Việt Nam News

Art lovers have been fllocking to an art show in downtown Hà Nội. Many of them have been stunned at the dozens of paintings inspired by the glorious mountains and karst plateau of northern Hà Giang Province.

More than 200 titles of books featuring Russia and its people are on display at the HCM City Book Street on Nguyễn Văn Bình Street in District 1 as  part of Russian Culture Week launched by the city government Monday.

Hà Nội-based artist Nguyễn Đức Phương (aka Phương Giò) will unveil his art at an exhibition at Manzi Art Space on Friday.

Heritage Space continues its music series Hidden Beat with Bésame Mucho – a jazzy night on Saturday featuring the duo SamRaz Music.

As part of a month dedicated to Hong Kong’s cinema industry, the Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents (TPD) will present a screening of the 1995 movie Fallen Angels tomorrow.

Rap superstar Kanye West is back nearly a year after suffering a breakdown – making a brief musical appearance in which he appears to keep his feud with Taylor Swift alive.

Amsterdam will enforce a new ban on ’beer-bikes’ this week after years of complaints by locals about rowdy tourists getting drunk and disorderly while pedalling along its famous canals.

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Female archaeologist Nguyễn Thị Hậu, deputy general secretary of the Việt Nam History Association, introduced her latest book on urbanisation and heritage preservation in HCM City last week.  

An art space has been launched on the east side of the Rồng (Dragon) bridge in Trần Hưng Đạo Street as part of the city’s street-art programme in hosting the 2017 Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Summit on November 5-11.

The capital city’s People’s Committee will host the Tourism Promotion Festival on November 3-5, at Lý Thái Tổ Park beside Sword Lake.

At 81, Japanese sculptor Katsumi Mukai shows no signs of stopping, continuing to work on big tree trunks to create giant sculptures. Việt Nam’s beautiful landscapes are an endless inspiration, he says.

A collection of poems on the patriotic war from 1941-1945 entitled Wait For Me has been translated into Vietnamese to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution (1917-2017).

Vietnamese contestant, Nguyễn Trần Phương, and Thai contestant, Ravisut Patipatvasin, emerged the top winners at the first ever Almar Hanoi International Festival and Competition held in Hà Nội.

A festival featuring the worship of Mother Goddesses will bring many folk artists from across the nation to Hà Nội on November 9-13.

Ancient Bình Định ceramics were found to be influenced by both Vietnamese and Chăm artisans.

An exhibition reviewing the development of the Vietnamese Women’s Museum over its 30 years of existence opened in Hà Nội on Saturday.

Nộm da trâu (buffalo skin salad) and  nhót xanh cuốn bắp cải (green elaeagnus latifolia) wrapped in cabbage, are unique and tasty specialties of the ethnic Thái group in the northwestern province of Sơn La.