Việt Nam News

The HCM City Hát Bội Theatre has launched its new free programme offering hát bội or tuồng (classical drama) performances for primary school studentsas part of the theatre’s efforts to attract young audiences.  

Eight lively replicas have been installed in Hướng Phùng school premises to educate the students about history and culture.

Private museums in HCM City have changed their ways of doing business and are pulling more customers away from theatres and cinemas.

Many eateries in Hà Nội now feature realistic paintings of villages, mountains and dreamland of flowers, rivers and sky.  Đỗ Phương Linh sampled strangely decorated Bồng Lai Quán (Wonderland Restaurant) at 184 Triệu Việt Vương street.

Hát bả trạo (“firmly grasping the paddle” singing), which was composed by fishermen in Central Việt Nam’s provinces, is an original type of folk art and festival ritual. It is also one of the national intangible cultural heritages recognised by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in February 2016.

In the field of Việt Nam’s reliefs, Trần Nguyên Đán is a well-known name. His devotion and tireless creative abilities have earned him significant success and renown in domestic fine arts.

After initial trepidation, Thu Hằng sets aside the instant noodles she carried as insurance to enjoy chicken curry, living root bridges and other surprises in a remote Indian state that one has to visit at least once in a lifetime

Bùi Thị Hồng Ngọc became the first Vietnamese to step on Oymyakon, dubbed the Pole of Cold, or the coldest inhabited place on Earth, with the lowest recorded temperature of -71.2 degrees Celsius. She tells Việt Nam News about her unbelievable journey.

A master plan to exploit the tourism potential of the Đồng Văn Karst Plateau Geopark will highlight its lesser known facets, but concerns remain over its social and environmental impacts.

In Lắk Commune in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk, elephant doctor Đàng Đăng Long is fighting a desperate battle to not only keep overworked beasts alive, but to provide the right conditions for them to mate so that they do not die out. Giang Vương reports.

Jeju Island, located in the southernmost sea in Korea, is said to be abundant in rocks, wind and women.

When we conquered Seongsang Ilcholbong Peak, this is exactly what we witnessed.

Nguyễn Thị Hoài is an associate professor and head of the Pharmacy Faculty at Huế University of Medicine and Pharmacy in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế. One of her prominent studies is about the discovery of antioxidant and anti-cancer properties of 30 kinds of medicinal herbs used by the Pako and Vân Kiều ethnic minorities in central Việt Nam. With the study, Hoài received an award granted to outstanding Vietnamese female scientists by L’Oreal-UNESCO.

The dog is the most popular domestic animal of the Vietnamese. As the country celebrates the New Year, stories about dogs can be heard everywhere.

The Cơ Tu ethnic community has been struggling to preserve its culture and traditional customs that have mostly faded away with rapid urbanisation.

Trần Phương My is fast establishing a reputation as an emerging international designer with luxury designs that are elegant, modern and feminine. 

Tà Xùa, a high mountain range locating in the natural border between northern provinces of Sơn La and Yên Bái, has been known as "Paradise in the Clouds", which hosts forests of ancient Shan Tuyết tea trees, some several hundred years old. 

The đàn nhị, a bowed string instrument with two strings, is a multi-purpose fiddle in the vast treasury of Vietnamese traditional musical instruments. Noting that artists were getting stuck in the same old ways of playing the đàn nhị, Trần Văn Xâm, a lecturer on the instrument at the Việt Nam National Academy of Music, decided to make a change.

To protect farmers, save endless hours of dangerous work, and protect the environment, mechanical engineer Lê Phi Cường and his team have developed a pesticide spraying drone.