The live entertainment show “The Quintessence of Tonkin” recently won the Gold Stevie Award for Innovation in Media, Visual Communications & Entertainment, beating projects from all over Asia.

A visit to the Southern One Pillar Pagoda

American poet loves VN folk songs

John Balaban’s warm smile, friendly manner, sincerity and especially his profound knowledge of Vietnamese folk songs and literature has made him a close friend to many Vietnamese scholars.

Current and former HCM City leaders and more than 2,000 Buddhist believers, monks and nuns on Sunday participated in a commemoration service for Bodhisattva Thích Quảng Đức, who set himself on fire 55 years ago to protest the repression of Buddhists by the US-backed Sài Gòn administration.  

A ceremony marking the 45^th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Việt Nam and Japan was held in Tokyo yesterday.

Thích Nữ Quảng Phát is a woman who has given her life completely  to serve her religion. As a nun, she has started a library at a pagoda where children comes and read books.

Visitors to Đọi Sơn Commune in northern Hà Nam province this weekend will have the chance to enjoy the Long Đọi Sơn Pagoda Festival that recently commenced in the area.

Sixty-year-old nun Phạm Thị Kim Sáng has raised eight orphans and poor children in the past 15 years despite her own difficult life.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has just sent an official letter to the local authorities of Bắc Giang Province, asking them to halt the ongoing construction of a new gatehouse at a local pagoda, due its being a National Special Relic Site.

Giác Lâm Pagoda on Lạc Long Quân Street in Tân Binh District is the oldest pagoda in HCM City.