The USAID Social Marketing for HIV Prevention Project re-launched the Number One Plus (N1P) condom and water-based lubricant pack at an event last evening in Ho Chi Minh Chi Minh at Bar 2000, 175 Cho Lon, District 6, HCMC. Following months of planning to better meet the needs of consumers and commercial outlets stocking the [...]
"Le Maitre des marionnettes" (The Master of water puppetry), a Vietnamese traditional water puppetry play, will debut at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris on February 10. This program is directed by Dominique Pitoiset, the director of Bordeaux National Theatre, in cooperation with the Vietnamese national water puppetry theatre. Water puppetry is a distinctive [...]
"Unit Asia", a young Japan-based Jazz band, will perform in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City early next month. The band will perform at the Youth Theatre in Hanoi (February 3) and Ben Thanh Theatre in Ho Chi Minh City (February 5), the Hanoi Moi newspaper reports. During their first visit to Vietnam, the [...]
The on-going exhibition "Typical images of Hanoi from 1873 to 1945" offers insights to the tranformation of Hanoi from an Eastern city to one that absorbed many Western influences.  The photo exhibition, which opened January 17 at the Hanoi- Thang Long Heritage Preservation center in Hanoi, introduces 80 photos, sketches, maps and documents, according to a [...]
A solo piano concert by talented French pianist Marie Vermeulin will take place at L’Espace in Hanoi at 8 p.m. on February 9. Vermeulin, won the 2nd Prize at the International Olivier Messiaen in 2007 as well as the Contest Maria Canals de Barcelona in 2006 and has frequently been invited to perform on [...]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: part 2 will finally be released in Vietnam this February, six months after opening in theaters worldwide. A high school netizen who goes by Bella Binh says she shed tears in class last week upon hearing that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: part 2 will finally be released [...]
An overview portray of 12 Vietnamese big chesses, to open on January 17 in Hanoi A special exhibition featuring paintings of dai gia, a Vietnamese term used to indicate a rich person or “big cheese,” will run from January 17 to February 4 in Hanoi, The Thao & Van Hoa newspaper reported. Titled Dai [...]
A young French award winner will perform piano solos at the French cultural center L’Escape in Hanoi on February 9. Marie Vermeulin, who finished second at the International Olivier Messiaen in 2007 and the Maria Canals international competition in Barcelona in 2006, will perform at the center at 24 Trang Tien from 8 pm. [...]
Tyra Banks (L) and winner of Vietnam Next Top Model 2011 Hoang Thi Thuy. Photo: Nguyen Truong Hoang Thi Thuy, one of the two skinniest contestants in Vietnam Next Top Model’s second season, became the winner in the finale held on January 8 in Ho Chi Minh City. After a five-month-long competition, Thuy defeated [...]
A performance by Quyen Van Minh, one of Vietnam’s most well known jazz saxophonists, and his friends will be held at the Hanoi Opera House on January 10. Minh, whose father is an amateur guitarist and saxophonist and mother a singer, is one of the first artists to perform and teach jazz in Vietnam. People’s [...]
