On Thursday, June 22, the FVH (Friends of Vietnam Heritage) Film Night will present the black-and-white movie Bến Không Chồng (Wharf of Widows) by director Lưu Trọng Ninh, who also plays the film’s main character Nguyễn Vạn. Based on a well-known novel of the same title by author Dương Hướng, which was granted the Việt Nam Writers’ Association Award in 1991, the movie was a Berlin International Film Festival selection.
Could the very existence of croissants in France be in danger? Bakers warned Tuesday that a vertiginous rise in the price of butter was slashing their profit margins and threatening an entire industry.
New York on Tuesday renamed a Manhattan street corner after Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, Nobel peace laureate and humanitarian who died last year. The southwest corner of 84th Street and Central Park West on the Upper West Side was permanently renamed "Elie Wiesel Way" at a ceremony attended by city officials under the baking heat of an early summer heatwave.
Poor marketing, brand promotion and dull design were blamed as major obstructions for silk trade of Việt Nam expanding to worldwide.
A Lự woman in Tam Đường District, Lai Châu province listens to radio news. For ethnic minorities in poor remote areas, radio is the main medium used to learn of State and Party policies. — VNS Photo Việt Thanh
French singer and songwriter Joyce Jonathan held three live charity concerts in Việt Nam last week to raise funds for street children through the Poussières de Vie (Dust of Life) organisation. Laureate of the prestigious NRJ Music Awards 2011 in the category Francophone Breakthrough of the year, the 27-year-old singer and songwriter talks with Vương Bạch Liên before her concert in Hà Nội.
The first HCM City Piano Competition kicked off last night with the participation of about 200 contestants. The competition is hosted by HCM City Music Talent Training Conservatory, and it is open to all young professional and amateur pianists from six to 24 years until June 18.
Việt Nam’s A-listed songstress Thu Minh will perform this month in Hà Nội for the first time in a concert called "Fire Phoenix".
The central province officially debuted a new eco-tour site at the Triêm Tây village in Điện Bàn town during the on-going Quảng Nam Heritage Festival.
Video game giants Ubisoft and Nintendo have teamed up to put their respective stars, Raving Rabbids and Mario, together in a new role-playing adventure.
A tiny portrait which Pablo Picasso set into a ring to appease his lover Dora Maar after an argument will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s London auction house next week.
The Vinschool One Choir won two gold medals at the International Choir Competition 2017 held between 7th and 11th June in the ancient city of Hội An in the central province of Quảng Nam.
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A new TV programme on Vietnamese music airing on HCM City Television (HTV) has attracted many young viewers in the city and southern provinces.
The Việt Nam Post in co-operation with the central province has issued the first ever stamp on ‘Ngọc Linh’ ginseng (Panax vietnamensis, or Vietnamese ginseng) during the Ngọc Linh ginseng festival in Nam Trà My District.
A Việt Nam Exhibition pavillion combining tradition and modernity has received hundreds of visitors in recent days at Expo 2017 Astana in the capital of Kazakhstan.
Vũ Tuân Sán, a veteran researcher of Hà Nội and Han-Nôm studies, died after prolonged illness last Friday in Hà Nội. He was 103.
