Filmmakers need more encouragement to tackle big topics

Scriptwriter Nguyễn Thị Hồng Ngát is known for her award-winning films Canh Bạc (The Gamble) and Trăng Trên Đất Khách (Moon in A Foreign Land). Her latest script, Ông Ké (Mr Ke), has yet to secure funding for production. She spoke to the media about the need to encourage films that take on subjects of major significance.

Điện Biên battlefield legacy powers tourism revival

Seventy-two years after the Điện Biên Phủ Victory, its legacy still reverberates. The unity, self-reliance, and resilience forged in that historic triumph remain a powerful internal engine, now propelling Điện Biên toward fast and sustainable development.

A feast on the breeze in Đà Nẵng

More than 100 food pavilions offering 5,000 food and beer combos will serve visitors and local gastronomers at the annual Đà Nẵng Food Tour Festival at Biển Đông (East Sea) Park and Tam Thanh coastal mural village from May 20–24, stirring a summer holiday breeze.

Culinary, heritage passports reshape cultural tourism

The central city of Huế is among the first to forge new paths. Its “Huế Tourism Passport” began as a destination brochure in 2018 and has since evolved into the “Huế City Passport” app, with a heritage-passport feature that strings monuments into a structured journey.

Việt Nam lacquer artists debut at Venice Biennale

Entitled Vietnam: Art in a Global Flow, the exhibition, running from May 9 to November 22, brings together the artists to explore the medium as both tradition and an evolving artistic language, reflecting time, craft and Việt Nam’s place in a global dialogue.

Asia’s leading luxury travel magazine hails Hà Nội's new opera house: "Move aside, Sydney"

The magazine opened its feature with a bold declaration: "Move aside, Sydney. There’s a new iconic opera house on the water." The fact that Hà Nội's architectural masterpiece is being showcased by a platform that shapes the trends of the global travel elite is a clear testament to the project's worldwide appeal. International experts have already begun to place the Hà Nội Opera House on the same sca

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