Việt Nam News

US toymaker Mattel on Wednesday unveiled a new line of Barbie dolls based on accomplished women that include US snowboarder Chloe Kim, Australian conservationist Bindi Irwin, and Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

Irish rockers The Cranberries said Wednesday they would go ahead with a new album despite the sudden death of singer Dolores O'Riordan in January.

This year Sri Lanka celebrates its 70^th Anniversary of Independence and 48 years of formal diplomatic relations with Việt Nam. Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Việt Nam Hasanthi Urugodawatte Dissanayake shared a message with Việt Nam News readers about the mutual co-operation between two countries and the achievements of Sri Lanka in the recent years.

Four Vietnamese women artists will showcase their paintings at the Spring Song Art Exhibition in Nanjing, capital of China’s Jiangsu Province, from March 8 to 16.

Việt Nam and Poland will perform in the curtain-raiser of the 2018 Đà Nẵng International Fireworks Festival on the central city’s Hàn River on April 30.

 A stone stele created during the reign of King Lê Thái Tổ (1428-33) in the northwest mountainous border province of Lai Châu has been recognised as a national treasure and the memorial site for the king has been listed as a national historical site.

An exhibition of replicas of “sovereignty rocks” and landmarks of the Spratly Archipelago kicked off a wide range of activities organised around the theme “The love of youth and ethnic people for sea and islands”.

Female sculptor Lê Thị Hiền is holding her first solo exhibition, which will open from 5pm today at the Việt Nam Fine Arts Museum.

On the International Women’s Day, the Vietnamese Women’s Museum will open an art exhibition by famous female artist Văn Dương Thành.

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Vietnamese musicians Nguyên Lê and Ngô Hồng Quang have been nominated for Echo Jazz 2018, a prestigious jazz award hosted by the ACT Music recording company.

Swiss chocolate maker Lindt & Spruengli is seeking to lure more sweet-toothed consumers in Japan, China, South Africa, Brazil and Russia, where the group said Tuesday it enjoys "enormous potential".

Young people are taking part in special projects that replicate traditional Vietnamese clothes worn by royalty of various dynasties. 

Overseas Vietnamese Trần Nữ Yên Khê is a design artist for many movies such as Norwegian Wood - an official nominee at the Golden Lion International Film Festival - and Eternity.  She spoke about the role of art design in a film.

An exhibition on the history of Việt Nam’s imperial examinations through documentary heritage of the world shows how studying and examinations were regarded and instituted by kings.

The culture ministry yesterday announced that the recent construction at Cái Hạ Mountain inside Tràng An Heritage Site in the northern province of Ninh Bình by a local tourism company violated the Culture Heritage Law.

Around 148 new books by Vietnamese and international authors have been released this month as part of Tháng 3 sách Trẻ (March Youth Books) programme.

A number of classic Vietnamese films will be screened for free to celebrate 65 years since the day President Hồ Chí Minh founded Việt Nam’s revolutionary cinema.