Việt Nam News

LucTeam, the first private professional drama troupe in Hà Nội, will stage the comedy Quẫn (Insanity) tonight, May 30, at L’Espace.

A free screening of the Israeli documentary film I'm Fat will be held on June 3 as part of the 10th European-Vietnam Documentary Film Festival.

Việt Nam’s biggest music festival is back. After a hiatus in 2018, Monsoon Music Festival will return in November, its organisers announced on Tuesday.

Bánh mỳ Phượng, a popular sandwich restaurant in Hội An, has opened its first foreign branch in Seoul in South Korea.

Two white tiger cubs have been taken to their new home at the Nicaragua National Zoo, where the playful pair will join a menagerie of rare big cat species.

Phạm Ngọc, a reporter from Lao Động Cuối Tuần (Weekend Labour) interviews musician Kim Ngọc, director of Đom Đóm — the Hub for Experimental Art & Music, which is helping run the Future of Tradition project on traditional and contemporary art.

Various cultural and entertainment events for children will be held in Hà Nội to celebrate the International Children’s Day (June 1).

A play on money and love adapted from Honoré de Balzac’s novel Eugénie Grandet by female director Việt Linh will be staged on June 14 at the HCM City Opera House as part of a theatre project launched by the theatre and its partner, the HCM City Centre of Performing Organising and Cinematography.  

A new book on the culture and lifestyle of Sài Gòn, now HCM City, was released by the Culture & Arts Publishing House last weekend.

An oil-on-canvas painting featuring a nude woman by master painter Lê Phổ (1907-2001) was sold at nearly US$ 1.4 million (HK$10,925,000) at an auction sale at Christie’s Hong Kong on May 26.

A bunch of paintings by children depicting nature and scenes of nature and daily life is on display at the HCM City Fine Arts’ Association.  

Vietnamese award-winning documentary Remember: You Are Alive will open the 10th European – Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival on May 31 in Hà Nội and HCM City.

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During the Later Lê Dynasty (1533 - 1789), kings would host a ritual to give fans to all mandarins during the Đoan Ngọ festival in summer.

So you've lived in Hà Nội and you believe the long list of connoisseurs and food critics has attracted all of the country's regional delicacies to the capital city for you to try.

The 19th century An Hiên Garden House built on the bank of the Hương (Perfume) River for a Nguyễn Dynasty princess in the former imperial city of Huế has reopened its doors to the public after closing for restoration.

A rare all-white panda has been caught on camera at a nature reserve in southwest China, showing albinism exists among wild pandas in the region, state media reported.