Việt Nam News

At Phan Kim Ngân’s house, visitors can make their own local traditional cakes and enjoy a buffet consisting of nearly 50 kinds of cakes. Ngân’s is one of many households offering community-based tourism services on Cồn Sơn or Sơn Islet, located in Bình Thủy District in the southern city of Cần Thơ.

A group of artists from Việt Nam known as Art Labor and Joan Jonas will attend the 57th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the US.

Madonna, the Queen of Pop, appears to have travelled to the former imperial city of Marrakech in western Morocco to celebrate her 60th birthday yesterday.

The capital city’s first ever rose park will open soon in Long Biên District, 10km east of the city centre.

An exhibition of 200 photos and documents of the Nghê – a sacred animal that guards temples and communal houses – has been in display at the central city’s Fine Arts Museum, promoting the unique feature of the traditional art of Việt Nam that had been preserved in the community for centuries.

Japanese popular singer Ueno Yuuka, who was appointed the Goodwill Ambassador for the 16th annual Hội An-Japan Cultural Exchange, will join environmental protection activities in Cẩm Thanh commune as part of the annual event on August 17-19.

An arts programme of music, poems and plays will be held at the Hanoi Opera House on August 26 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of renowned Vietnamese poets and married couple Lưu Quang Vũ and Xuân Quỳnh.

The HCM City Museum on August 16 celebrated its 40th anniversary with an exhibition featuring the history of the South from 1698 to 1945.

The Food and Tourism Week opens today in the Golden City area in Long Xuyên City in southern province of An Giang.

 Manzi Art Space will host Sommerabend, a chamber concert featuring the best cellists of Hà Nội and their friends from Japan.

Miss Universe Việt Nam 2017 H’Hen Niê has been named the ambassador for Room to Read, a global non-profit organisation focused on literacy and girls’ education. 

A festival featuring ví and giặm folk singing of Nghệ Tĩnh, named an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, will kick off on Friday in the central province of Hà Tĩnh.

Legendary Soviet children's writer and creator of the USSR's most popular cartoon characters Eduard Uspensky died in his home in the Moscow suburbs at the age of 80 late on Tuesday.

Previously hidden archaeological sites have emerged in fields across Britain after the hot, dry summer exposed new cropmarks, the Historic England agency said on Wednesday. Aerial photographs have exposed patterns which reveal the sites of prehistoric settlements, burial mounds and Iron Age, Bronze Age and Roman farms.

When they reach the age of 60, many people choose to leave the stresses of work behind and instead enjoy their gardens, books, friends and families. But French sculptor Olivier Oet has found his interest in supporting needy children at a social centre in the central city of Huế.

Abstract acrylic paintings by Nguyễn Ngọc Phương are on display at an exhibition in Hà Nội.

Việt Nam National Opera and Ballet (VNOB) will premiere a contemporary dance entitled Đáy Mắt (In The Eye) – a collaboration by choreographer Bùi Ngọc Quân and musician Trí Minh on August 19 at Hà Nội Opera House.

A talk show revealing the history and art of the Vietnamese áo dài (traditional dress) as well as modern designs will take place with narration from designer Vũ Việt Hà.