Entertainment

Famous singer Trong Tan has submitted his petition to the National Music Academy so that he can leave his teaching job.

Audiences will be given a rare treat with the best performers from Europe and Asia combining for contemporary dance performances to be held in Hanoi from September 25.

The Do Son buffalo fighting festival in the northern port city of Hai Phong will be recognised as a national intangible cultural heritage on Thursday when the festival takes place.

After being stored for more than 100 years by collectors who thought it was a forgery, a work by Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh has finally been authenticated and unveiled in Amsterdam.

Hundreds of examples of the Ao Dai from Vietnam’s three best known designers were shown at Chambord Castle in France.

Indonesia said on Saturday the final of the Miss World pageant later this month would take place on the Hindu-majority holiday island of Bali instead of near the capital, after days of Muslim hardline protests.

Vietnam Television and CJ E&M of South Korea’s CJ Group have signed a deal for a film project about the lives of overseas students.

He was a spy like no other, respected by both sides, enemy and friend alike. His story, told six years ago in a book by Larry Berman, an American historian, surprised and even shocked the US reading public.

Composer Nguyen Anh 9, who has made great contributions to the Vietnamese music scene, has decided to leave the stage.

Lai Huong Thao, Miss Sports 2012, has flown to Indonesia to represent Vietnam at the 63rd Miss World beauty contest.

Actress Angela Phuong Trinh has been temporarily suspended from performing because she pole danced scantily clad.

Despite his old age, the 2013 Bui Xuan Phai - Love for Hanoi Awards winner, Photographer Quang Phung, is still engrossed in capturing moments in Hanoi.

The ‘Asian Journalists' Culture Forum' will take place in Gwangju City in the Republic of Korea on September 5, 2013, with an aim to promoting journalists' contribution to cultural exchanges and communication among the Asian countries.

Well-known Vietnamese director Dang Nhat Minh has received the Kim Dae-jung Nobel Peace Film Award at the Gwangju International Film Festival which is being held in the Republic of Korea.

The first pan-pipe festival of the H’Mong ethnic group opened in Dong Van Stone Plateau in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang on August 31, attracting hundreds of ethnic artists.

A four-month exhibition at Hanoi’s National History Museum is showcasing almost 140 priceless pieces of ancient Vietnamese jewellery.

Public controversy arose recently when a veteran composer pointed out weak points of several top singers and received a rude reply from one of them.

The Six Tones, a Vietnamese-Swedish experimental music ensemble, will launch its double album “Signal in Noise” in Hanoi on August 30.