• Making splash

    Making splash

    19/07/2009 05:00

    Huynh Anh Tuan, owner of the Golden Dragon Water Puppet Theater, poses with wooden puppets. A private water puppetry troupe will, for the first time, present the traditional art at an international festival in Japan....

  • Vietnam’s largest ceiling painting asking for help

    Vietnam’s largest ceiling painting asking for help

    19/07/2009 05:00

    The oldest and largest ceiling mural in Vietnam, which is in Dieu De Pagoda in the ancient capital city of Hue city , is in bad condition and needs to be urgently restored. This painting was recognised as the eldest and largest ceiling painting in...

  • Beauty queen pulls out of historic movie project

    Beauty queen pulls out of historic movie project

    19/07/2009 05:00

    Second runner-up of Miss Universe Vietnam 2009 Duong Truong Thien Ly will not play the role of Tran Thi Dung in the largest film project of Vietnam, “Royal Chancellor Tran Thu Do”. 2.66 million USD for historical movie From beauty queen to...

  • Competition seeking TV hosts goes to Hanoi

    Competition seeking TV hosts goes to Hanoi

    19/07/2009 05:00

    After six years of being organised in HCM City, HCM City Television Station’s “TV host” competition named En Vang (Gold Swallow) has gone to the north for the first time. Nhu Quynh has become a professional TV host after winning the Gold Swallow Award...

  • UNESCO experts back ca tru singing for world heritage status

    UNESCO experts back ca tru singing for world heritage status

    19/07/2009 05:00

    Two UNESCO experts have said that that the ca tru singing tradition meets five standards for being recognized as the world intangible cultural heritage of urgent protection, according to a senior official. A newspaper sponsored by the Ministry of...

  • Talk of the town

    Talk of the town

    19/07/2009 05:00

    MC Nguyen Khang interviews an audience member in the Cau Vong (Rainbow) contest held by Vietnam Television in June. An engineer wins a contest and finds his true calling. Barely weeks after he won...

  • Memories of the war on display in HCMC

    Memories of the war on display in HCMC

    19/07/2009 05:00

    “Memories of Vietnam”, 315 sketches and paintings that take viewers on an evocative journey through Vietnam’s passage from war to peace, opened at the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum last weekend....

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