Việt Nam News

The stamps, featuring the image of a dog with folk imprints, were designed by painter Phạm Hà Hải,who won the competition Folk Material in Lunar New Year Stamp held by the ministry in 2017.

French singer France Gall, who shot to fame in the 1960s with a series of hits and a sexually suggestive song about lollipops written by Serge Gainsbourg, died Sunday aged 70, her spokeswoman announced.

The typical Hanoian winter, cold and rainy, makes it an ideal environment for many seasonal diseases like influenza. But other so-called childhood diseases like mumps and measles also have a tendency to flare up during this season. 2017 has seen a drastic increase in measles cases in Vietnam. Although measles affects mostly children, non-vaccinated adults are equally as vulnerable and prone.

Movie star and producer Ngô Thanh Vân launched her new film projects on Vietnamese myths and folk stories this week in HCM City.

Old houses in Tân Tịch Hamlet, Cao Lãnh City, in the southern province of Đồng Tháp, are being decorated in a colourful manner as part of the Australia-Việt Nam Mural Village art project, which is being conducted within the area.

An exhibition displaying 37 art photos promoting the values and diversity of Vietnamese people and culture by renowned French photographer Réhahn opened last Saturday in HCM City.

A woman from the Ê đê ethnic minority was crowned Miss Universe Việt Nam 2017 after the final round of the beauty pageant was held yesterday evening in Nha Trang, in the central province of Khánh Hòa.

Lucia and the Ice Mountain, a fairy tale musical co-produced by young musicians and producers from ASEAN countries, will premiere in HCM City today.

The first day of the new year was also time for the Sedang, an ethnic group among the 54 ethnicities of Việt Nam, to celebrate their New Rice Festival.

The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will present works by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich in a concert at the city’s Opera House on January 9.

Young people who are rock fans will be feted with a party of music in the evening of January 6 in Hà Nội.

The central coastal city of Đà Nẵng plans to launch a second open-top bus service for tourists between the international airport and Sơn Trà peninsula.

The central city plans to turn An Thượng quarter in coastal Ngũ Hành Sơn district into the first tourism area catering to late night shopping and entertainment.

 Scots are stockpiling their national soft drink Irn Bru ahead of the introduction of a new low-sugar recipe later this month.

Four actresses accused Canadian theatre director and actor Albert Schultz of being a "serial sexual predator," the latest in a wave of women going public with past abuses by powerful men.

Young pop idol Sơn Tùng M-TP’s latest music video (MV) has attracted more than 167 million viewers on YouTube.    

Scientists have gathered 20,000 objects dated back to the first century BC at an excavation in the southern province of An Giang. The results were announced at a workshop held on January 3.

Diplo and Mark Ronson, two DJs who have achieved wide success as producers, will premiere a new collaboration at New York’s Governors Ball music festival, promoters announced on Wednesday.