Penny Marshall, the star of ABC's Laverne and Shirley who became one of the most successful female directors in history at the helm of Big, A League of Their Own and a string of other hit movies, has died. She was 75.
Scientists have gathered more evidence of a 14th-century Buddhism centre in an excavation at Am Các Pagoda, Tĩnh Gia District in the central province of Thanh Hóa.
Artist Lương Xuân Đoàn, deputy-head of the Việt Nam Fine Arts Association, shares his opinion about murals in Hà Nội.
DID TV, which produced and owns the series Gạo Nếp Gạo Tẻ (Vương’s Family), has filed a lawsuit against FPT Telecom for infringing its copyright.
Paintings portraying the landscapes of two cities, Hà Nội and Kampen, are being shown in an ongoing exhibition entitled Hà Nội – Hoàng Hà Tùng – Kampen in Kampen, Netherlands.
A portrait of coach Park Hang-seo painted by Trần Thế Vĩnh will be auctioned on December 30 at Chọn’s Auction House to celebrate Việt Nam’s football victory in the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Suzuki Cup.
Twenty-one-year-old Vietnamese student Ola Nguyễn has just won the seventh edition of MasterChef Poland.
Ten lacquer paintings by some of Việt Nam’s masters like Trần Văn Cẩn, Nguyễn Sáng, Nguyễn Tư Nghiêm and Phan Kế An and dozens of prize-wining photos have been on display at an exhibition in Melbourne, Australia.
Les Moonves, the onetime head of CBS, was fired for cause and will not receive a severance package in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations, the television network announced Monday.
Italian fashion label Prada has said it will set up an advisory council on diversity issues after being forced to pull monkey-like keychain figurines from its shelves over accusations of racism.
Each locality in Việt Nam has its own specialty. Hải Dương has its green been cake and Cao Bằng has its bánh khảo (sweet short cake made of roast glutinous rice flour). In Hà Tĩnh the specialty is cu đơ, a candy made of roasted peanuts and molasses and covered with rice pancakes.
Young women who leave their hometowns to work in big cities face many difficulties. Their turbulent lives are reflected in a new TV series entitled Những Cô Gái Trong Thành Phố (Girls in the City).
On the occasion of the National Day of Qatar, Ambassador Mohamed Ismail Al-Emadi sends a message to Việt Nam News readers.
Six series will vie for the best documentary series prize at the 38th National Television Festival from tomorrow until Saturday in the Central Highlands province of Lâm Đồng’s city of Đà Lạt.
Singer Phạm Thu Hà is always trying to break musical boundaries, and her latest offering does just that, with the music video Vũ Điệu Bình Minh (The Dance of Sunrise) featuring her soprano voice accompanied by dance music.
Researcher Sandra Scagliotti, director of the Centre for Research on Việt Nam in Turin, Italy, has recently published a book on Vietnamese food.
US tech star Colin Kroll, who co-founded Vine and popular gaming app HQ Trivia, was found dead Sunday in New York of an apparent drug overdose.
For the first time, Miss Việt Nam H’Hen Niê made it into the top five in the Miss Universe 2018 competition.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse snared North American viewers in its web this weekend, earning US$35.4 million in ticket sales, industry tracker Exhibitor Relations estimated Sunday.
Hồ Văn Lang, who had lived in jungle with his father for more than 40 years in the central province of Quảng Ngãi, will be featured in a new documentary to be released by Docastaway travel company in 2019.
