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Book of folk songs tugs heartstrings
29/09/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – Le Giang says many people who talked to and sang for her as she traversed the country collecting folk songs would burst into tears Bursting into song: The book Con Khoc Ngon Lanh. The book, Con Khoc Ngon Lanh (Easy to Cry), is a...
HCM City mother of two wins Mrs. Vietnam title
28/09/2009 05:00
Hoang Thi Yen, 33, won the Mrs. Vietnam Pageant of 2009 held in Vung Tau on September 26 to become the country’s first married pageant icon. Yen, mother of two and director of the UBS Company in HCM City, beat out five other finalists. The pool of...
Colourful Vietnam-Japan Mid-autumn Festival
28/09/2009 05:00
Thousands of Hanoians participated in the Vietnamese-Japanese Colour Festival at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnonogy from September 25-27....
Theatre festival pits young artists against veteran talent
28/09/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – The talents of young and veteran artists will come to the fore and compete against each other at the 2009 National Professional Theatre Festival Visual journey: Young director Duc Thinh’s No Than (The Magic Cross-Bow) uses beautiful...
“Don’t Burn” to represent Vietnam at Oscar 2010
28/09/2009 05:00
Senior director Dang Nhat Minh’s “Dung Dot” or “Don’t Burn” has been selected as Vietnam’s representative for the Oscars in 2010. Don’t Burn recently won the Audience Choice Award at the Fukouka Film Festival in Japan. The...
Finding a balance
27/09/2009 05:00
Nguyen Thi Hoa and her male partner perform a Corde Lisse at the HCMC Circus in September 23rd Park. They will lose their venue soon but the daredevils of the Ho Chi Minh City Circus love their profession too much to quit...
15 minutes of Ronan Keating in Hanoi
27/09/2009 05:00
Former Boyzone Ronan Keating poses with Agent Orange victims at the Peace Village in Hanoi late last week Boyzone front man Ronan Keating drew throngs of followers wherever he went during his short visit to Hanoi last...