Việt Nam News

Phạm Thị Mỹ Huyền has surpassed 19 other contestants to be crowned Miss Hoa Lư 2018 at a ceremony held in the northern province of Ninh Bình on Sunday.

Fans and worshippers celebrated the life of Aretha Franklin at her father's Baptist church in Detroit on Sunday, with her powerful voice again ringing out within its walls in tribute to her spectacular career.

An open-air cải lương (reformed opera) show starring one of the region’s most talented young artists will be held at the Lê Thị Riêng Park in Bạc Liêu City this weekend.

A turning point in Vietnamese cartoon history has been marked with the recent launch of the first three episodes of the cartoon series Monta Trong Dải Ngân Hà Kỳ Cục (Monta in a Weird Galaxy).

Through paintings of dogs, artist Bùi Hoàng Dương expresses the stories of humans in society.

American contrabass artist Jeff Bradetich and clarinetist John Scott will perform at the 2018 Vietnam Connection Music Festival this week.

Having flat feet means that your feet have low or no arches and press almost completely flat against the ground. The arch, or instep, is the middle part of the foot that's usually raised off the ground when you stand, while the rest of the foot remains flat on the ground.

Traditional festivals, cuisine and the arts of ethnic groups living in the central region will be reflected during a festival held August 24-26 in the central province of Quảng Nam. 

A Vietnamese Book Week opened at a bookstore in Tokyo, Japan, last Friday.

The Việt Nam Ethnic Groups’ Culture Museum in northern province has hosted various exhibitions, folk art shows, and traditional games over the weekend.

The lotus is the major theme of the “Tâm Linh” (Spiritus) art exhibition at the HCM City Exhibition Centre, which opens on August 18.

Heavy rains in the past weeks has resulted in high level of water and strong curents on streamlines and rivers in northern provicne of Điện Biên. Despite the danger, local children have taken risks to gather floating woods in fierce streams.

HCM City is seeing positive changes to the local puppetry scene, according to authorities.

A ritual festival for worshipping Mother Goddess will start today and end on Monday next week in the Hòn Chén Temple, a monument built by kings under the Nguyễn Dynasty (1802-1945) hundreds years ago.

What the works demonstrate so well is a sharp and strangely peaceful view on these living conditions that people faced with humor, and sometimes even with a surprising joy.

This year will mark the 45th anniversary of the diplomatic ties between Việt Nam and Japan, and the 15th landmark of the relationship of Japan and the central Quảng Nam Province.

Thousands of locals on August 16 attended the first Việt Nam Puppetry Festival on HCM City’s Nguyễn Huệ Pedestrian Street, which closes on August 18.

A traditional theatre programme offering tuồng and hát bội (classical drama) will be staged free on HCM City’s Bùi Viện Walking Street on Sunday to celebrate the 73rd anniversary of the 1945 August Revolution (August 19).