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LookAtVietnam - Action-packed Bay Rong (Clash) has been selected to show at the 9th Tribeca Film Festival in New York City this spring.
LookAtVietnam - Action-packed Bay Rong (Clash) has been selected to show at the 9th Tribeca Film Festival in New York City this spring. New action film to hit cinemasVietnam-made action movie “Clash” is a box office...
An online forum on music, aeguitar.org, suddenly raised its doubt about Ngu Cung, a famous rock band in Vietnam that may have pirated foreign music.
Ngu Cung rock band. On March 12 the forum offered two pieces of evidence. First, Ngu Cung’s “Long Nguc Toi” (Dark Rib-Cage) is similar to “Mesa boogie mark iv + gibson + echoplex + Ebow”...
The winners of the Phan Chau Trinh Cultural Awards 2009 were named on March 19 at a press conference in HCM City.
Translator Le Minh Anh, who wins the Phan Chau Trinh Award 2009 for translation. For 2009 the education award will be presented to Prof. Ho Ngoc Dai. The translation award belongs to translators Pham Vinh Cu and Le Anh Minh. The research award...
A dancing play entitled “The Breath of Water” will be performed for the first time on a 1500sq.m underwater stage at the upcoming Hue Festival 2010.
The sketch of the underwater stage. The play tells a romantic love story about the separation and reunion of boys and girls in the dynastic era. Young talents like Linh Nga, Quynh Lien and Xuan Chien...
Hundreds of stars and fans of national cinema joined the 8th Golden Kite awards at the Friendship Palace in Ha Noi last night to celebrate the victory of Dung Dot.
Dung Dot and Choi Voi (Adrift) were thought to be the main contenders for this year’s best feature film.Dung Dot has beaten Choi Voi in previous international and national festivals, and it won...
The 6th HCM City Book Festival opened today, March 15, at Le Van Tam Park with 471 participating bookstores.
The festival will open from 8.30am until 10pm everyday from March 15-20. With around 200,000 books, the organizing board estimates that around 100,000 are being introduced to the public for the first time, including 50,000 translated books. The...
LookAtVietnam - The world-leading magazine for young women, the Cosmopolitan, first launched in Vietnam on March 15 with the April 2010 issue.Book showcase in HCM CityWhen will Vietnam earn money from int’l book festivals?Thousands of Illegal book copies detected in HCM CityCosmopolitan Vietnam will initially be distributed in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi,...
The Performance Arts Agency has proposed that the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism not host the Miss World 2010 pageant in Vietnam.
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RASS Group’s chairman Hoang Kieu and Misses World in Vietnam last year. According to the agency, Vietnam has many great anniversaries this year and it is not a favorable time to organize the Miss World pageant....
LookAtVietnam - Banh khuc is a traditional cake that originated in the Red River Delta hundreds of years ago and in Bac Ninh province it is considered more than just a snack – there it symbolises faithfulness and nobility. It was originally made as a special dish to offer guests at religious rituals or festivals of Quan Ho (traditional love duets) along...
LookAtVietnam – It was not too long ago that vegetarianism was an exotic, almost incomprehensible dietary habit for most residents in HCM City, one practised by other cultures and austere Buddhist monks.
Food to soothe the soul: People enjoy a vegetarian meal at the Gia Restaurant in HCM City’s District 3.Riding a rising current of piety, spirituality...
