100-year-old church lures visitors with its Byzantine beauty

The 100-year-old Hạnh Thông Tây Church in HCM City’s Gò Vấp District attracts many visitors at the weekend with its Byzantine style beauty.

Part of Hà Nội ceramic mural to be demolished

A 600m section of Hà Nội’s ceramic mosaic mural, which holds the Guinness World Record, will be demolished as part of a project to extend Âu Cơ Street from Thắng Lợi Hotel to Nhật Tân Bridge.

Researchers find ancient rooms under Jerusalem's Western Wall

Israeli researchers on Tuesday unveiled mysterious underground rooms with an unknown function, carved out of the bedrock near where the Second Jewish Temple is believed to have stood two millennia ago.

Sharon Stone to Host 20th Anniversary Laureus World Sports Awards Sharon Stone to Host 20th Anniversary Laureus World Sports Awards

Hong Kong Innovation Foundation presents Think Like Leonardo da Vinci 500th Anniversary Exhibition Hong Kong Innovation Foundation presents Think Like Leonardo da Vinci 500th Anniversary Exhibition

Multimedia concert connects sounds to images

Musician Jean-David Caillouet performed with French and Vietnamese artists to close the European Music Festival on November 30 in Hà Nội.

NASA satellite finds crashed Indian Moon lander A NASA satellite orbiting the Moon has found India's Vikram lander which crashed on the lunar surface in September, the US space agency said on Monday.

Pompeii's grand baths unveiled, with hidden tragedy

Magnificent thermal baths designed to be the jewel of Pompeii but destroyed by a volcanic eruption before they could be completed opened to visitors for the first time on Monday after a painstaking excavation.

More funds set aside for poverty fight

Chinese government has earmarked 13.5 billion yuan ($1.89 billion) this year for poverty alleviation in regions plagued by deep-rooted issues, the most difficult part of the country's fight against poverty, a senior official said on Friday (September 27).

Outrage over plan to demolish historic street art2

Two wall paintings made in the early 1980s at the Bạch Mai-Minh Khai crossroads in Hà Nội's Hai Bà Trưng District will soon be knocked down for a new road project.