“… 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”......

Duc Phuc, from Hanoi won ‘The Voice of Vietnam’ singing competition 2015, which ended in Ho Chi Minh City on September 20....

The dramatic life and death of Thanh Nga, a hugely popular cai luong (reformed theatre) artist, has been immortalised in a new picture book that carries almost 100 monochrome photographs of the legend....

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....

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....

Vietnamese food is distinct and unforgettable, according to UK magazine Rough Guides....

Ten German fairytale movies by the Brothers Grimm will be screened every weekend on the Vietnamese public television channel Voice of Vietnam (VOV TV) from May 31 to August 8...

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)....

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......

"Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass," a highly anticipated movie, will be brought to the Cannes Film Festival later this month, with the hope to find an international distributor....

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....

My Life wouldn't have been a good life if it wasn't for the Vong Co melody" Minh Canh Said with all sincerity....

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....