A 70 year old man who is the oldest candidate for the high school graduation examination in the academic year 2014-2015 passed the examination....

Actor Omar Sharif, best known for his portrayal of Doctor Zhivago in the hit 1966 film and for his work in "Lawrence of Arabia", died of a heart attack on Friday, his agent said. He was 83....

A trial in the US on Tuesday sentenced a Vietnamese to 13 years in jail for hacking into US firms’ computers to steal personal information of nearly 200 million US citizens for sale....

When you think of Dustin Nguyen, two things come to mind: 21 Jump Street and an epic love story. It's rare to find any article written about Nguyen that doesn't include one or the other. While it has been decades since his career debut as one of the most visible Vietnamese actors in the industry,......

The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race bills itself as “the world's longest ocean race at 40,000 nautical miles” and takes up to 325 days to complete. In the event, 650 participants compete on 12 identical, 70-foot ocean-racing yachts that will set sail from the UK, crossing through several oceans......

Professor Tran Van Khe, the grand old master of Vietnamese traditional music passed away on June 24 in Gia Dinh Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City at the ripe old age of 94....

In the ten years from 1958 to 1967, the Thanh Tam Award, established by journalist Tran Tan Quoc, awarded the gold medals to 24 young actors. And in 2 years from 1965 to 1967, it also awarded 6 gold medals to the Artists Excellence Award....

The Vietnam National Cai luong Theatre will give a free cai luong play dedicating King Mai Hac De with a total investment capital of approximately VND3 billion in March...

At the age of twenty Duong looked fairly handsome, with a fresh complexion and gentle manners....

A concert featuring Vietnamese and American artists will be held on June 21 to mark the 20th year of the normalisation of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and the United States, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism....

Alexander M. Cannon, a young American music professor, has been researching about don ca tai tu (a traditional southern Vietnamese music genre) in HCM City....

The very first historical and cultural memorial erected to late musician Cao Van Lau has been opened for public view in the Mekong province of Bac Lieu on September 30. Father of modern cai luong finds...

The evolution of western pop music, spanning from 1960 to 2010, has been analysed by scientists....

Restoring Cua Dinh folk singing Cua Dinh folk singing is a genre of ceremonial singing which is the original form of Ca Tru folk singing....

A dance performance based on the epic Vietnamese love story between My Chau and Trong Thuy will debut on June 2 at the municipal Opera House in Ho Chi Minh City, featuring dancers from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK)....

The national professional song and dance competition 2015 (first phase) opened in Thai Nguyen city on May 21, attracting the participation of more than 1,000 artists from 17 art troupes from northern provinces (Quang Binh northward)....

When Mark Zuckerberg created the “like button” for his social network in 2009, he could never have imagined that Facebook’s most distinctive feature would someday be expected to bring the dead back to life....

Blues legend B.B. King, who took his music from rural juke joints to the mainstream and inspired a generation of guitarists from Eric Clapton to Stevie Ray Vaughan, has died in Las Vegas. He was 89....

About twenty years ago, along Ly Nam De Street in Ha Noi, Mrs Mao the widow carried two big bamboo baskets on her shoulder pole to pick up frangipani flowers strewn abundantly on the courtyards of its public buildings during the night. After picking up the flowers, she swept their wide expanses......

In the cai luong arts in the South, there are many fine names associated with the talented artists such as: King of cai luong singing Ut Tra On, King of funny cai luong singing Van Huong, King of xang xe tune Minh Chi, Emperor of plastic disk Tan Tai, Queen of sadness Ut Bach Lan, Queen of stage......