Việt Nam News

Việt Nam increased its number of libraries in communes to 3,257 last year, a growth of 20 per cent compared to 2016, according to a forum on the country’s library system held by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s Library Department in HCM City on Wednesday.

Japanese citizen Takahiro Nonume has a desire to make life more beautiful. And he has chosen Việt Nam to carry out his mission.

Ticket prices for the 2018 Đà Nẵng International Fireworks Festival will range from VNĐ300,000 ($13.3) to VNĐ2 million ($88.5) for each night’s performance on the Hàn River banks between April 30 and June 30.

Đà Nẵng City’s Hoàng Sa (Paracel) Island district opened the Hoàng Sa Museum to the public in a ceremony on Wednesday, marking the 43rd anniversary of the city’s Liberation Day (March 29).

Travel experts and firms discussed strategies to develop the tourism industry in the central coastal province of Bình Định during a seminar held yesterday in Hà Nội.

Holi Festival, also know as the “Festival of Colours”, will take place in Ha Noi’s Kinder Park this Sunday.

Belgium is a small country but it has a rich and diverse heritage to be proud of. Not only being famous in the world for chocolate, fries and diamonds, Belgium is also recognised as the country with the some of the world's best beers.

L’Espace will present a fusion music concert entitled Les Transplantés or Transplanted on April 7.

Top Vietnamese vocalists will perform at Spring Concert: The Warm Arms, which will be held at the Việt Xô Friendship Cultural Palace on April 8.

Areas of the Amazon previously thought to be uninhabited may have been home to up to a million people in the centuries before Christopher Columbus arrived, new archaeological research has found.

Nearly 40,000 books of various genres, including culture, education, politics, economics and literature, are available at a spring book fair hosted by the Vietnamese Women's Museum.

Vietnamese students have won various prizes at the Kyushu Music Concours 2018 held in Kumamoto, Japan.

Vietnamese and Moroccan experts have emphasised the importance of cultural diversity for national unityduring a conference held yesterday in Hà Nội.

A silk painting by Nguyễn Nam Sơn (1890-1973), one of the leading artists in modern Vietnamese fine art, was auctioned at 205,000 euros.

As the country’s economic hub and tourism magnet with name-brand boutiques and a wide variety of local and foreign goods, HCM City has become a veritable shopping mecca, but experts say that tourist spending remains at a low level.

Việt Nam’s world-renowned concert pianist Đặng Thái Sơn has confirmed that he will join the piano faculty at Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio, United States this fall.

The life and work of artists during the resistance is portrayed truthfully in a recently released photo book containing the work of late photographer Trần Văn Lưu.

Nana Chen is a Taiwanese photographer currently working on a variety of projects. She served as an arts columnist for the South China Morning Post in 2005 after holding many positions like violinist, teacher, textbook writer and lifestyle and travel journalist and photographer for newspapers and magazines.