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LIFESTYLE IN BRIEF 30/7
29/07/2009 05:00
Project to preserve gong culture in Lam Dong; Thanh Hoa holds Eating-Drinking festival; Vietnam attends book fair in Hong Kong; Sa Pa stones exhibition opens; Vietnam builds statue in honour of Heroic Mothers; New publisher made debut Project to preserve gong...
French-Vietnamese dramas impress French audiences
28/07/2009 05:00
Over 20 French show organisers want to invite two Vietnamese-French dramas entitled “Sand Circle” and “Lady Antigone” to France in 2010-2011. An actor of the Vietnam Tuong Theatre delivers pamphlets to market the dramas in France. The 63 rd...
Vietnam readies itself as host of Mrs World Pageant
28/07/2009 05:00
Mrs. World 2008 Nataliia Shmarenkova Kamaliya will perform her singing talent in the final of Mrs. World 2009 pageant The channel Vietnam TV recently met with representatives of Mrs. World Inc and Star World TV to prepare for the Mrs World 2009 pageant on...
Vietnamese wins international piano contest in Australia
28/07/2009 05:00
Young Vietnamese pianist Luu Hong Quang triumphed over 30 other competitors from Korea, Australia, China, and Russia to win the International Chopin Piano Competition in Sydney last week. Young Vietnamese pianist Luu Hong Quang triumphed over 30 other...
Reminder of the past
28/07/2009 05:00
Robert Vaeza (R) talks with a local at his old residence in the northern province of Yen Bai. A French filmmaker’s new documentary explores the scars of colonialism through the story of a Vietnamese-French boy ripped...
Ho Ngoc Ha to join Asian Song Festival
28/07/2009 05:00
Singer and former supermodel Ho Ngoc Ha will be the Vietnamese entrant at the Asian Song Festival 2009 in Seoul, South Korea on September 19. The Vietnamese representative last year was Lam Truong. Singer Ho Ngoc Ha. The first Asian Song Festival in...
New trend for body art
28/07/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – Body painting, a liberalization of social mores regarding nudity in Western society, has arrived in Vietnam as a brand-new genre of body art. Unlike tattoo and other forms of body art, body painting is temporary, painted onto the skin, A...