Việt Nam News

A collection of 132 works on trúc chỉ, an artistic handmade paper, is on show at a visual art exhibition in Huế.

Former country expert of the World Bank Việt Nam and researcher Martin Rama has been appointed as Project Director of the Centre for Sustainable Urban Development at the Việt Nam Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities. He talks with Culture Vulture about the upcoming plan to preserve and promote the urban heritage of the city.

Visitors to the central coastal city of Đà Nẵng this New Year will find themselves immersed in a celebratory atmosphere, as the city is planning many festive activities.

Few living people witnessed the carnage and destruction of the bombing of Hà Nội in December 1972. But those who were there remember it clearly.

An exhibition marking the Mậu Thân Offensive in Spring 1968 opened last weekend at the Union of Literature and Arts Associations in HCM City.  

The HCM City People’s Committee has sought Government approval to set off fireworks to mark New Year and Tết (the Lunar New Year).

New archeological research has shed fresh light on China's first emperor -- creator of the world-famous terracotta army -- and his quest for eternal life, state media reported.

Heather Menzies-Urich, a star of The Sound of Music, which continues to win hearts worldwide after more than half a century, died at age 68, an industry source said on Monday. 

Paintings inspired by both beauty and vice of women are displayed at an on-going exhibition in Hà Nội.

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A series of four posters featuring characters from an ancient tuồng play (classical drama) by Vietnamese designer Đặng Thị Bích Ngọc has been named a winner of the 2017 American Graphic Design Awards.

A superhero film coming to cinemas nationwide during the Christmas and New Year season is expected to do well at the box office and possibly surpass earnings of its competitors.

The painting Nguyệt Ước (Promise under Moonlight). depicting the love between Thúy Kiều and Kim Trọng in Kiều’s Tale by Nguyễn Du, was auctioned at Chọn’s Auction House in Hà Nội on Sunday for US$83,000.

Thousands of youth in HCM City and neighbouring provinces are taking part in an event called #VERYSPECIAL X’MAS PLAYGROUND that began on Christmas Eve and ends on January 1 in the Crescent area in District 7.

Mariah Carey confirmed that she will return to Times Square in New York to ring in 2018, a year after she was humiliated by technical issues at the annual televised ball-drop. 

The force was with Disney as the latest Star Wars movie The Last Jedi beat out the competition to top the Christmas weekend box office, according to industry estimates released Sunday. 

The 10th HCM City Book Expo will open at Lê Văn Tám Park in District 3 in March.