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14 selected local movies screened in Vietnam Film Week
07/10/2008 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge – 14 selected Vietnamese movies will be screened during the Vietnam Film Week, which runs from October 10 to 16 in both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam Film Week’s posters. (Photo: Bich Hanh) Week, which runs from October 10 to 16 in...
"Hanoi Emotion"
07/10/2008 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge – A photo gallery named “Hanoi Emotion” opened on Monday at Hang Bai Art Gallery in Hanoi to present photos awarded in the 38th Art Photo Contest organised by the Hanoi Association of Literature and Arts and Hanoi Photographic Artists’ Association...
Beer, pretzels, dancing: German band hits HCM City’s Oktoberfest
07/10/2008 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge – Trenkwalder, a four-member group from Germany, will give a folk music and dance performance at Oktoberfest, the biggest annual German cooking and beer festival of the year, in HCM City today. Fabio: German band will perform at...
Vietnamese musical performance enthrals Russian audience
06/10/2008 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge – For the first time, a Vietnamese artist has won the hearts and minds of the Russian audience, playing the Dan Bau - a typical Vietnamese musical instrument – in a Russian TV contest on October 5. During a live broadcast on Channel...
‘I want readers to remember me when I am alive’ - Marc Levy
06/10/2008 05:00
Best-selling French author Marc Levy at Monday’s press conference in Hanoi. French writer Marc Levy says he isn’t bothered when critics describe his work as overly commercial, something to read on the subway or at an...
Class act
06/10/2008 05:00
Cesar Award-winning actress Pham Linh Dan is currently filming a Vietnamese feature in the ancient town of Hoi An. A famed French actress, Vietnamese at heart, is choosy, but not about money....
Dien Bien Phu – Land of legend
06/10/2008 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge – The history of Dien Bien Phu, where Vietnam won its decisive victory to end the French occupation in 1954, goes back much further than five decades, and there’s plenty more to explore than the war. Dien Bien Phu - where Vietnam won...