Việt Nam News

After a little over six months living in Việt Nam I think I have learned a fair old chunk of the language. Certainly enough to get me by.

I can ask for a beer, two beers and even three. I also know how to tell a Grab driver to turn left, right, and even carry on straight ahead.

A public art project entitled Into Thin Air 2 will be launched at Manzi Art Space on October 7, at 3.30pm.

Alpha Books yesterday launched the Vietnamese edition of “Building the Internet of Things: Implement New Business Models, Disrupt Competitors, and Transform Your Industry”, a global bestseller by Maciej Kranz, one of the pioneers of IoT.

The Die Fledermaus operetta composed by Johann Strauss II will be staged on October 28 at the Opera House at 7 Lam Sơn Square in HCM City.

The Friends of Vietnam Heritage (FVH) will organise two city walks on October 8 and 12.

Artists will have to be deemed loyal to Việt Nam to be nominated for some of the country’s top awards, following the release of a Government decree.

The 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi will inspire many of us to continue Mahatma Gandhi’s mission of bringing about a more peaceful, harmonious and non-violent world.

Various cultural activities about the Mekong Delta will take place throughout October at the Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism in the western outskirts of Hà Nội.

Karl Lagerfeld took Chanel for a paddle in the sea on Tuesday, creating a huge beach with real waves for his joyously zingy Paris fashion week show.

Pop star Đông Nhi will give two performances at the second Japan – ASEAN Music Festival 2018 in Tokyo tomorrow.

Professionals from Việt Nam, France and Germany will share their experiences and insights about risky play through a seminar held in Hà Nội on Saturday. 

Korean pop star Sunmi and boy band Seventeen will perform in a South Korean and Vietnamese exchange concert in HCM City later this month.

Experts are always concerned about how to best manage the preservation and development of heritage and relic sites. Architecture Lê Thành Vinh, former head of the Relics Preservation Institute spoke about heritage the preservation of relic sites.

Visitors from across the country flocked to the 2018 Lam Kinh Festival at the Lam Kinh Historic Site Complex in Thanh Hóa Province over the weekend.

Organisers of Asia's largest film festival have issued a rallying cry to its supporters as the event emerges from years of starring in its own political drama. 

Bánh nếp nhân trứng kiến, glutinous rice cakes filled with ant eggs, are a specialty of the Tày, an ethnic group that has existed for hundreds of years in the northern province of Tuyên Quang.

 The project Month of Arts Practice 2018 (MAP) called Visible/Invisible has begun in Hà Nội, gathering local and foreign artists.