Quang.

Authorities in HCM City are promoting a reading culture in the community through a series of new programmes organised this year.

The Việt Nam Puppetry Theatre will stage Truyện Kiều (The Tale of Kiều) for the first time as an experimental performance.