Việt Nam News

UNESCO will officially hand over a certificate recognising Non Nước Cao Bằng Geopark as a global geopark during a ceremony on November 24 in the northern border province of Cao Bằng.

The central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế is to send art troupes to the regional folklore festival to be held later this month in Đà Lạt.

A rare 850 gramme white truffle was auctioned for 85,000 euros (US$96,000) in the Italian region of Alba on Sunday, with the anonymous Hong Kong buyer paying nearly 30 times this year's market price for smaller nuggets.

Have you ever wondered why your seemingly robust child suddenly gets frequently ill upon starting school? This is because the classroom is a perfect breeding ground for infective organism to flourish.

Vietnamese-American director Victor Vũ is working on his latest film on love, Mắt Biếc (Blue Eyes), together with his staff in HCM City.

Robert Lehrbaumer, one of the most important Austrian musician in the international concert scene, will perform in Hà Nội and HCM City on November 13 and 15, respectively.

Researchers and agencies are planning to restore two bomb shelters in Hà Nội’s Thăng Long Imperial Complex. The sites, used during the American war, will then be open to the public.

Many stakeholders, enterprises and managers gathered at a conference on building culture for enterprises held in Hà Nội on Friday by Người Hà Nội (Hanoians) Newspaper.

With a new cable car to open at its most famous tourist site, the riverside city of Châu Đốc is poised to become an important spiritual and cultural destination in the Mekong Delta. Ngọc Diệp reports.

 First prize of the Young Francophones Reporters – Việt Nam 2018—a writing contest in French language held by Le Courrier du Vietnam (CVN) a weekly French language newspaper under Vietnam News Agency, was awarded yesterday to Đào Phương Loan, a student from the Hà Nội University.

Tả Liên Sơn Forest has a high peak reaching 2,993 metres above the sea level. It is located 20 kilometres from Lai Châu city, Tả lèng Commune, Tam Đường District in the northern province of Lai Châu.

Experts and speakers from Oxford University Press, Cambridge University, MacMillan Education and National Geographic Learning outlined new ways of teaching English using technology during a conference held yesterday in Hà Nội.

A book vending machine has been set up at Sense Market in HCM City’s District 1.

The historic city of Hà Nội with its unique features dating from French colonial rule and food culture will be explored from a new perspective in the CNN show Street Life Hanoi to be aired on the channel tomorrow.

The first ever documentary series on Vietnamese architecture has just been launched.

International news channel France 24 has been officially granted permission to broadcast its French programming in Việt Nam by the Ministry of Information and Communications, according to the Embassy of France in Việt Nam.

5 Seconds of Summer were already in shock when their album  beat out Beyonce and Jay-Z for the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart this summer.