Last Friday, Vietnamese poet Mai Văn Phấn received the prestigious Cikada Prize from chairman of the jury, Dr Lars Vargo, a distinguished fellow from Sweden’s Institute for Security & Development Policy at the Temple of Literature in Hà Nội.
Six years ago, Vietnamese xoan singing joined the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) list of intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent safeguarding during its 2011 meeting in Bali.
The 6th International Tourism Mart kicked off on December 5 in Guwahati, a major city in India’s northeast in the state of Assam.
Photo of the Day - Winter sunbathing
An “Exhibition of Tourism Photos of Argentina” opened at HCM City’s Youth Cultural House last night.
Artists from the central city of Đà Nẵng will show off their 60 works of paintings, sculpture, lacquer, oil and canvas, water colour in an exhibition at the city’s Fine Arts Museum from December 6-12.
Letters written by Greta Garbo that provide a rare glimpse into the loneliness that haunted one of the 20th century's most enigmatic Hollywood stars will be auctioned in London next week.
Rising fashion star Jonathan Anderson struck a double blow at London’s Fashion Awards on Monday, claiming the prizes for best Accessories Designer and best British Designer for Womenswear.
A photo of Trường Sa Lớn Island in the Spratlys seen from a seaplane won a gold medal from the International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP) in the landscape section.
Mr. Bùi Ngọc Thái puts on his plastic gloves and carefully mixes the thin layers of lean pork meat, lard and skin with some salt, MSG and thính, the golden roast rice grounded into a brownish powder. The pleasant fragrance of thính started to fill the room.
Through Việt Nam News, Ambassador of Thailand to Việt Nam, Manopchai Vongphakdi, expressed his felicitations to my fellow Thai citizens residing in Việt Nam and Thais all over the world, on the auspicious occasion of the national day of Thailand on December 5. This day is of particular significance to the Thai people for three special occasions, namely the National Day of Thailand, the Birthday Anniversary of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, and Thailand’s Father’s Day.
Foreigners working and living in the central city of Đà Nẵng will compete in ‘Đà Nẵng’s Expat Got Talent 2017’, themed ‘New Year coming’, at the city’s Trưng Vương Theatre on December 17-18th.
After three months of being shut for annual restoration, Hồ Chí Minh Mausoleum will be reopened for the public tomorrow.
Photo of the Day - Beauty of Labour
The catwalk has met the auctioneer's gavel and gone online.
An Egyptian-European mission has discovered 27 fragmented statues of the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet across the Nile from Egypt's southern city of Luxor, the antiquities ministry said on Sunday.
Readers especially children are invited to join a journey through one of the wildest and most biodiverse parts of the world - a range of rugged mountains bordering Laos and Việt Nam, Trường Sơn Mountain Range.
Nguyễn Thanh Giang, a 12-year-old student in Hà Nội, was impressed by a photo of the Sphingidae Moth Caterpillar terrifying predators with its snake-like shape.
Quảng Nam Province’s first-ever Korean Day Festival and Korean Film Week will take place from December 11 to 17 in Tam Kỳ City to mark the 25th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Việt Nam and the Republic of Korea.
