• SOCIETY IN BRIEF 19/3

    18/03/2011 05:00

    Quang Trung Software City celebrates 10th anniversary Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan congratulated Quang Trung Software City on its 10th anniversary, for the bold steps and great achievements it had made to grow so strongly and quickly into becoming a...

  • First-ever singing contest for middle-aged launched

    First-ever singing contest for middle-aged launched

    18/03/2011 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese ages 35 and up can take part in the “Evergreen Singing” contest, which will start on March 21. In 2009, Susan Boyle, an unknown from Scotland, stirred the world with her version of “I Dreamed a Dream” on the UK TV show...

  • Beauty queen and body art

    Beauty queen and body art

    18/03/2011 05:00

    Model Dam Thu Trang, one of the top 20 contestants of Miss Vietnam 2010, is to bare all for artists to paint natural symbols on her body to support Earth Day on March 26. Before joining this project, Trang learnt about body painting. She said that the art has...

  • ART & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 18/3

    ART & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 18/3

    17/03/2011 05:00

    Vietnamese musician writes song for Hollywood film What It’s All About by Thanh Bui, an Australian-Vietnamese singer-songwriter, has been chosen as the soundtrack for Everyday, a film directed by Richard Levine. The song was co-written by Bui, Alf...

  • Vietnam offers aid to Japan, evacuates citizens 

    17/03/2011 05:00

    A resident carries household belongings in a cardboard as his devastated house was due to be removed by earthmovers at Iwaizumi, northeastern Japan, on Thursday, March 17, 2011 following last week's massive earthquake and resulting tsunami....

  • Party honcho murder trial suspended 

    17/03/2011 05:00

    Nguyen Trong Nhan at the trial in Ho Chi Minh City on March 15 A Ho Chi Minh City court Tuesday (March 15) suspended the trial of two men accused of killing a senior Party district official last September after their lawyer refused to defend...

  • Voices soar for first International Choir Festival

    Voices soar for first International Choir Festival

    17/03/2011 05:00

    Thousands have braved the rain and came to the historic town of Hoi An to enjoy the opening of the first Viet Nam International Choir Festival. Central attraction : Artists perform on the opening day of the first Viet...

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