Việt Nam News

Guitarist Trần Tuấn An had a solo recital in Hà Nội last weekend. He won top prizes at international competitions. Culture vulture interviewed An before he left this week for Chicago to continue his studies.

Việt Nam has continued to develop a positive role in UNESCO in 2016, and always endeavours to make substantive contributions to the organisation’s activities, said Lê Hoài Trung, president of the Việt Nam National Commission for UNESCO at a meeting held on Tuesday.

Eighteen significant objects recognised as National Treasures are on display for the first time at the Việt Nam National Museum of History.

Tourism development cooperation among eight Vietnamese northwestern provinces yielded substantial results in 2016, according to a tourism review conference held in the northern province of Phú Thọ on Monday.

Traditional festivals comprising violent activities and causing chaos are to be stopped or changed, authorities and cultural managers said at a conference yesterday in Hà Nội.

A circus performance involving leather straps by artists Văn Thái and Thu Hường from Việt Nam Circus Federation has just won the Silver Medal at the 33rd Golden Circus Festival held in Rome between December 25 and January 8.

Men and women are sashaying down catwalks together at London Fashion Week, in a shake-up of tradition backed by celebrated designers including Vivienne Westwood.

A smash-hit Paris show of one the world’s greatest private collections of modern art is to be extended after 600,000 people flocked to see it in just 10 weeks.

A new illustrated version of a popular 1968 children’s poetry book, entitled Góc Sân Và Khoảng Trời (The Yard Corner and Sky Interval), will be released in Hà Nội on January 16.

If you are going to Huế City, don’t miss the imperial citadel, the tombs, the Thiên Mụ pagoda and, of course, the clam rice, a mouthwatering delicacy that began as a humble breakfast dish for the poor centuries ago.

Local authorities of the Phú Quý Island District, in the central province of Bình Thuận, have spared no effort in promoting local tourism.

A ceremony to mark 67 years of the traditional day of Vietnamese students and Việt Nam’s Students’ Association was recently held at the Banking Academy.

Famed painter Văn Dương Thành has opened a workshop at her home for visitors, which is on every Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday between 10am and 1pm.

Dreamy musical La La Land pirouetted its way into an early lead at the Golden Globes on Sunday with four awards as Hollywood’s elite celebrated at the glitziest party of the showbiz year.

An inescapable feature of modern life, the instantly recognisable motifs of mobile phone applications inspired British designer Jonathan Anderson’s London Fashion Week show on Sunday, with his brash embroidered creations lighting up the catwalk.

It’s the New Year and guess what’s on (almost) everyone’s minds: Losing weight and dropping some of the kilograms they put on, especially during the holiday season.