Daily life plays muse for watercolour painters

Eleven artists are introducing watercolour paintings with their latest exhibition titled Đồng Chất (Homogeneity) at the HCM City Museum of Fine Arts.  

Heritage fest shows off rituals, costumes

One thousand colorful wheels will decorate Đào Duy Từ Street of Hà Nội’s Old Quarter on Nov. 23, part of a festival celebrating Vietnamese heritage that begins today.

Renowned Israeli conductor to perform in VN

Shalev Ad-El, a renowned Israeli conductor, will lead the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Vietnam National Academy of Music.

Stories through the Lens: Dry rice farmers of border town

Around this time of the year, residents of the border town Bù Gia Mập, in Southeast province of Bình Phước are busy with their dry rice harvest. Many of the town’s residents are of Stieng origin, an ethnic group with a population of 80,000, one of some fifty-plus ethnic groups in the country.

Mông culture day kicks off in Hà Giang

The Mông Culture Day held by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Hà Giang’s People committee started on November 18 in northern mountainous Hà Giang Province. The event aims to introduce, honour and promote the traditional cultural values of Mông group, one of the 54 different ethnic minorities in Việt Nam

HCM City Consular Club to host charity bazaar

The HCM City Consular Club representing consulates in the city will hold its 23rd annual International Charity Bazaar on November 26 at the White Palace Convention Centre in HCM City’s Phú Nhuận District.

Peaceful beauty at a southern lake

Trị An Lake is an isolated destination because of being little known by tourists. The area is thinly populated and few vehicles go by so that you will have huge chances to enjoy absolute quietness in here. Local people lead a peaceful life. Every day, they drive their boats to catch fish in the lake then sell them to far markets. Life has been going easy on them.

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