Việt Nam News

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.

HCM City’s annual Street Book Festival will be held from January 25 to 31, the city People’s Committee has announced.

Dozens of veteran and young artists will perform at HCM City’s Opera House next week to raise funds for poor theatre artists for the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.

A musician in the northern province of Phú Thọ is running a permanent exhibition of his own music instrument collection at his home. His house has become a tourism destination for visitors to Thanh Thủy District.

The HCM City Department of Tourism on January 5 began issuing a code of conduct it had drawn up for tourists visiting the city to ensure they behave appropriately in public.

Soldiers from Navy Zone No 4, reporters and representative from agencies carry Tet ( Lunar New Year) gifts and goods to soldiers and people living on the Truong Sa Archipelago, Khanh Hoa Province. — VNA/VNS Photo Dương Giang

Secretary of the HCM City Party Committee Đinh La Thăng and other city leaders on Thursday (Jan 5) met with more than 300 delegates and artists who work in the theatre, film and arts field to discuss how the city can better support the arts. 

People carry early peach blossom at Hà Nội Railway Station. Vietnamese people will celebrate the Lunar New Year in the next few weeks. — VNS Photo Thái Hà

Producing mangrove charcoal is a traditional craft in the southernmost province of Cà Mau, and it can still be found today in Ngọc Hiển District.

The Sình Village is well known in the nation for its 500 year-old paper paintings, but it was the villagers’ long-standing sporting instincts that were on display on Monday.

An exhibition featuring contemporary paintings and photos of Vietnamese painters and photographers opened on Thursday at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNC) in New Delhi, India.

Vietnamese and Chinese tourists can now explore new routes to four destinations across both countries. The routes were inaugurated on Thursday in the northern province of Quảng Ninh’s Móng Cái City.

The Việt Nam Musicians’ Association has just announced the best works of 2016.

An exhibition of Hà Nội artist Đinh Thanh Vân’s paintings featuring flowers has opened in HCM City.

All over France this month millions of children will excitedly bite into a flaky pastry cake hoping to come upon a tiny toy or trinket.

Letters handwritten by the late Princess Diana, including one describing how her son Prince Harry was "constantly in trouble", sold for 15,100 pounds (US$18,600) at a London auction on Thursday.

Phú Quốc Island hopes to attract more than 1.8 million visitors this year, an increase of 25.5 per cent over last year, according to local authorities.

Madrid-based photographer Trần Việt Hà has completed a photo collection on Japanese kimonos made with Vietnamese fabrics, which she shot in HCM City last year.