• Elderly folk singer finishes career at the Hanoi Opera House 

    07/01/2011 05:00

    The cold winter weather could not keep people from the Hanoi Opera House to witness the last performance of singer Ha Thi Cau on Tuesday, January 4. Cau performed xam, a type of folk music dating back to the Tran...

  • ASEAN Golden Voice Contest 2011 returns to Vietnam 

    07/01/2011 05:00

    Seventeen singers from ASEAN member countries are participating in the ASEAN Golden Voice Contest 2011 in Ho Chi Minh City from January 5 to 8. The singing contest opened with traditional and folk songs sung in the...

  • Vietnam is losing living heritages

    Vietnam is losing living heritages

    02/01/2011 05:00

    Six years ago when Vietnam was compiling the file of Quan ho folk music to submit to the UNESCO to be recognized as a world intangible cultural heritage, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism conferred the “Living heritage” titles to six senior...

  • A photo shoot, commando style 

    A photo shoot, commando style 

    02/01/2011 05:00

     A photo from the “S.W.A.T. rescue” series that Tung shot according to his and the customer’s storyboard. A park. A cathedral. A bridge, old or new. A street...

  • S.Korea hands over restored Vietnam royal musical instruments 

    01/01/2011 05:00

    The restored bien chung (brass bells) are handed over to Hue city Imperial Relics Preservation Center. Two sets of restored bien chung (brass bells) and bien khanh (stone gongs), royal court music percussion instruments, were handed...

  • Ancient Cham shrine discovered in central Vietnam 

    31/12/2010 05:00

    An ancient Cham shrine was discovered in the Mo Duc District of the central province of Quang Ngai on December 28. Dr. Nguyen Dang Vu, director of the province’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, unexpectedly...

  • Multicultural concert at L’Espace 

    31/12/2010 05:00

    French, Spanish, and Vietnamese musicians will perform at “The Windy Days” concert at the French cultural center L’Espace in Hanoi January 15. Among the performers are saxophonist and director Pierre Diaz, singer...

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