Việt Nam News

During the last weekend of every month, Việt Nam Chèo Theatre on Kim Mã Street in central Hà Nội welcomes hundreds of visitors to watch how a chèo (Vietnamese traditional opera) play is performed on a large stage in a traditional style.

When veteran Tống Trần Hội attended an exhibition featuring the savage actions of prison wardens across the country during the war, all the haunting memories came flooding back to him.

Kites of different sizes and shapes can be seen at kite-flying festival this month at HCM City’s Đầm Sen Cultural Park.

A photo exhibition entitled “Biomass energy-for a green future” is opening at the Saigon Exhibition Convention Centre in HCM City’s District 7.

The first-ever national-level nude photo exhibition is open here in downtown Hà Nội between July 20 and 27.

Suboi, Việt Nam’s queen of hip hop, on Thursday introduced her new single N-Sao? on Beats 1, a music radio station owned and operated by Apple Inc.

The “Ripe Avocado Season” festival officially kicked off Thursday night in Gia Nghĩa Town in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông.

The second Vietnamese Film Days in Korea has been launched in Seoul with the screening of movie Cô Ba Sài Gòn (The Tailor).

Contemporary art exchange between Việt Nam and Chile in the future was the subject at a seminar held on Thursday in Hà Nội.

Luxury British fashion house Burberry destroyed tens of millions of dollars worth of its fashion and cosmetic products over the past year to protect its brand.

It seems that nowhere else in the northern province of Điện Biên is quite like Tủa Chùa District. Most of the district, located 1,400m above sea level, is covered with rugged rocky mountains. Along with the district’s frequent yet unpredictable natural calamities like landslides and severe thunderstorms, the topography convinces people of the harshness of the land.

Lacquer is the link which unites one artist from Việt Nam and two from France at the painting exhibition “The Soul of Vietnamese Lacquer” at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum.

More than 800 artists from 17 professional art troupes nationwide will compete in the National Music and Dance Competition at the central city’s Trưng Vương Theatre on August 24-31.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai People’s Committee to coordinate with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and relevant agencies to organise the 2018 Central Highlands Gong Cultural Festival.

Writer Nguyễn Ngọc Tư is announced as the laureate of the Literaturpreis Prize 2018 for the German version of her book Cánh Đồng Bất Tận (Endlose Felder).

 More than 50 photos featuring women’s nude bodies by 10 popular artists will be on show in downtown Hà Nội between July 20 and 27.

Huế is holding an event to showcase the performances of 49 children’s art troupes from around the country from July 18 to 21.

Japanese footballer Keisuke Honda is swapping football for finance, after launching a venture capital fund with Hollywood star Will Smith to invest in startups addressing social problems, the striker’s agent said on Wednesday.