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The ancient pottery village of Phuoc Tich in Phong Hoa commune, Thua Thien-Hue Province will be renovated for Hue Festival 2008, which will take place from June 3 to June 11. More than VND300 million (US$19,000) was spent on the construction of a kiln, a workshop and a shop where pottery can be display and [...]
If there’s one place in Ha Noi guaranteed not to be crowded in the middle of university term time, it’s the library. This reflects a general trend in Viet Nam: young people are only choosing to read when and what they have to, so classical literature is being left on the shelf. Most of the [...]
More than 50 musicians and dancers from Central Highlands Dak Lak province performed with Cambodian artists at a concert in Phnom Penh on May 20. Part of a cultural exchange program between Dak Lak and bordering northeastern provinces from Cambodia , the concert featured folk songs and dances and the use of traditional musical instruments [...]
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 [...]