Việt Nam News

HÀ NỘI — The spring book street opened in December 19 Street, Hà Nội, on February 18 (the third day of the Lunar New Year), introducing books of different genres to visitors. Apart from existing 16 stalls, other publishing houses also displayed publications. A space for New Year newspapers and calligraphy is also made available. Visitors will have a chance to receive free calligraphy writings.

Proceeds from selling New Year newspapers will be given to school libraries and communal post stations in poor and remote areas. — VNA/VNS Photo Võ Dung.

Crime drama "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" captured five British Bafta film awards on Sunday, including best film, topping an emotionally charged ceremony that featured fashion and rhetoric in support of the fight against sexual harassment sweeping Hollywood.

The opening ceremony for the Pyeongchang Olympics was so cold that artist Marc Ahr used vodka to stop his paint freezing and when his brush threatened to turn to ice he popped it in his mouth.

From classic check baseball caps to shell suits, Christopher Bailey raided the Burberry archive for his final collection at London Fashion Week on Saturday, while looking to the future with the rainbow flag.

An 18th-century cello worth more than a million euros was returned to an award-winning French musician on Saturday after she was robbed at knifepoint in a Paris suburb earlier in the week. 

French photographer Rehahn plans to build a Cơ Tu Museum offering information on the ethnic group living in the mountainous areas of Quảng Nam Province in the centre of the province’s Tây Giang district. The museum will become a display of Cơ Tu culture and rendezvous point for festivals among the ethnic groups living in the province, Thừa Thiên-Huế and Laos.

New York may already be crammed to breaking point with culture and tourist attractions, but on Friday the city added another feather to its cap: Spyscape -- a new museum giving visitors a taste of life as a secret agent.

Thousands of people have been flocking to Văn Miếu (Literature Temple) in downtown Hà Nội during the lunar New Year to ask for calligraphy created by scholars to hang at home for good luck, and as home decorations.

The central city of Đà Nẵng held a warm welcome ceremony at the airport on February 16 for the first 180 tourists visiting the city in the lunar New Year.

A famous novel by the late author Đoàn Giỏi, winner of the State Awards for Literature and Arts in 2001, has been adapted into a movie and will be filmed this summer.

The annual love duet singing festival will be organised on February 27 and 28 in Lim Town, Nội Duệ and Liên Bão Commune, Tiên Du District in the northern province of Bắc Ninh.

Alternative rock icons The Smashing Pumpkins on Thursday announced a nostalgia tour of their 1990s albums featuring the band's classic line-up -- with one exception.

Alfonsina Storni, an early 20th century feminist whose arduous life ended in suicide, is remembered as one of Argentina's foremost modern poets -- but she is far from a household name outside the Spanish-speaking world.

Hoàng Tuấn Anh has realised his start-up dream by creating the first shopping and entertaining complexes in HCM City to use recycled containers.

Book lovers in Hà Nội can enjoy Lunar New Year holiday by reading as many books as they can. A book festival will take place at the Book Street on February 18-25.

The haters are still gonna hate. A judge has ruled that Taylor Swift’s turn of phrase in her hit "Shake It Off" is too banal for copyright infringement.

What lies ahead for the city of Đà Lạt as it tries to accommodate a new tourism model while preserving its unique cultural and architectural heritage?

 For singer Uyên Linh, the age of 30 is wonderful, because at this age she always knows what she wants.