Việt Nam News

CNN will be broadcasting a short film on Hà Nội in Asia, Europe, North America and the Middle East from June 16 to 28.

The HCM City Photographic Association (HOPA) will officially open its first nude photo exhibition entitled Miền Cổ Tích (Fairytale Land) featuring beautiful artworks by veteran photographer Thái Phiên on June 16.

As many as 30 photographs by students under the guidance of Chuối Photography and photographer Lê Phương featuring children with autism will be displayed in Hà Nội on June 17.

Drummer D.J. Fontana, the last surviving member of Elvis Presley's original band whose hard-driving but self-effacing style helped shape rock percussion, has died, his family said Thursday. He was 87.

Jeff Goldblum, who has been in some of the biggest blockbusters in history, received the 2,638th star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame Thursday and joked: "That's always been my lucky number!"

A concert featuring jazz-fusion and world music by four talented artists will stage in HCM City’s VOH Music One this week.

About 40 Kim Hoàng folk paintings will be shown at the Exhibition House on 93 Đinh Tiên Hoàng as a part of a series of cultural activities taking place at the weekend walking street around Hoàn Kiếm Lake from June 15.

Many Vietnamese football fans are spending up to VNĐ100 million (US$4,400) for tours to Russia to watch the upcoming FIFA World Cup 2018.

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Authorities in the central province of Ninh Thuận are planning to compile a dossier on the Chăm people’s pottery heritage in a bid to secure UNESCO recognition.

An honourary street naming in Detroit for the King of Pop was cancelled on Wednesday.

America breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday after a scruffy brown raccoon was captured safe and sound following a perilous climb up a skyscraper in the northern state of Minnesota.

The Thảo Điền Flea Market will be held at Saigon Outcast from 12 noon to 8pm on June 16 on 188/1 Nguyễn Văn Hưởng Street in HCM City’s District 2.

Huế is conducting a restoration project in a bid to save Diệu Đế, which was considered as a national pagoda under the Nguyễn Dynasty (1802-1945).

Comparing herself to a sponge, French artist Marianne Smolska’s inspiration is derived from all that's around her. She has travelled all over world but decided to settle in Việt Nam where she discovered the endless motivation to create using the materials that fascinate her.

Lacquer paintings belong to the Vietnamese, said Bùi Thị Thanh Mai, deputy-director of the Việt Nam Museum of Fine Arts, while concluding a seminar on lacquer art held yesterday in Hà Nội.

A fusion concert featuring traditional music and beatboxing entitled Nam Nhi (Macho) by singer Ngô Hồng Quang, beatboxer Trung Bảo and a string quintet will be held at L’Espace on June 30, at 8pm.

Manzi will host an experimental concert by four of most beloved artists in Hà Nội’s contemporary music scene on Friday.