Việt Nam News

Oscar nominees Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon electrified audiences at the Toronto film festival Sunday with their portrayals of Thomas Edison and his rival in the race for marketable electricity, George Westinghouse.

Sleep apnea is a potentially serious medical disorder in which breathing becomes very shallow or stops briefly during sleep. When this occurs, the sleeper is partly awoken and the brain commands the body to breath.

Despite the death of a buffalo owner at Hải Phòng’s traditional buffalo fighting festival in July, anthropologists and tourism experts argued at a conference that the festival should continue and be promoted to tourists.

The recent Việt Nam Fashion Week honoured collections made from natural material, including the tough, long-wearing hemp fibre. It was the first time most collections of the fasion week were designed with Vietnamese natural materials.

The HCM City Fine Arts Museum yesterday celebrated its 30^th anniversary with an exhibition of two collections of paintings by Vietnamese and foreign artists.

Mỹ A, a rare Vietnamese satin, will be featured in clothes for women and men by young fashion designers at the catwalk event The Dreamers in HCM City next month.

The HCM City will open a new pedestrian-only book street at Nguyễn Đổng Chi Street in District 7 in October, offering a series of activities promoting reading culture for more than 300,000 residents in districts 7, 2 and 8.

A story starting by a surprise encounter between a marriage and a funeral on the road written by Võ Anh Vũ won top prize at the Talented Screenwriters contest, the organiser announced on Friday.

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Visitors to the northern mountainous region of Hà Giang will immediately notice the little yellow mud houses built by local Mông ethnicity people along the road.

After an initial visual survey, a Quảng Bình expert said that the grave recently unearthed by local farmers is not an ancient one, but actually dates to the era of the Nguyễn Dynasty (1802-1945). More testing, however, remains to be done.

Developing ways to attract more Chinese and Malaysian tourists to Việt Nam was the main topic of discussion at several seminars held in HCM City within the framework of the three-day International Travel Expo (ITE) HCM City 2017, which ends today (September 9).

Tourism will become a key economic sector of the northern province of Ninh Bình by 2015, local officials said at a tourism conference held yesterday in HCM City.

Việt Nam will present the classic film, Bao Giờ Cho Đến Tháng Mười (When October Comes) at ASEAN Film Festival 2017, which kicks off in Cambodia on September 8.

Blockbuster TV serial Người Phán Xử (The Arbitrator) was crowned yesterday at the VTV Awards 2017 held in the capital city.

An exhibition of works by Louise Bourgeois, a contemporary art icon known for her giant sculptures, is to open this week in Tel Aviv, a first in Israel.

Canadian actor Donald Sutherland is to receive an honorary Oscar to recognise a glittering career that has seen him become one of Hollywood's most recognisable faces.

Farmers in central Quảng Bình Province were clearing bushes when they unearthed something unexpected: a grave that is believed to be ancient.