Việt Nam News

The number of international visitors to Việt Nam in the first ten months of 2017 was estimated at 10.47 million.

Paintings by top Egyptian artists shared wall space with hieroglyphs and Pharaonic relics at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum this week in an exhibition highlighting ancient influences on contemporary art.

Hollywood may be suffering through a spiritless patch but Halloween films can still lend a needed jolt, as Lionsgate’s new Jigsaw horror film and a clutch of other scary films showed by boosting an otherwise flimsy weekend box office.

Over nearly a century of rule in Việt Nam, the French aimed to build a “French-style administrative capital in Indochina”. That legacy today is visible in many edifices that feature Western-style architecture and combinations of Vietnamese and Western attributes.

The 7^th Đà Lạt Flower Festival will be organised in the Central Highlands province of Lâm Đông from December 23-27.

Lê Âu Ngân Anh, a 22-year-old beauty from the Mekong Delta province of Tiền Giang, was crowned Miss Ocean Việt Nam 2017 in a finale at Hòa Bình Theatre, HCM City on October 28.

What we commonly call a cold is a benign and frequent infection of the nose and throat. The medical term is viral rhinitis or acute rhino-pharyngitis. The cause is a virus. There are over 100 different viruses that can cause a cold.

An art exchange titled October Epic will be held at the Việt Nam-Russia Culture Palace in Hà Nội on November 1.

On the occasion of the National Day of the Republic of Turkey on October 29, Việt Nam News presents an article written by the Ambassador of Turkey in Việt Nam Akif Ayhan

The Breast Cancer Network Vietnam (BCNV) is calling for hair donations as part of the Pink Hat Festival, which will be held on Sunday to raise awareness, especially among women, about the threat of breast cancer.

Phia Thắp is a small community of  50 homes in the northern border province of Cao Bằng. Besides agriculture, the tiny hamlet is well-known for incense, an ancient trade passed down for hundreds of years.. Everyone in the community, from grandmothers to children take pride in the trade.

Designer Nguyễn Công Trí will open the Việt Nam International Fashion Week (VIFW) Fall/Winter 2017, which will take place in Hà Nội from October 31 to November 3.

Local audience will have chance to enjoy a series of traditional theater performances from Việt Nam and China troupes from Saturday till Monday.

Kenneth Branagh joined the galaxy of screen icons to leave their mark on Hollywood on Thursday as he plunged his hands and feet into cement at the TCL Chinese Theater.

The Disney Channel is set to introduce a gay storyline for the first time, it said on Thursday, as a teenage character in one of its shows struggles with his sexuality.

The deteriorating mirror house inside Thống Nhất Park in downtown Hà Nội was recently redecorated with ceramic paintings by popular painter Nguyễn Thu Thủy and her colleagues from Tân Hà Nội (New Hà Nội) Company.

Vietnamese-French pianist Trí Nguyễn will perform during the Chuyện Lãng Du (Wandering Stories) concert at the Voice of HCM City’s Music Hall this week.

A film festival opening in Việt Nam today will feature 11 Japanese movies, documentaries and animated cartoons.