A mud ball wrestling festival in Vân Village, Việt Yên District, Bắc Giang Province. Photo vietyen.bacgiang.gov.vn HÀ NỘI — The craft of making fish sauce and rice paper in the southern province of Phú Yên, and the art of decorating traditional clothes of the Black Lô Lô ethnic minority are among new national …
Read More »Enjoying happiness and safety in Việt Nam
Lê Hương Việt Nam was the first place Charlotte Lou visited in Asia back in 2016. After falling in love with the country, she decided to make it her home. That summer, Charlotte backpacked for a month from HCM City to Hà Nội. Anyone following her Instagram account can see beautiful …
Read More »HCM City student wins at logo contest
Korean ambassador Park Noh-wan awards the prize to winner Ngô Quang Trung in Hà Nội. — Photo courtesy of Korean Cultural Centre HÀ NỘI — HCM City-based Ngô Quang Trung, 22, won the top prize at a logo design contest to celebrate the 30th founding anniversary of Việt Nam and South Korea diplomatic relations …
Read More »Artist finds inspiration from coloured pencils
Lê Hương & Bảo Hoa Simple coloured pencils may be just tools for children to create beautiful images, but they can also inspire artists to create stunning works. Hà Nội-based artist Lê Xuân Hưởng has created various decorative items from coloured pencils and transparent epoxy. Hưởng remembers the first pencils his father bought him after …
Read More »Exhibition reproduces traditional Lunar New Year Festival
HÀ NỘI — An exhibition, which recreates the Vietnamese traditional Tết (Lunar New Year) is being at the display space of the National Archives Centre 1 in Hà Nội. More than 100 rare documents and images from the Nguyễn dynasty to the end of the 20th century are on display. …
Read More »HCM City Tết Festival 2022 opens
The 14-day long Tết Festival 2022 honouring Vietnamese food and culture. The event was held at HCM City Youth Cultural House in District 1. VnExpress News Photo Xuân Đăng HCM CITY — The third Tết Festival honouring Vietnamese food and culture opened for visitors at the HCM City Youth …
Read More »Best-selling author Nguyễn Nhật Ánh launches new book
HCM CITY — Vietnamese author Nguyễn Nhật Ánh has released a new book titled Ra Bờ Suối Ngắm Hoa Kèn Hồng. Ra Bờ Suối Ngắm Hoa Kèn Hồng (Going to the Stream to See Pink Lilies) is the fifth book by Ánh with funny animals as the main characters, after his previous novels …
Read More »Artisan launches new lacquer collection to welcome the year of tiger
A tiger figurine is included in artisan Phát’s collection that will be launched to welcome 2022 or the year of tiger. Photo courtesy of the artisan By Lương Thu Hương A collection of 2,022 tiger figurines handcrafted from jackfruit wood and laterite combined with lacquer is being completed to …
Read More »Animated films on Vietnamese history to be released online
HISTORY IN THE MAKING: The Việt Nam Cartoon Company produced 16 films on Vietnamese history and culture in 2021. Some have been released on YouTube, attracting hundreds of thousands of views. Photo courtesy of the producer HCM CITY — Two animated films on Vietnamese history produced by the Việt Nam Cartoon Company will be released …
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