Lifestyle

HCM City to have Disneyland show
19/01/2009 05:00
Disneyland-styled shows will be introduced for the first time in HCM City this lunar New Year (Tet). The show is named “The Land of Fairytales,” designed by the Dam Sen Cultural Park and the Smile Puppetry Theatre. A scene from “The Land of Fairytales” show....
Artists honored with Mai Vang Awards
19/01/2009 05:00
Designer Vo Viet Chung won the Most Popular Designer for the fourth consecutive year at the fourteenth Mai Vang (Yellow Apricot) ceremony held at Hoa Binh Theater in HCM City January 18. Actor and MC Quyen Linh (middle) wins two Mai Vang prizes....
Female artists and Hanoi Spring Colour
19/01/2009 05:00
Famous artists of various fields have been invited to participate in a special Hanoi Television (HTV) programme which will be broadcast on the last day of the lunar December 2008. Miss Vietnam 1998 and People’s Artist Nhu Quynh. The show will see the...
Unique, giant coconut shell-made products
19/01/2009 05:00
Three craftsmen from the southern province of Ben Tre, or the kingdom of coconuts, used 25,000 coconut-shell buttons to make a huge tea pot, which was recognised as a national record at the first ever Coconut Festival in Ben Tre. The record tea pot....
Library for 1,000 years of Thang Long culture
19/01/2009 05:00
Lookatvietnam - A project to build a library to store and preserve one thousand years of Thang Long culture has been built by Ha Noi Publishing House, said its director, Nguyen Khac Oanh. The north gate of the Thang Long citadel in Phan Dinh Phung Street which...
Small gift for Hanoi
19/01/2009 05:00
Architect Mai The Nguyen’s wish to publish a handbook to introduce Hanoi architecture to foreign visitors has become true. He has brought handbooks, which were printed in Norway, to Vietnam. Architect Mai The Nguyen and his book. The handbook’s...
City hosts Tet celebration for disadvantaged kids
19/01/2009 05:00
Lookatvietnam – More than 400 children from orphanages and high schools in HCM City and more than 200 businesspeople and university students have participated in making traditional cakes banh chung (square glutinous rice cake) and banh tet (cylindrical glutinous rice cake)...