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ietnamese banh mi (baguette) has been ranked first in the list of the top 100 sandwiches in the world by international food website Taste Atlas.
Thanh Duoc, hailed as the king of the Vietnamese folk music genre cai luong (reformed theater), has passed away in the U.S. aged 89....
Vũ Minh Sơn (August 29, 1981 – September 14, 2013) was a Vietnamese singer. He was also the son of singers Minh Cảnh and Kiều My.[ By the age of six he started performing and singing traditional Vietnamese Cải lương music and Vietnamese pop songs under the stage name Cảnh Sơn....
It's 2009 and I'm running a workshop for a large group of unemployed jobseekers in Sydney, Australia....
The cold night of the deserted pagoda, Blood stains the temple yard, Autumn on Bach Ma Son were the famous Cai Luong plays in the past with Minh Canh participating; and he left such beautiful impressions in the roles of Cao Nguyen Binh, the young uncle Tran Tu Tam, and the Bach Sword Vuong Ho Vu.......
At the age of 86, “King of Cai Luong” Minh Canh decided to return to Vietnam after 20 years away from the limelight to perform a show of gratitude to the audience in his hometown....
A song lang is a musical instrument, a little percussion used in Vietnamese traditional music to keep the tempo for the musicians and the performers and – as the protagonist’s father believed – to “guide the artists down the moral path”....
Artists exist along with the plays. It is certain that they live on forever with their creativity in every film, in each role and song … But one day, that person has gone. That figure has stopped making a shadow. Though thousands of works leave his good name, the loss and disappointment was so......
A pretrial hearing into the alleged child molestation of Vietnamese comedian Minh Beo was postponed for two weeks from Friday, as the defendant changed his lawyer in the last minute....
In his U.S. jail cell, Minh Beo can feel reassured that his problems with the law has not made artists in his namesake theater back home turn their back on him....
An exhibition featuring woodblocks and official administrative papers of the Nguyen Kings has opened in Hanoi. The exhibition is part of activities to honor Vietnam’s documentary heritage and the Nguyen dynasty’s contributions to the historical records....
“… The Ca Mau mat had been dyed with a very vibrant color. It took me a lot of labors, through rain and shine, to finish. I am not going to sell it to anyone. If I cannot find you to offer it as a gift, I will use it to rest my head on every night...” Excerpt from the song “Tình anh bán chiếu”......
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....
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......
At the age of twenty Duong looked fairly handsome, with a fresh complexion and gentle manners....
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)....
Hue where the secrets of the old imperial palace are kept and where Mr Tran Kich, one of the two last instrumentalists of Nguyen dynasty, is maintaining the Nha Nhac quintessences bequeathed by ancestors....
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....
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......
The 91 year – old professor, the last person in his generation of original ”don ca tai tu” (a kind of southern traditional music player) just got the letter from the Embassy of France in VietNam informing he has been appointed Officier des Arts et Lettres by the Minister of Culture and......
My Life wouldn't have been a good life if it wasn't for the Vong Co melody" Minh Canh Said with all sincerity....