Việt Nam News

US singer Alicia Keys and fashion designer Stella McCartney launched a new breast cancer awareness campaign Monday aimed at African American women who have much higher mortality rates than white women.

Obesity is a disease and needs to be treated as such. It has become endemic in Western countries with more than 20% of the population affected. Although the rate in Việt Nam is low, with only 1% considered obese, the trend has been growing.

With the motto of ‘giving values to the community’, the 40-year-old herbal medicine practitioner Phan Thanh Long and his four friends spent 58 days walking across Việt Nam to deliver free herbal medicine and health check up for more than a thousand disadvantaged people.

One of this year’smain celebrations in Hà Nội was held for the first time at a unique venue, the 11^th century Temple of Literature, a Confucian temple that was also the site of one of the world’s first universities.

The show "A Night of Ballet" will include works by Vietnamese and French choreographers at the HCM City Opera House tonight.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is shining in many colours at the Văn Miếu-Quốc Tử Giám, the Temple of Literature, in Hà Nội.

The annual Nghinh Ông Festival, which shows fishermen's respect for the whale and gratitude for a bumper catch, will take place in HCM City’s Cần Giờ District on October 3-5.

The Executive Committee of the HCM City’s Women Union organised a Food and Cultural Festival to celebrate the 50^th anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) today.

Four hundred disadvantaged children from HCM City’s districts Tân Bình, Bình Tân, Gò Vấp, 1 and 8 will get gifts and enjoy an entertainment programme during the upcoming Mid-autumn Festival.

A special exhibition of works by four young graphic designers, newly graduates of the London College for Design and Fashion (LCDF), opens in Hà Nội today.

The Museum of Modern Art is staging an exhibit of iconic clothing and accessories to examine the relationship between fashion and society.

He is known as the master of shade, and now 21st Century technology is shedding new light on the creative process behind Caravaggio's groundbreaking painting.

Visitors to the Mekong Delta province of Long An should head for the wonders park in Đức Hoà District to admire miniatures of some of the world’s wonders.

The Việt Nam Culinary Conservation, Research and Development Centre was inaugurated in HCM City last week to research into and introduce Vietnamese foods and train chefs for restaurants and hotels, thus supporting tourism development.

This is the first time most collections of the Việt Nam Fashion Week (VFW) Spring-Summer 2018 are designed in traditional types of fabric such as silk, tussore, grass cloth, cotton and linen.