A photo exhibition titled “Impression” was co-organised by the Hà Nội Photo Journalist Club and the Hà Nội Journalist Association on the occasion of Việt Nam Press Day’s 92th anniversary (June 21, 1925-2017).
American daredevil Erendira Wallenda dangled from her teeth from under a helicopter in a series of eye-watering acrobatic moves over the teeming waters of Niagara Falls on Thursday.
From edible ink printers to chicken stick conveyor belts, Japan’s food firms put it all on the menu at an industry show this week with one bold exhibitor claiming it could turn anyone into a top sushi chef. Newmind’s colour printers can graft almost any image -- a country flag, Hello Kitty face or message to a loved one -- onto cookies and other food just like a conventional printer.
The Việt Nam National Museum of History in Hà Nội will exhibit its collection of around 100 gold-and-red painted wooden artefacts from the 15th century, starting June 20.
Thousands of people will participate in the third International Yoga Day, to be held across nine cities and provinces between June 17 and July 2.
The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera will present the premiere of the contemporary dance Ru Đêm (Night Lullaby), choreographed by Nguyễn Phúc Hùng, Nguyễn Phúc Hải and Sùng A Lùng, at the Opera House on June 18.
Anita Pallenberg, the globe-trotting actress and model who was best known as part of a love triangle within The Rolling Stones, has died, friends said Wednesday. She was 73. Pallenberg, who long struggled with drugs and alcohol, died Wednesday of unspecific causes, actress and friend Stella Schnabel announced on Instagram.
Two watercolours of The Little Prince, French polymath Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s world-famous golden-haired creation, fetched more than half a million euros at auction in Paris today.
Sipping juice in a small café in Hà Nội in early June, Willem Schaftenaar relaxes before his flight home to the Netherlands. Previously, he was busy in Bản Đôn village in Đắk Lắk province’s Buôn Đôn district working with officials of the provincial Elephant Conservation Centre (ECC) to save near-extinct elephants in Việt Nam.
We were desperately searching for a respite from the scorching hot weather that the capital city experienced a week or so ago when a friend suggested the Rooftop.
Series of cultural performances through out a week of the 6th Quảng Nam Heritage Festival showed off the precious values of the central province, and impressively introduced traditional lifestyle and heritages to domestic and international visitors.
All deputies and participants signed the Hội An Declaration on Urban Heritage Conservation and Development 2017 at the International Conference on Urban Heritage in Hội An on Wednesday.
On Thursday, June 22, the FVH (Friends of Vietnam Heritage) Film Night will present the black-and-white movie Bến Không Chồng (Wharf of Widows) by director Lưu Trọng Ninh, who also plays the film’s main character Nguyễn Vạn. Based on a well-known novel of the same title by author Dương Hướng, which was granted the Việt Nam Writers’ Association Award in 1991, the movie was a Berlin International Film Festival selection.
Could the very existence of croissants in France be in danger? Bakers warned Tuesday that a vertiginous rise in the price of butter was slashing their profit margins and threatening an entire industry.
New York on Tuesday renamed a Manhattan street corner after Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, Nobel peace laureate and humanitarian who died last year. The southwest corner of 84th Street and Central Park West on the Upper West Side was permanently renamed "Elie Wiesel Way" at a ceremony attended by city officials under the baking heat of an early summer heatwave.
Poor marketing, brand promotion and dull design were blamed as major obstructions for silk trade of Việt Nam expanding to worldwide.
A Lự woman in Tam Đường District, Lai Châu province listens to radio news. For ethnic minorities in poor remote areas, radio is the main medium used to learn of State and Party policies. — VNS Photo Việt Thanh
French singer and songwriter Joyce Jonathan held three live charity concerts in Việt Nam last week to raise funds for street children through the Poussières de Vie (Dust of Life) organisation. Laureate of the prestigious NRJ Music Awards 2011 in the category Francophone Breakthrough of the year, the 27-year-old singer and songwriter talks with Vương Bạch Liên before her concert in Hà Nội.
The first HCM City Piano Competition kicked off last night with the participation of about 200 contestants. The competition is hosted by HCM City Music Talent Training Conservatory, and it is open to all young professional and amateur pianists from six to 24 years until June 18.
