Việt Nam News

Dozens of photos featuring landscapes and people of Laos as well as the friendship betwen Laos and Việt Nam are on display in downtown Hà Nội.

In old indigenous Latin American cultures, women toil at farming and tackle family duties. Atop this remote Mexican mountain, they also slap on sandals and crush pro athletes on long-distance runs.

The Quảng Ngãi Sea and Island Culture Week will be held on the South Central Coast of the Quảng Ngãi Province and other coastal districts at the end of August.

A concert featuring Laotian artists and celebrating the country, its people and the relationship between Việt Nam and Laos will be held at the Hà Nội Opera House tonight.

Singer Phạm Phương Thảo has released her DVD-CD album called Tri Ân (Gratitude) y to pay tribute to fallen soldiers on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of War Veterans Day, which is on July 27.

US filmmaker George A. Romero, whose 1968 cult classic Night of the Living Dead spawned the zombie movie genre, died on Sunday aged 77.

Languidly ploughing flooded paddy-fields, Thailand’s buffaloes don’t usually strike people as the quickest of beasts. But farmers in eastern Thailand on Sunday showed off their fastest bovines in a unique, muddy speed test.

cap

International brandnames are starting to grab the attention of HCM City's clothes-conscious people, clearing the way for more ready-to-wear clothing stores in Việt Nam.   

A new classical music programme will be staged twice a month in HCM City with the aim of attracting young people to the genre.

The annual singing and dance festival for children Búp Sen Hồng (Pink Lotus) will be held in HCM City from July 17-19.

HCM City has two new venues for puppetry and circus art at Trần Hữu Trang Theatre and Children’s House of HCM City.

The Đại Hưng Pottery Workshop has kept its fire burning for nearly 160 years. Located in Tương Bình Hiệp District in southern Bình Dương Province, the workshop produces tens of thousands of pottery pieces every year, with its main product line consisting of water vases of various sizes.

Muscle Contest Viet Nam will be held for the first time at Military Zone 7 Competition Centre on August 19.

A two-hectare wild-orchid reserve in the Troh Bư Botanic Garden in Đắk Lắk Province has been recognised as the largest of its kinds in the country by the Việt Nam Record Organization (ViệtKings).

Việt Nam has become a major tourist market for Japan and the island nation hopes to attract more Vietnamese visitors, said Kuroiwa Yuji, governor of Kanagawa Prefecture, at a seminar held on Thursday in Ha Noi to promote Kanagawa tourism.

Hope the blue whale took over as the centrepiece of the revamped atrium of London's Natural History Museum on Thursday despite a spirited campaign to keep its much-loved predecessor, Dippy the dinosaur.

As Game of Thrones returns for its penultimate season Sunday, fans of the award-winning fantasy epic are getting an early fix at a pop-up bar in Washington, complete with a fire-breathing dragon, coats of armor and bartenders who are dressed the part.