Việt Nam News

The Walt Disney Company on Tuesday announced a two-billion-euro (US$2.5-billion) expansion of its Paris amusement park which will add a new Star Wars-themed zone to the huge site.

A British winemaker has begun making sparkling wine in pint-sized bottles, preparing for a post-Brexit future in which the imperial measure favoured by wartime prime minister Winston Churchill could make its return.

Singer Hương Giang, the Vietnamese representative competing at ‘Miss International Queen 2018’, will present an ornate national costume weighing a hefty 55kg at the transgender beauty pageant.

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The Việt Nam Association for Rights Protection of Music Performing Artists (APPA) has the first contract to represent singer Tân Nhàn and collect copyright money.

HCM City’s Nguyễn Huệ Flower Street welcomed more than a million visitors during the seven-day Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.

 Audiences in Hà Nội will have the chance to enjoy the extraordinary voice of the world-renowned mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, winner of two Grammy Awards, in a special one-night only concert in the city on Friday night. The Swedish artist will stage her first-ever concert in the country at the Việt Nam Academy of Music.

 The Lim Festival featuring quan họ (love duet singing) kicked off on Tuesday, the 12th day of the lunar new year, in the northern province of Bắc Ninh, attracting thousands of visitors from all over the country.

A music collection by France-based Vietnamese zitherist Trí Nguyễn has been nominated for the Independent Music Awards (IMA) 2018. The results will be announced on March 31 in New York.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam visited the central province of Quảng Trị on Monday.

The Vatican will lend around 40 ecclesiastical works to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for an exhibition focusing on the Catholic religion's impact on fashion, organisers said on Monday.

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's former studio appeared to inch closer toward bankruptcy on Monday over complaints that talks to buy the troubled production house had collapsed, leaving it with "no choice" but to go to the wall.

A plan to air a Mandarin version of MasterChef in Singapore sparked anger on Monday, with netizens claiming that the cooking show will not cater to all in the multi-ethnic country.

To celebrate the Year of the Dog, the exhibition showcased 30 paintings of 18 Vietnamese contemporary artists, including Phan Cẩm Thượng, Thành Chương, Đỗ Dũng, and Phạm An Hải.

Dishes made of tofu are sold abundantly in most Vietnamese markets and made in different regions across the country, but those made in Mơ Village, presently known as Mai Động Village in Hà Nội’s Hoàng Mai District, are the most delicious, giving rise to the moniker, “Mơ Village’s Tofu”.

A collection of 108 photographs featuring Hương Pagoda at present and in the past are on display at the Thiên Trù Pagoda, part of the historical and spiritual Hương Pagoda complex in Hà Nội outskirt Mỹ Đức District.

Actress Tuệ Minh, widely known for her roles in Vietnamese classic movies of Revolutionary Cinema from the 1950s-1960s, passed away on her 80th birthday in Hà Nội.

An art exhibition entitled Hồ Gươm Mùa Xuân (Sword Lake and Spring) kicked off last week at the Hoàn Kiếm Cultural House, 2 Lê Thái Tổ Street.