Việt Nam News

Officials in charge of cultural affairs from francophone countries in Asia Pacific gathered yesterday in Hà Nội to discuss policies and strategies to develop cultural industries and promote cultural diversity.

Morning dew in the Central Highlands City of Đà Lạt. — VNA/VNS Photo Vũ Đức Lợi

Ngọc Duyên was crowned Miss Global Beauty Queen 2016 and Nam Em was awarded gold medal in the Miss Photogenic category at Miss Earth 2016 on Monday. 

A bamboo building inside Mường Museum, 80 kilometres west of Hà Nội, has just been awarded a silver prize in the Cultural Architecture category by the organisers of the American Architecture Prize 2016.

 Photographs of Việt Nam’s heritage and natural beauty are on display at an exhibition that opened on Sunday in Phan Thiết City in the southern province of Bình Định.

 It took just seven days for Wizard of Oz nostalgics to raise more than $300,000 in a crowdfunding drive to restore Dorothy's iconic slippers to their ruby red glory.

 Seventeen plays attributed to William Shakespeare were written in collaboration with other playwrights, according to an edition of his works coming out this month that uses "big data" to reveal the mixed authorship.

Circus artists and brothers Giang Quốc Cơ and Giang Quốc Nghiệp will entertain audiences in HCM City with an extravagant show at the Opera House next week to celebrate their 15-year career. 

Vietnamese director Đặng Nhật Minh is one of three global filmmakers to be honoured at the 36th Amiens International Film Festival (FIFAM), taking place from November 11 to 19 in Amiens, France. 

A symphony concert with musicians from the Việt Nam National Academy of Music and famed French conductor Henri Pompidor will be held tonight (Tuesday) at the Grand Concert Hall of the Việt Nam National Academy of Music in Hà Nội to celebrate the 60th anniversary of its founding.

Việt Nam is among the leading countries in the world in terms of dishes cooked from different flowers, such as thiên lý (Telosma cordata), ban (Bauhinia variegata) flowers and many others.

Nigerian afro-pop star Wizkid and South Africa's Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya won top prizes at the 2016 MTV Africa Music Awards in Johannesburg on Saturday.

Lady Gaga rose to fame with her shock-inducing outfits and remains the seventh most followed person on Twitter, but on her sober new album, she admits an unease in the era of social media.

French conductor Laurent Boer, director of Ensemble Polyphonique de Choisy-le-Roi, and choir members of the ensemble will hold a concert in HCM City Opera House on October 29.

To your health

Nine films from Peru, Argentina, Cuba, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Panama, Uruguay and Venezuela -- whose embassies are all part of the festival organising committee -- will be screened during the fourth annual Latin American Film Festival from October 24-29 in Hà Nội.

Hà Nội-based artist Nguyễn Minh Nam, whose works reflect cultural issues, is showing a collection of his latest paintings at the Craig Thomas Gallery in HCM City.

As molecular gastronomy is a very new conception for most of Vietnamese people, French chef Raphael Szurek of the Hà Nội’s fine-dining French Grill Restaurant has presented a workshop on the theme for a group of local food bloggers and gastronomy reporters.