Việt Nam News

The Consulate General of Canada in HCM City in collaboration with Soul Live Project will host a piano concert “From Far and Wide” on November 3  to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Canada.

The Friends of Vietnam Heritage’s cultural series will continue on Sunday with a presentation by Hồ Trọng Minh, a banknote designer, who was only 29 when he created the widely used VNĐ500,000 note. He was also the first to document and consolidate information on Vietnamese paper money.

Stand-up Hanoi will present an evening with female comediennes tonight ast the Standing Bar.

American maestro Hector Guzman and Vietnamese-American violinist Vũ Việt Chương will perform at a concert featuring operatic works and songs from movie soundtracks at the HCM City Opera House on Sunday (Oct 29).

An exhibition entitled Vùng Không Tưởng – Utopia Land, featuring artworks by artists from seven different countries, will open at Heritage Space on Sunday.

More than 800,000 local and international visitors are expected to participate in a South Korea culture expo to be held in HCM City next month.

Scientists and representatives of relevant organisations and local authorities in central Thanh Hóa Province have gathered to conduct surveys and hold a conference to discuss the damage to Hồ Citadel.

The annual ASEAN Trade Fair, themed “Taste the Happiness”, kicked off on Wednesday in Seoul, displaying food and beverage products from the ten ASEAN member states.

The South Korean Culture and Food Festival 2017 will see performances by popular artists of Korea and Việt Nam from October 27 to 29. 

Vietnamese Film Days, will be held in Moscow from October 27 to 31 at Illusion Cinema showcasing five award winning movies from Viêt Nam.

The celebrated violinist Andre Rieu has appealed in court against an "absurdly high" 116,000-euro (US$136,400) fine – issued for allowing children to perform in his show past the legal time limit set by Dutch law, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

US fashion photographer Terry Richardson, who has been accused of sexually exploiting models for years, will no longer have his work published in some of the world’s top magazines, Conde Nast confirmed on Tuesday.

Trần Nhật Minh, who graduated as Master of Music in Conducting at Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Conservatory and works at HCM City Ballet Symphony and Orchestra,  recently appeared on a television game show titled Wonderkids as musical director. Conductor Minh spoke about classical music and how to inspire audiences.

Two historic steam locomotives that were repatriated to Switzerland from Đà Lạt in 1990 became part of the European country’s celebration of the restored Furka Pass rack railway late last week.

Artists from 45 countries and territories gathered at an International Watercolor Biennale which started on Monday.

More than 100 tonnes of precious old and new books will be sold very cheaply, with prices starting from VNĐ1,000, at northern Việt Nam’s  largest book fair. It will be held from October 26-29 inside the Temple of Literature at 58 Quốc Tử Giám Street.

The Hollywood sexual abuse scandal widened Monday after 38 women were reported to have accused US film director James Toback of unwanted sexual encounters over a period of decades.

Young director Nguyễn Ngọc Mai won three Golden Lotus Bud prizes this year for her documentary Lẫn.