Lifestyle

Pilgrims, tourists make trek to Huong Pagoda festival
30/01/2009 05:00
Pilgrims and tourists flock to Huong (Perfume) Pagoda every year to attend the nation’s most elaborate festival to welcome the Lunar New Year. Pilgrims flock to Huong Pagoda. This year the traffic on the Yen Stream leading to the main complex of pagodas will...
Thang Long Royal Citadel Spring Festival kicked off
29/01/2009 05:00
Lookatvietnam – The Thang Long Royal Citadel Spring Festival 2009 officially opened in Hanoi on Jan. 29, the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. The Thang Long Royal Citadel Spring Festival 2009 officially opened in Hanoi on Jan. 29. The opening ceremony...
Sacred music strikes right note in rituals
29/01/2009 05:00
Lookatvietnam – Music plays an essential role in a broad range of traditional ceremonies, particularly religious rituals in Vietnam, where the rich heritage of the nation’s culture is inexorably linked with faith to lend a lively air to this form of ritual music....
Hanoi’s architecture gets German critique
29/01/2009 05:00
Lookatvietnam – German architect Wolfgang Boehm is key professor at the Southeast Asian Architectural Summer School. He speaks about his impressions of the city’s urban environment. You have been working at the annual summer school, launched by the Vietnamese...
2009: Vietnamese music hopes for better year
28/01/2009 05:00
Lookatvietnam - 2008 was a year of many singing contests, including Morning Star Rendezvous, Vietnam Idol, HCMC TV Music Star, The Singing of Autumn, billion dong concerts and the release of numerous albums have attracted a great number of audiences nationwide....
City circus artistes to perform in Taiwan
28/01/2009 05:00
Fifty performers belonging to a HCMC circus have received invitations to perform in Taiwan. Lookatvietnam - Fifty performers belonging to a HCMC circus have received invitations to perform in Taiwan. Forty from the HCMC Circus Troupe left...
The dos and don’ts of Tet
28/01/2009 05:00
Many ethnic minority groups, such as Mong, Dao, Tay Nung and San Diu, do not sweep the house or empty out rubbish during the lunar New Year (Tet) festival. Lookatvietnam - Many ethnic minority groups, such as Mong, Dao, Tay Nung and San Diu, do not sweep...