• Youth Theatre refreshes itself with comedies in English

    Youth Theatre refreshes itself with comedies in English

    04/06/2009 05:00

    The Youth Theatre is about to perform its first comedy in English. The theatre’s manager Nguyen Si Tien talks about the issue. Si Tien (white) watches actors practicing with an Apollo teacher and his co-worker. Why did the theatre decide to...

  • A thousand designs for a 1,000th birthday

    04/06/2009 05:00

    Fashion designer David Minh Duc will present 1,000 ao dai designs in Hanoi in October next year for the city’s 1,000th anniversary. The traditional Vietnamese outfits, all of them hand-sewn and hand-embroidered, will be made of classic materials like...

  • Smurfs in the city

    Smurfs in the city

    04/06/2009 05:00

    Belgium’s most famous comic characters are part of an exhibition at the Institute of Culture Exchange with France (IDECAF) on now in Ho Chi Minh City. “Tintin, Gaston, The Smurfs: The...

  • Ngoc Quyen to miss out on Miss Vietnam Global 2009

    Ngoc Quyen to miss out on Miss Vietnam Global 2009

    04/06/2009 05:00

    The Performance Art Agency has given permission to Huong Giang and My Linh to participate in the Miss Vietnam Global 2009 pageant in the US. Model Ngoc Quyen was not licenced because she hasn’t won any prize in national beauty contests. Model Ngoc Quyen....

  • Senior photographer Vo An Ninh passes away

    Senior photographer Vo An Ninh passes away

    04/06/2009 05:00

    Vietnam’s most senior photographer Vo An Ninh passed away at his home in HCM City on June 4 at the age of 103. Vo An Ninh and his photos of the famine in 1945. Vo An Ninh was born on June 18, 1907 in Hanoi. His first photo was published in 1932....

  • Classical music concert details changed

    03/06/2009 05:00

    The promoters of a concert of Haydn and Mozart in Ho Chi Minh City have changed the location, program and even the orchestra. The “Haydn & Mozart: Great Composers of Vienna” concert was to have taken place at the Conservatory of Music June 5-7...

  • Two Misses World do charity in Can Tho

    Two Misses World do charity in Can Tho

    03/06/2009 05:00

    Miss World 2004 from Peru could not come to Vietnam so Miss World 2006 Tatana Kucharova from the Czech Republic has become the travelling companion of Miss World 2008 Ksenia Sukhinova in the “Charity Footprints” programme in Vietnam. Miss World 2008...

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