The real name of the well–known actor Viet Hung was Nguyen Huu Hung. He was born in 1923 in Nha Trang, a coastal city in central Vietnam. Because of hardship, he, along with his mother and his elder sister, moved to Da Lat, a highland city. They later settled in Saigon....

German singers Almut Seebeck and Felicitas Weyer named Trio A Due visited Vietnam in 2003. They experienced to tour Ha Long Bay, Nha Trang and the Mekong Delta and they hoped to tour back this country one day, however until the end of 2014, they had opportunity to be backing Vietnam in accordance......

2014 was an unforgettable year for Don Ca Tai Tu Nam Bo (southern amateur traditional music) as it was officially recognized as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity at the 8th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage being held in Baku,......

The 13th Vietnam Poetry Day opened in Hanoi, Quang Ninh and Bac Ninh northern provinces from March 2-7....

Not long after people began to turn up at a festival in Hanoi last week to commemorate Saint Giong, a symbol of bravery in Vietnamese history, full-blown mayhem broke out....

Magazine covers featuring lively young women in their traditional ao dai dresses were everywhere in Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, during the 1950s....

Leonard Nimoy, the actor behind one of pop culture’s most famous and distinctive fictional characters, the half-human, half-alien Mr. Spock in the “Star Trek” television series and films, has died. He was 83....

After learning that the Hoa Binh Theater is going to have a liveshow for NSUT Ut Bach Lan , I decided to pay her a visit. Her small house on Tran Hung Dao Street looks the same – still the lonely hammock where she usually sits to study her lines and the Buddha altar with incense burning. Ms. Ut is......

Down the Mekong delta, one can see the rivers wind through the peaceful villages surrounded by bamboo. Year after year, these forever-young rivers carry the alluvium to nourish the paddy fields that produce fat rice crops. The people here for many generations have put in long and hard work to......

The following three singers, each of whom is Vietnamese traditional music performer, one after another, brightened up and beautified the already popular theatrical arts of Cai Luong (Southern traditional folk plays). Three different characters, three singing voices, three completely different......