Việt Nam News

A research team of Hà Tĩnh Museum has discovered a royal decree dating to 1784.

Veteran bachelor Hugh Grant, star of a string of romantic comedies including Four Weddings and a Funeral, is finally getting married for the first time to his Swedish girlfriend.

Bánh tẻ or bánh răng bừa is a specialty of Phụng Công Commune in the northern province of Hưng Yên. Its taste is derived from the sweetness of meat and crispiness of cat’s ear mixed with the soft and flavourful rice powder.

A film on teen love, adapted from a novel by best-selling children’s author Nguyễn Nhật Ánh, will begin shooting this summer in HCM City. 

Internationally acclaimed flutist Nicolas Duchamp and pianist Hélène Jeanney will perform at HCM City’s International Cultural Exchange with France (IDECAF) on May 24 to mark the 100th death anniversary of French composer Debussy.

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Casting for director Nguyễn Quang Dũng’s remake of the Hollywood rom-com 50 First Dates began on Monday in HCM City.

Giang Thị Thảo, a 22-year-old girl from Hà Nội, was crowned the winner of the second Miss Vietnam Festival 2018, which was recently held in Yoyogi Park in Tokyo, Japan.

Authorities in Hoàn Kiếm District have launched new websites providing tourism information on the district.

Already accused of sexual harassment and groping, US celebrity chef Mario Batali now faces allegations that he sexually assaulted impaired women at a New York restaurant, CBS television's 60 Minutes reported on Sunday.

Historian Bernard Lewis, whose influential books shaped generations of Middle East scholars but whose views stirred fierce passions, died at an assisted living facility on Saturday, The Washington Post reported. He was 101.

She's a born rebel: a remote Brazilian island welcomed its first baby in 12 years after a local woman broke the rule against giving birth there.

Mobile apps, smartphones and robots will change the way hotels and resorts operate, with the aim of bringing tourists convenient experiences and managing housekeeping effectively.

Travel firms in HCM City are offering a wide range of outbound and domestic tours including to many new destinations with attractive promotions during the upcoming summer holiday.

OME is a chronic collection of non-infected fluid in the middle ear. The middle ear is an air cavity closed to the outside by the eardrum and ventilated through the eustachian tube connecting the ear to the upper part of the back of the throat, which leads up into the nose.

The HCM City-based Hồng Vân Drama Troupe, a leading private theatre, is offering training courses in performance skills as the number of talented actors has declined in recent years.

The Temple of Literature will host a wide range of cultural activities dedicated to children during the summer holiday, according to Lê Xuân Kiêu, director of the Temple of Literature’s Culture and Science Centre.

Something colourful, something weird, something scary: This is how visitors often choose to describe the 13 beautifully decorated masks from the Torres Strait on display in the exhibition “Evolution: Torres Strait Masks”, which introduces the masks in digital format and opened on Friday at the Việt Nam Museum of Ethnology in Hà Nội.