Việt Nam News

An experimental exhibition exploring art mixed with technology will open on August 25 in Hà Nội.

 Hotel de l’ Opera Hanoi will host an annual Charity Bazaar to raise funds for children and families affected by HIV/AIDS on August 18.

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Vietnamese phở has been named the world’s 20^th best food experience by world travel guide book publisher the Lonely Planet.

 Two Vietnamese photographers, Đào Tấn Phát and Lê Đức Toại, have won gold medals at the Third International Circular of Photography “Grand M.S.M Circuit 2018”.

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 France-based Vietnamese film director Trần Anh Hùng will host a talk on the Special Language of Cinema on August 17 and 20 in HCM City.

Actor Ethan Peck -- whose grandfather was Hollywood legend Gregory Peck -- has been cast as iconic half-Vulcan science officer Spock in CBS's Star Trek: Discovery.

 One of China's biggest and wealthiest film stars, actress Fan Bingbing, has disappeared from public view as authorities probe alleged tax evasion by entertainers, sparking growing fan speculation over her fate.

Ambassador of India to Việt Nam Parvathaneni Harish sends a message on India’s Independence Day (August 15).

South Korean percussionist Gina Hyungi Lee will perform at the concert Gõ by Gina Hyungi Lee at Soul Live Project Complex in HCM City on August 17.

The German opera Der Freischütz was reinterpreted in Vietnamese as Nhà Thiện Xạ, and staged in July this year. The performance proved popular with audiences, especially young theatre-goers. The choreographer behind the opera, Nguyễn Phúc Hùng, who is also Chief Choreographer of the Hồ Chí Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO), and his colleagues at the HBSO completed the work in co-operation with the Goethe Institute. Thành Vinh spoke to Hùng about the project and his career as a choreographer.

Artists from the Việt Nam Tuồng Theatre recently staged a Singaporean popular epic titled Bukit Merah.

More than 20 Vietnamese and foreign classical musicians will perform at the Vietnam Connection Music Festival 2018 at the HCM City Opera House this weekend.

Renowned chèo (popular opera) artists like Thanh Ngoan, Đoàn Vinh and Tuấn Tài will perform together in the classic chèo play entitled Quan Âm Thị Kính (Goddess of Mercy) which will be staged at the Việt Nam Chèo Theatre on August 25.

The Hà Nội August Old Book Fair will take place at the Culture and Arts Exhibition Centre, No 2 Hoa Lư Street, Hai Bà Trưng District between August 16 and 19.

Music legend Aretha Franklin is "gravely ill" and surrounded by family and friends in Detroit, reports said yesterday, as prayers and well wishes poured in for the Grammy-winning 'Queen of Soul.'

Scientists on Monday unveiled a previously unknown species of giant pterosaur, the first creatures with a backbone to fly under their own power.