Việt Nam News

The Saigon Classical Music Group will host a Classical Favourites II concert on October 20 at Morico in HCM City.

Manzi Art Space will present an experimental concert featuring Kryshe, Sound Awakener and zither artist Nguyễn Thùy Dung on October 20.

The multi-talented artist Stanford Reid from Brooklyn, New York is back to Hà Nội after touring Việt Nam and will have a live music night in Heritage Space on Sunday.

A concert celebrating the tenth birthday of Hanoi Grapevine, a popular website providing arts and culture, will be held on Saturday.

To mark the National Day of the Kingdom of Spain on October 12, Việt Nam News presents an article written by the Ambassador of Spain to Việt Nam, María Jesús Figa López-Palop

A European language festival in Hà Nội will allow visitors to learn English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish and learn about the diversity of the continent.

The Việt Nam Culinary Culture Association was established in HCM City on Wednesday.

The fourth Vietnam Junior Fashion Week 2017 (VJFW 2017) will be held in HCM City from October 13 to 15.  

A vertical photo depicting a papaya tree rising from a narrow gap between  residential buildings in HCM City, taken by Trần Vũ Quang Duy, won first prize at a photo contest for young Vietnamese artists.

The Government unveiled an action plan on Monday to transform the tourism sector into the country’s economic engine, following the Poliburo’s decision to pursue that goal.

 Choreographer and theatre director Tấn Lộc and his young staff will stage a musical drama for children at HCM City’s Bến Thành Theatre this week.

Vietnamese film Mỹ Nhân (The Beautiful Woman) by director Đinh Thái Thụy will open the APEC Film Week 2017, which runs this week in Hà Nội and Đà Nẵng in conjuction with APEC Việt Nam 2017.

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With almost ninety per cent of its population being the ethnic people, Hà Giang’s food is unique and diverse. Among the well known dishes like thắng cố (simmer horse’s meat and offals), thắng dền (boiled glutinous rice dumplings), grilled alga, one should not miss cháo ấu tẩu, a porridge made by rice, pork bone and ấu tẩu root.

The annual Science Film Festival is bringing 19 science films mostly targeting young people in Việt Nam’s big cities, with screenings beginning this month and running until December 7.

Scholar Huỳnh Thúc Kháng Memorial House in Tiên Phước District  in the central province of Quảng Nam will get a new facelift as a its innovation project will receive a total investment of VNĐ50 billion (US$2,2 million) which has been approved by the provincial People’s Committee.

Vietnamese blockbusters will be shown for free for a month at CGV cinemas nationwide.

A psychology student from Belarus, Aleksandra Chichikova, was chosen Miss Wheelchair World in the first-ever edition of the beauty pageant held in Warsaw.