Việt Nam News

American contrabass artist Jeff Bradetich and clarinetist John Scott will perform at the 2018 Vietnam Connection Music Festival this week.

Having flat feet means that your feet have low or no arches and press almost completely flat against the ground. The arch, or instep, is the middle part of the foot that's usually raised off the ground when you stand, while the rest of the foot remains flat on the ground.

Traditional festivals, cuisine and the arts of ethnic groups living in the central region will be reflected during a festival held August 24-26 in the central province of Quảng Nam. 

A Vietnamese Book Week opened at a bookstore in Tokyo, Japan, last Friday.

The Việt Nam Ethnic Groups’ Culture Museum in northern province has hosted various exhibitions, folk art shows, and traditional games over the weekend.

The lotus is the major theme of the “Tâm Linh” (Spiritus) art exhibition at the HCM City Exhibition Centre, which opens on August 18.

Heavy rains in the past weeks has resulted in high level of water and strong curents on streamlines and rivers in northern provicne of Điện Biên. Despite the danger, local children have taken risks to gather floating woods in fierce streams.

HCM City is seeing positive changes to the local puppetry scene, according to authorities.

A ritual festival for worshipping Mother Goddess will start today and end on Monday next week in the Hòn Chén Temple, a monument built by kings under the Nguyễn Dynasty (1802-1945) hundreds years ago.

What the works demonstrate so well is a sharp and strangely peaceful view on these living conditions that people faced with humor, and sometimes even with a surprising joy.

This year will mark the 45th anniversary of the diplomatic ties between Việt Nam and Japan, and the 15th landmark of the relationship of Japan and the central Quảng Nam Province.

Thousands of locals on August 16 attended the first Việt Nam Puppetry Festival on HCM City’s Nguyễn Huệ Pedestrian Street, which closes on August 18.

A traditional theatre programme offering tuồng and hát bội (classical drama) will be staged free on HCM City’s Bùi Viện Walking Street on Sunday to celebrate the 73rd anniversary of the 1945 August Revolution (August 19).

The island district of Hoàng Sa (Paracel) in Đà Nẵng city has launched a contest for designers to create a logo and slogan for the island’s museum – one of the most visited sites on Sơn Trà peninsula.

Thrillist, the New York-based travel site, has named Lan Hạ Bay near the northern coastal city of Hải Phòng as one of the best  places to visit in Southeast Asia.

At Phan Kim Ngân’s house, visitors can make their own local traditional cakes and enjoy a buffet consisting of nearly 50 kinds of cakes. Ngân’s is one of many households offering community-based tourism services on Cồn Sơn or Sơn Islet, located in Bình Thủy District in the southern city of Cần Thơ.

A group of artists from Việt Nam known as Art Labor and Joan Jonas will attend the 57th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the US.

Madonna, the Queen of Pop, appears to have travelled to the former imperial city of Marrakech in western Morocco to celebrate her 60th birthday yesterday.