HCM City’s Trần Hữu Trang Cải Lương Theatre, one of the region’s leading traditional art troupes, will open its exhibit hall featuring information and images about cải lương (reformed opera) to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the August Revolution (August 19, 1945) and National Day (September 2, 1945).
Noted for the sacred Bà Đen (Black Lady) Mountain and the headquarters of the Cao Đài religion, the southeastern province of Tây Ninh has transformed from its once-fierce battleground status to an alluring tourist destination awaiting pilgrims and lovers of culture and nature.
Having revived Pháp Lam art, a kind of enamel painting and carving on copper, in early 2000, local artisan Đỗ Hữu Triết refreshed the art on silver and gold for making fashionable jewelries, interior decoration and paintings.
Blanketing 110 hectares of one of the longest and most beautiful stretches of coastline in central Việt Nam, the Sa Huỳnh salt fields -- 60 kilometres south of Quảng Ngãi City in the province of the same name -- was as a source of salty food centuries ago.
Chinese chess has become a passion for many elderly people in Hà Nội.
Nguyễn Thanh Hùng from Hồng Ngự District in the Mekong Delta province of Đồng Tháp is famed locally as the “inventor” of a whole host of unique farming machinery.
Nguyễn Phước Quý Thành is breathing new life into discarded shirt buttons and plastic items by using them to make colourful works of art.
Painter Mai Đắc Linh has established a reputation for how he uses traditional materials in his works
The lower leagues in Viet Nam can give you the thrills of proper football.
Lê Thu Quỳnh enjoys the beauty of Cát Bà National Park, one of the best protected areas in the country in terms of biodiversity, with the tropical and sub-tropical ecologies common to Asia.
To break away from the conventional materials such as gold and silver, HCM City-based artist La Như Long is creating his own line of jewellery from seashells.
The Vietnamese art scene has shown encouraging signs of revival after being devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic as the country moves into a 'new normal'.
Vua Dép Lốp has introduced Việt Nam’s rubber sandals abroad. As their customers are mainly foreigners, the sandals have been estimated to travel to 60 countries worldwide and exported to five countries, including England, France, US, Japan and China.
ossier for submission to UNESCO, the UN cultural agency, seeking recognition of the traditional costume as a heritage of humankind. A range of scholars attended and shared their views.
Children in HCM City are encouraged to join training courses in performance skills launched by the HCM City Small Theatre, a leading private theatre, this summer.
Centuries-old craft in need of support as modern world closes in and popularity declines
Hoàng Trung Hiếu, the alumni of and PhD student at the University of Sciences under the Việt Nam National University - Hồ Chí Minh City has retained his endless passion to achieve success in the study of high-technology, in particular research into artificial intelligence (AI).
Originally an intellectual educated in the French educational system, instead of becoming a civil servant for the Sài Gòn administration, Nguyễn Hữu Thọ gave up all benefits he should have to join Việt Nam resistance movement.
Authorities are preparing documents for the Bà chúa xứ Festival in Châu Đốc to be recognised as an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO.
Nearly three months have now passed without any cases of community transmission of COVID-19 in Việt Nam, but the tourism sector has suffered terribly and the Government has encouraged people to take a staycation, and Sầm Sơn has been the most popular so far.
