Việt Nam News

 The French environmental documentary entitled Demain (Tomorrow) will be shown at the French Cultural Centre (L’espace) on March 31. It is one of eight documentaries the centre will screen this month in honour of several international environmental days. 

The ancient city of Hội An has allocated some sections of four streets – Trần Quý Cáp, Bạch Đằng, Tiểu La and Hoàng Văn Thu – near Hội An market as a space for the third night market to serve tourists looking for shopping opportunities in the city.

It is said each month in Hà Nội is marked by the appearance of its own flower– peach blossom, pomelo flower, ban flower, gạo (red silk cotton tree) flower, loa kèn (lily) flower, lotus, sữa (milkwood), cúc họa mi (white daisy) or phượng (flamboyant).

A talkshow introducing the áo dài and its history to local and international audiences was organised on Thursday in HCM City as part of the city’s HCM City Áo Dài Festival 2018.

 The 2018 Việt Nam Top Fashion Models contest was launched in HCM City this week, with the organisers encouraging young men and women around the country to apply.

Dào San, a market located in the northern mountains at an elevation of 1,500m, is not only a rendezvous for local  people to meet each other, trade agricultural products and make friends, but also an exciting destination for visitors the province of Lai Châu.

 The Vietnamese Women’s Museum opened an art exhibition by female artist Văn Dương Thành yesterday to mark International Women’s Day.

Việt Nam’s number one national radio channel, Xone, has launched its first ever mobile app.

An exhibition of paintings by 70 women artists, highlighting women and love, opened in HCM City to yesterday.    

Vietnamese-German writer Isabelle Muller’s best-selling book Loan-Aus dem Leben eines Phoenix (Loan-From a Life of Phoenix) has been published in Vietnamese.  

Four-time Grammy winner Lionel Richie cemented his legacy in Hollywood Wednesday, plunging his feet and hands into a wet paving slab at the forecourt of the iconic TCL Chinese Theatre.

US toymaker Mattel on Wednesday unveiled a new line of Barbie dolls based on accomplished women that include US snowboarder Chloe Kim, Australian conservationist Bindi Irwin, and Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

Irish rockers The Cranberries said Wednesday they would go ahead with a new album despite the sudden death of singer Dolores O'Riordan in January.

This year Sri Lanka celebrates its 70^th Anniversary of Independence and 48 years of formal diplomatic relations with Việt Nam. Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Việt Nam Hasanthi Urugodawatte Dissanayake shared a message with Việt Nam News readers about the mutual co-operation between two countries and the achievements of Sri Lanka in the recent years.

Four Vietnamese women artists will showcase their paintings at the Spring Song Art Exhibition in Nanjing, capital of China’s Jiangsu Province, from March 8 to 16.

Việt Nam and Poland will perform in the curtain-raiser of the 2018 Đà Nẵng International Fireworks Festival on the central city’s Hàn River on April 30.

 A stone stele created during the reign of King Lê Thái Tổ (1428-33) in the northwest mountainous border province of Lai Châu has been recognised as a national treasure and the memorial site for the king has been listed as a national historical site.

An exhibition of replicas of “sovereignty rocks” and landmarks of the Spratly Archipelago kicked off a wide range of activities organised around the theme “The love of youth and ethnic people for sea and islands”.