Lifestyle

City doles out TV awards
19/04/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – Thanh Thuy may have been the happiest artist at the HCM City Television (HTV) Awards ceremony last Saturday, as she took home two awards for Favourite TV Serial Actress and Favourite Dramatist. Say cheese: Singer Dan Truong (left), who...
VN keens on Memory of the World program
18/04/2009 05:00
Pham Sanh Chau, general secretary of the Vietnam National UNESCO Committee, discusses Vietnam’s ideas for documentary heritage for possible inclusion in a Memory of the World programme. Pham Sanh Chau, general secretary of the Vietnam National UNESCO...
Vietnam celebrates 200th birthday of Gogol
18/04/2009 05:00
Monument to NV Gogol in Rome, where he spent many years after leaving Russia. VietNamNet Bridge - As the father of modern Russian realism hits his second century, literature lovers join together to celebrate the year of Gogol. An aged soprano, a...
Vietnamese designer competes in int’l fashion award final
18/04/2009 05:00
Fashion designer Ho Tran Da Thao has arrived in the UK to compete in the final of the International Young Fashion Entrepreneur Award 2009. One of Thao’s designs that will be showcased in the final of the International Young Fashion Entrepreneur Award 2009....
Man’s body magnetizes objects
18/04/2009 05:00
This Lam Dong Province farmer has a shocking but magnetic personality. This Lam Dong Province farmer has a shocking but magnetic personality. Huynh Van Khai, 44, of Bang Tien 2 Village in Lam Ha District looks ordinary at 1.6 meters tall...
"Avoiding the Tiger" days of the Red Dao people
18/04/2009 05:00
On the first days of the New Year, the Red Dao people in Lai Chau Province practice the custom of ” Avoiding the Tiger” with a hope of having a happy life and bumper crop in the New Year. Red Dao girls in their traditional costume/ Smoking-shelf...
Old timers
17/04/2009 05:00
Two women from different generations who shared a passion for Vietnamese folk music joined forces to open the Ca Tru Thang Long Theatre. Duc Hanh reports. Ca tru is an ancient form of chamber music – normally featuring a female vocalist,...