Việt Nam News

Visitors to nipa palm forest in Cẩm Thanh commune on the Thu Bồn River will have to pay entrance fees from from next month.

A book fair in celebration of Vietnamese Teachers Day was opened on Wednesday on Nguyễn Văn Bình Book Street in HCM City’s District 1.

Craft Link will hold a handicraft bazaar on the lawns of the Việt Nam Museum of Ethnology on Saturday, from 9am to 4.30pm.

Fairies, brides in black and hand-knit dolls take the runway in Dubai this week for the fifth Arab Fashion Week, a five-day affair focussed on instantly available "ready couture" and pre-collections.

Lectures and demonstrations about ninjas will be held by the Japan Foundation Centre for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam in collaboration with Japanese National University, Mie University on November 16 and 17.

Young dancers of the HCM City-based Urban Dance Group (UDG) troupe will perform in a show “Between Us” featuring contemporary dance.

Vince Grimm and Will Kratz of Cape May County, New Jersey in the United States, visited Việt Nam as tourists in 2000, and ended up making friends with their tour guide. The connection led to an educational foundation supporting fatherless and poor children. 

 A special concert dedicated to pianist and pedagogue Thái Thị Liên, sole survivor among the seven founders of the Việt Nam National Academy of Music (VNAM) will be held on November 23.

Heritage Space, in co-operation with The Hub for Experimental Music and Art DomDom, will begin a series of experimental music called ‘Beyond the Sound’ by a performance featuring drummer/percussionist Will Guthrie on Saturday.

An “Artsy Crafty DIY Workshop” will be held at Oxygen in District 2 on November 25.

The Dragonfly Theatre Company will stage Tony Award-wining comedy Lend Me Tenor by Ken Ludwig at the Soul Convention Complex next week.

French rock band Benighted will present a show at Le Fenetre Soleil on November 27. Formed in 1998, the five-member band plays deathgrind music, a fusion of death metal and grindcore.

Craft villages in the central city, Hội An and Quảng Nam Province will introduce their traditional products and history in the first exhibition at Đà Nẵng city’s Museum on November 17-19^th.

Canadians are less likely to find a good balance between work and family, but are mostly satisfied with their jobs, according to a survey released Tuesday.

A Chagall oil painting shining with love for his first wife and adopted home Paris sold for $28.5 million in New York on Tuesday, almost doubling the artist’s previous auction record, Sotheby’s said.

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Artist Trần Huy Oánh released his book of paintings, titled Kí Họa Thời Chiến - Tâm Huyết Còn Mãi Với Thời Gian (Wartime Sketches – Everlasting Devotion), on November 6 in Hà Nội.