Many people love learning to play the piano, but following the classical technique it can take up to five years to become an accomplished player. Many give up after only three months because they find it too difficult and discouraging.
A performance of Chuyện Tình Khâu Vai (Khâu Vai Love Story) captured audiences hearts for three nights at the Trần Hữu Trang Cải Lương Theatre early this month, and due to popular demand will be returning to the stage at the end of July.
The art had been on the edge of extinction with youngsters preferring to wear modern, designer clothes, even on special days such as weddings or the Tết holiday
I arrived in Hà Nội for the first time on 2nd December 1978 to replace Chris Ray as an English-language specialist at the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) working on the daily English news bulletin.
The rise of modern media, internet and smart devices is killing traditional forms of reading books and newspapers. However, Nguyễn Bá Nha bucked the technological trend to create a library for his community.
Updates to the Hà Nội Museum will turn it into a top attraction and offer visitors more information on the capital city.
A Việt Nam News reporter attends two ceremonies commemorating naval soldiers who fell while defending Việt Nam’s maritime sovereignty and continental shelf.
The flute is a common instrument among many Vietnamese ethnic groups, but few are as unique as the cúc kẹ, or nose flute, of the Xa Phó ethnic minority.
The roads children are forced to take to school in the poor mountainous district of Ngọc Định in the southern province of Đồng Nai used to be a hazard. But now all that has changed thanks to local man Nguyễn Ngọc Sơn.
Thành Quang Minh is working as a construction engineer in HCM City but he does not give up passion for bolero music. For the past one year, he has traveled across the country to sing for the poor and raise funds to help them.
Children all over Việt Nam are out of school and excited about the summer holiday. How are they going to spend their free time? Phương Mai, San Hà and Ngọc Diệp talk to kids and their parents.
Farmers have been applying innovative methods on their land.
Mỳ Quảng (Quảng Nam-style flat rice noodle) restaurants can be easily found throughout central Quảng Nam Province. But centuries-old Phú Chiêm Village on the banks of the Thu Bồn River is known as the original home of the traditional spicy meal. Villagers still preserve the trade and hundreds of local vendors serve the food in neighbouring provinces and cities.
Seven-hundred years after it was constructed, a sculpture continues to surprise visitors to Bảo Hà Temple in Bảo Hà Village, Đồng Minh Commune, Vĩnh Bảo District, the northern city of Hải Phòng.
Suzhou is considered one of the most important cities in the Yangtze River Delta in Jiangsu Province, eastern China. Throughout this modern city, visitors can find traces of its ancient culture.
Having previously settled in Canada, overseas Vietnamese Trần Bá Cương John returned to Việt Nam to help build the first automobile manufacturing project in Quảng Nam Province in 2003. More recently, nano-biological research lured him back to develop hi-tech solutions for the Vietnamese farming community.
Thousands of people donned raincoats and carried umbrellas on May 8, braving the driving rain to enjoy the art performance held to commemorate the 990th anniversary of Thanh Hóa Province.
Music researcher Nguyễn Quang Long speaks with reporter Bùi Quỳnh Hoa about his dream to make xẩm (blind busker’s singing) and other traditional Vietnamese music more accessible for young people.
Buddhism first came to Việt Nam more than 2,000 years ago. It has been widely developed and practised by millions of local people over the years. There are more than 14,000 pagodas, which account for more than 30 per cent of the total number of relics in Việt Nam.
Trần Nhân Tông, the King and the Buddha of the Vietnamese
