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The Vietnam-Japan Friendship Golf Tournament 2008 will tee off at the Song Be course in Binh Duong province on May 27. The event offers diplomats, government officials, and entrepreneurs a chance to meet one another, Le Hung Quoc, chairman of the HCM City Union of Friendship Organisations, told a press briefing on May 21. It [...]
Water puppet shows remain popular for children and tourists but the art form is in dire need of a new generation of puppeteers, directors and playwrights After a quick breakfast, Ly Hoang Anh drives off to the Central Puppetry Theatre in Hanoi where preparations are underway for a new water puppet show. “We have been [...]
An international online contest on Hanoi’s historical works and cultural heritage was launched on May 31 towards the 1,000 th birthday of the capital city. This is part of a series of contests, held between 2000-2010, with different topics for each year, and targeting foreigners and overseas Vietnamese. Entries can be written in one of [...]
A number of new children’s books are in bookshops this summer, but most of them are translations of foreign works and only a few are written by Vietnamese authors. The Tre Publisher is publishing new translations of international bestsellers, including Mr Midnight by Singaporean author Jim Aitchison under the pseudonym of James Lee, Pendragon by [...]
Visitors to the on-going Hue Festival relived the crowning ceremony of National Hero Nguyen Hue when the ancient rite was re-enacted last night in the ancient imperial city of Hue. One of the most important events of the Hue Festival, the ceremony took place at the city’s Ban Mountain Relic Site, where the hero, known [...]
Fifteen years since Hue city won global recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the city’s internationally-renowned annual festival has been getting bigger and better. This year’s celebration, already in full swing, is no exception. Over 60 arts troupes from Viet Nam and abroad have flocked to the event, held under the theme “Cultural [...]
La Pagoda in HCM City’s Go Vap District features an evergreen bodhi tree that never needs watering. That’s because it was made of cement and steel by a young sculptor named Tru Cong Vu. The boundary between the real and unreal is unclear to the pagoda’s many worshippers. Few seem to express any doubts over [...]
Ancient Hue Citadel has been reconstructed and restored to its heyday of the Nguyen Dynasty, but in virtual reality. A newly produced film “Digital Reconstruction of Hue Imperial Citadel” uses advanced 3-D computer graphics to show the original architecture and design of some of Hue ’s most famous structures, such as Ngo Mon Gate, Thai [...]
Tan Hanoi company, the developer of Pottery Road project, said it is unnecessary to complete the whole 6km road before the 1,000th anniversary of Hanoi, but the construction depends on funding. An international exhibition and seminar on public arts was held on June 13-14 at the Hanoi-based Goethe Institute under the Ford Foundation’s sponsorship. The [...]
On June 17th, Thanh Hoa provincial People’s Committee held a seminar to make a profile of Con Moong cave to propose UNESCO recognize it as a world cultural heritage. Con Moong is situated in Thanh Yen commune, Thach Thanh district, Thanh Hoa province and in the buffer zone of Cuc Phuong National Park in Ninh [...]