Ministry holds gastronomy festival

A gastronomy festival showcasing the diversity of Vietnamese and international cuisines will be held on Sunday at the Vạn Phúc Diplomatic Compound.

Drummer in popular rock band Da Vàng dies at 46

Rocker and drummer Trần Nhã of the band Da Vàng (Yellow Skin), one of the region’s most popular rock bands, died on December 1 in HCM City at the age of 46. The cause was an unspecified illness.

Artist creates beauty from happiness

Manzi Art Space, in collaboration with Art Vietnam Gallery will present Không & Nghĩa/ No & Meaning, a solo exhibition by visual artist Nguyễn Minh Thành, one of the most important artists of contemporary art in Việt Nam today.

Food Fest this weekend

Food Fest 2017 will be held in HCM City this weekend following its great success in Hà Nội in April.

 

Origami event this month

A workshop “Origami: Fold and Unfold the Miracle” will take place at Blanc Art Space from December 15-17.

Colonial records on display

A workshop held in the capital on Tuesday brought together dozens of French and Vietnamese specialists on records and archives to review a stack of documents dating back to the French colonial period.

Artist finds herself in abstract expressionist painting

For artist Trần Thị Thu, abstract expressionist painting is a medium in which she can find herself. It’s fitting, then, that her first solo exhibition at the Việt Nam Museum of Fine Arts bears her name, titled Thu.

Int’l Nutcracker to run in HCMC

The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will open the Christmas season this week with the ballet The Nutcracker at the Opera House this week, featuring a conductor from Norway and dancers from Japan.

Cikada Prize appreciates poet’s sensitivity: judge

Last Friday, Vietnamese poet Mai Văn Phấn received the prestigious Cikada Prize from chairman of the jury, Dr Lars Vargo, a distinguished fellow from Sweden’s Institute for Security & Development Policy at the Temple of Literature in Hà Nội.

Việt Nam’s folk singing revived with UN recognition

Six years ago, Vietnamese xoan singing joined the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) list of intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent safeguarding during its 2011 meeting in Bali.

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