Việt Nam News

Late artist Nguyễn Văn Tỵ used his creativity to contribute to the growth of traditional lacquer painting, Trần Khánh Chương, chairman of Việt Nam Fine Arts Association said.

The world-famous London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) will visit Hà Nội and present an outdoor concert this Saturday, March 4.

For the Sán Dìu ethnic group that lives in the northern province of Vĩnh Phúc, singing is a daily ritual.

Artisans in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) are asking for financial support from local authorities to preserve ethnic Jarai epics, oral folk literature that is now known by the elderly only. 

Hundreds of Oriental medicine stores on the streets of Lương Nhữ Học, Triệu Quang Phục and Hải Thượng Lãn Ông in Chợ Lớn (Chinatown) in HCM City’s District 5 provide Oriental medicine and herbal materials to traditional medicine clinics and consumers in the southern region.

Visitors will have a chance to learn from lesbians’ stories through the photographs and videos on display in Exposure, a new exhibition at 42 Yết Kiêu Street.

Across the country, thousands of young people will be leaving their ordinary lives behind to put on the green soldier uniform. For the next twenty-four months, they will receive military training at various boot camps and serve in the country’s land, air and water forces.

Veteran director Lê Mộng Hoàng, who rose to fame in the 1960s and 1970s, passed away on February 23 at his home in HCM City after a long illness due to heart disease. He was 88.

An annual pilgrim festival dedicated to the Hung kings will be organized between April 1 and 6 and hosted by the northern province of Phú Thọ.

Die-hard fans of Haruki Murakami, the Japanese author perennially pegged as a contender for the Nobel literature prize, flocked to bookstores on Thursday night to scoop up his new novel.

North America’s largest film festival will scale back this year, the Toronto International Film Festival announced on Thursday.

The central island district of Lý Sơn plans to restore a whale skeleton and an exhibition centre for whale skeletons with an investment of VNĐ10 billion (US$442.477).

Ô Loan Lagoon has much more to offer tourists than its well-known delicious seafood and wonderful scenes at sunrise and sunset. It has another “specialty”: the generosity of its people.

Four leading male singers will perform music by two Vietnamese great composers Văn Cao and Phạm Duy at the HCM City’s Hòa Bình Theatre on February 25. 

Alessandro Michele outdid himself in eclecticism on Wednesday with a foxy joint men and women’s collection for Gucci -- the label’s first ever -- as Milan fashion week opened.

The kimono, in myriad iterations from its origins in ancient Japan to its embrace by today’s top fashion designers, took centre stage on Wednesday at Paris’s Guimet museum.

Rihanna may be best known as an R&B superstar, but on Wednesday she was named the 2017 Harvard University Humanitarian of the Year for her charity work.

A new cultural and music project to introduce Việt Nam to people at home and abroad has been launched by several TV stations and HCM City organisations.