Việt Nam News

Xôi (sticky rice) is a common food made from sticky glutinous rice steamed or cooked. It’s prevalent at opulent restaurants, rustic booths on pavements and baskets of vendors sitting at small corners.

A talk show celebrating the year of Henryk Sienkiewicz was held on November 14 to commemorate the great novelist of Poland. In Việt Nam, there are more than one hundred Polish literature works of classic and modern genre translated in Vietnamese. 

The Japanese master of animation is thought to be preparing his 12th feature film, three years after announcing his retirement.

Hard rock chart-toppers Aerosmith on Monday announced a "farewell" tour for 2017, although they stopped short of saying the shows will be their last.

An unpublished sketchbook of Vincent Van Gogh's will be presented in Paris, ahead of the release in several countries of a new book displaying the works.

Ok Om Bok Festival, also called the Festival of Worshipping the Moon, took place in the Ao Ba Om (Ba Om Pond) relic site in the southern province of Trà Vinh.

On occasion of the King’s Day in Belgium on Tuesday (November 15), Việt Nam News presents an article written by Belgium Ambassador to Việt Nam, Jehanne Roccas.

The ’supermoon’ seen from Hà Nội yesterday. The event is the closest the moon has come to Earth in almost seven decades and is the closest it will come to the planet until 2034. — VNA/VNS Photo Minh Đức

Abu Dhabi's Louvre museum said it was commissioning renowned artists Giuseppe Penone and Jenny Holzer to create artworks to be displayed at its grand opening next year.

Nearly one thousand youngsters participated in the Dance for Kindness flash mob on Hà Nội’s pedestrian streets on Sunday to celebrate and promote World Kindness Day. The event also calls on people to overcome every circumstance and territorial, cultural and religious border to create a world of trust, belief and love.

Leon Russell, who achieved rare fame as a session musician by playing with artists from The Rolling Stones to Elton John and pursuing his own eclectic career, has died. He was 74.

Vietnamese architect Hoàng Thúc Hào has recently become the first Vietnamese person to receive the SIA-Getz Architecture Prize for Emergent Architecture in Asia.

An exhibition and award ceremony of sculptural and architectural icons which are placed in front of head offices, buildings, urban zones, parks, public sites have been held at Hà Nội Museum last week.

One of the world’s largest Buddha statues carved from precious jade will be displayed at Hội An Pagoda in Bình Dương Province from November 18-23.

The capital’s authorities have approved a plan to set up a fixed book street on December 19 Street, which links Hai Bà Trưng and Lý Thường Kiệt Street in downtown Hà Nội.

Canadian culinary specialties will be presented at Savour Canadian Delights event in Hà Nội from now to November 18 as part of Canadian food branding series.