Việt Nam News

Southern province of Đồng Tháp has spared no efforts to preserve local handicrafts and exploited them for tourism.

World renowned DJ Hardwell is to stage a performance for the capital’s audience on May 20.  

Rare music from three stars who died last year — Prince, David Bowie and Leonard Cohen -- will come out next month for the 10th anniversary of Record Store Day, the celebration of vinyl’s rebirth.

British crime writer Colin Dexter, best known for his popular Inspector Morse character, died Tuesday at the age of 86, his publisher said in a statement.

Travel agents will offer discounts of 10-50 per cent on domestic and foreign tours at HCM City Tourism Fair 2017 to be held from March 23-26 at Lê Văn Tám Park in District 1.

The 2017 Cần Thơ Book Fair will take place at the city’s Lưu Hữu Phước Park from March 25 to 31.

From 7pm to 9pm tonight, Tranquil will host the 5th episode of its Xóa series – a  poetry reading series to shape fresh experiences of language--entitled Musicality of Poetry.

Vietnamese Prof Phan Huy Lê has been granted a medal by the Académie des Inscripition et des Belles Lettres (Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres) for his significant contribution to the preservation of Việt Nam’s historical and cultural heritage and for his devoted social science research.

The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will restage “Ballet with Tchaikovsky and Raven” on March 25 and 26.

After an international marketing guru’s advice that Việt Nam should sell itself as a food destination, there has been increased focus on the culinary delights produced in the country.

Three female guitarists from the US, South Korea and Japan will perform tomorrow at the Việt Nam Youth Theatre in Hà Nội.

A painting exhibition, the Meet of March, will feature 50 paintings by 10 local artists in celebration of the 42nd anniversary of the city’s Liberation Day (March 29th).

Three Vietnamese films will be screened at the 70th annual Cannes Film Festival, to be held from May 17 to 28.

The Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Union’s HCM City unit last Saturday (March 18) inaugurated the first phase of a memorial to the south-eastern resistance base in Bến Cát town, Bình Dương Province.

 Drake, the prolific hip-hop star who was last year's top-selling artist, has returned with a song collection in which he ventures further into dancehall rhythms and taps fellow big names.

Vietnamese pop idols Sơn Tùng M-TP and Tóc Tiên have been invited to participate in Seoul Fashion Week which begins on March 27.

More than 400 children and teenagers will catwalk on Nguyễn Huệ Pedestrian Street to open the 2^nd Vietnam Junior Fashion Week 2017 (VJFW 2017 ) in HCM City this week.   

Sesame Street has often experimented with new ways of teaching children about social issues as well as their ABCs since its launch nearly 50 years ago. Now it’s taking on a new challenge: autism.