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....

More and more Vietnamese people choose to study in France thanks to internationalized education and open job opportunities. What do you need to know about enrollment and scholarship application timelines, according to experts?...

Artist Kieu Phuong Loan said she was surprised to see the Cai Luong play that was filmed at HTV in 1988, when she was just 34 years old....

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.......

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”....

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....

Evan Le (officially Evan Duy Quoc Le) was born on May 31, 2011 in Torrance, California....

The representative of Vietnam at the Miss Universe 2015 pageant has recently opened up to Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper about her feeling and other contestants’ reaction when host Steve Harvey announced the wrong winner....

What does music mean to you? Why do you ADMIRE/LIKe Bac MINH CANH? Why do you appreciate renovated opera (cai luong)? Let's share.......

The traditional music was always a poor relation compared to auters occidentalized musics. Before April 1975, with the National Academy of the music with Saigon, the classes of traditional instruments and arts traditional did not attract large world. The professors of traditional music had the......

“… 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”......

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....

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....

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

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....

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......

Music professor Tran Quang Hai has returned to Viet Nam to attend the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) and to hand over his entire collection of research on traditional Vietnamese music to the Viet Nam Institute for Musicology. He talks with Do Minh....

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......

Ca tru singer Pham Thi Hue just finished a three-month trip to introduce Ca tru to students in the city of Cleveland (Ohio, USA). During her free time, she joined a world-music band. She is now in Taiwan to teach traditional music of Vietnam....

Nguyen Thi Tru in HCM City ( Saigon) has been verified as the oldest woman in the world, the World Records Association announced earlier this week....