Việt Nam News

Designer Nguyễn Công Trí’s latest collection, called Haute Couture No:10, will be shown during Tokyo Fashion Week 2017 at the Shibuya Hikarie Hall A on March 21.

The most interesting traditional music pieces, songs and dances of Romania will be performed soon in Hà Nội and HCM City.

Uma Thurman is to star in Lars von Trier’s new serial killer thriller The House That Jack Built, producers announced Tuesday as shooting got underway in Sweden.

Two museums dedicated to the life and work of fashion legend Yves Saint Laurent will open in Paris and Morocco later this year, his foundation said Tuesday.

To celebrate International Women’s Day, the Swedish Embassy in Việt Nam, the Việt Nam Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Vietnamese Women’s Museum have jointly organised a photo contest on gender equality in Vietnamese families.

Barbara Trebitsch, former head of Domus Academy in Milan, a leading school in design, fashion and architecture, is currently Italy’s ambassador of design. Culture Vulture caught up with her when she attended the first Italian Design Day to be held in Việt Nam, with exhibitions and workshops held in Hà Nội and HCM City.

Nearly 160 new book titles by international and Vietnamese authors will be released this month as part of the “Tháng 3 Sách Trẻ” (March Youth Book) programme.

Vietnamese-French Devon Nguyễn debuted her latest collection at Paris Fashion Week last week.

Dancers at a Bát Tràng Village festival in Hà Nội. – VNS Photo Việt Thanh

Vietnamese writer Nguyễn Du’s classic Tale of Kiều will be performed at the Việt Nam National Drama Theater until March 10 to celebrate International Women’s Day, which falls today.

A photo exhibition featuring more than 100 works of 35 women photographers is being held in HCM City on the occasion of International Women’s Day.

Võ Tấn Tân, operator of Hội An Kayak Tours service, has launched the River Clean Up tours on Kayak along the Thu Bồn River, Nipa Palm forest in Cẩm Thanh village and Hội An city.

A rare opera by Franz Liszt has been meticulously restored by a scholar, who described the work as unique in the history of music.

Bánh trôi is in the size of a grape and made of rice, with a palm sugar cube inside; bánh chay is the size of an egg, with mung beans inside, and is served with thick sweet sauce. While bánh chưng (square sticky rice cake) is a must for the Vietnamese Lunar New Year,  trôi and chay dumplings are eaten in almost every Vietnamese family on Cold Food Day, which falls on the third day of the third lunar month (March 30th this year). 

The world famous London Symphony Orchesstra performed a free concert by the city’s historic Hoàn Kiếm Lake in the heart of Hà Nội on Saturday.

The internationally-acclaimed band Bad Boys Blue cancelled their upcoming concert in Việt Nam after the group was involved in an accident in Russia, and singer John McInerney suffered severe injuries.