Việt Nam News

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.

Rice is not only the staple of Vietnamese diets, but also the major ingredient in many signature dishes. Besides the better known ubiquitous stir fried rice, the chicken rice of Hội An town and the rice cooked with coconut typical of the south, cơm lam is a feature of traditional festivals of several ethnic groups. 

Hundreds of discounted tours have been sold at the HCM City Tourism Fair, which wrapped up on Sunday, with bookings for international tours accounting for more than 70 per cent of sales, according to tour operators.

VN seeks UNESCO recognition for ethnic ‘Then' singing

CNN has recently released a trailer featuring the beauty of Hà Nội, Việt Nam’s ancient capital.