Việt Nam News

Residents in Kà Bầy Village, in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum, are supplied with clean water. Nearly 400 local residents lacked clean water over the last month. To improve the situation, local authorities supply two tanks every day, each containing 5,000 litres of water. Local authorities also encourage residents to dig wells and ensure environmental hygiene to prevent diseases causing by using dirty water. — VNA/VNS Photo Cao Nguyên

Vietnam Television Film Centre (VFC) held a press conference yesterday to introduce the centre’s latest TV series Silence of the Abyss.

What started out as a gesture of good will has become Richard Hughes’ passion and destiny as he knocks on doors and crosses oceans in search of justice for Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange.

A fee will be imposed on songs listed on karaoke machines across the country by July 2017, according to an announcement made by the Recording Industry Association of Vietnam (RIAV).

The Swedish Academy has warned that Nobel literature laureate Bob Dylan has until June 10 to deliver the traditional Nobel lecture, in order to receive the eight million kronor (US$910,000) that comes with the prize.

Legendary sci-fi director Luc Besson revealed Tuesday he has been thinking about making his latest film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets since he was 10.

Dancer Hà Tứ Thiên graduated from Việt Nam Dance College and is a second-year student at Hà Nội Academy of Theatre & Cinema’s Choreograph Department. He won Gold Medal with a solo solo Tễu performance at last year’s Quảng Bình dance festival, which included dancers from Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand.

Visitors to HCM City will have a chance to pose for photos at the Wax Museum of Vietnamese Artists, known informally as Madame Tussauds Việt Nam, which is scheduled to open early next month.

The fourth HCM City Biennale Art Exhibition for Young Artists will be held at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum next month.

The annual Vietnam International Travel Mart themed Hà Nội will be organised at the Friendship Culture Palace between April 6 and 9 gathering more than 650 travel enterprises from 43 localities in Việt Nam and 24 other countries and territories.

The second National Tài Tử Music Festival will take place in Bình Dương New City in Bình Dương Province from April 8-12.

Cần Thơ City’s 2nd Book Festival, which has opened at Lưu Hữu Phước Park in Ninh Kiều District, features a large collection of children’s books.

Vietnamese bestselling female writer Phan Việt has released the third volume in her successful nonfiction series titled Bất Hạnh Là Một Tài Sản (Unhappiness is a Fortune).

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Foodies will have chance to satisfy their taste with over 1,000 dishes at the Food Fest 2017, an international gastronomy and cultural event scheduled to take place in Hà Nội from April 6 to 8.

German soprano Katharina Kutsch and Finnish pianist Pauliina Tukiainen will perform in the concert “Underneath the Starry Sky” at the HCM City Opera House tomorrow (March 29).

Director Barry Jenkins, whose movie Moonlight won this year’s best picture Oscar, is writing and directing a drama for Amazon based on a prize-winning novel about escaping from slavery.

The Saudi Film Festival opened Monday with 58 homegrown cinematic works to be screened in the ultra-conservative kingdom that continues to ban public cinemas.