Film

Ho Chi Minh hosts French film festival

11 award-winning and nominated French-language movies will be screened in the city starting this weekend

Film school backs student’s controversial video

The faculty of the HCM University of Cinema and Theatre has said there is no problem with “Two Bedrooms”, a film assignment by one of its cinema students

Local movie to be released in France

Award-winning Vietnamese movie “Bi, Dung So!” (Bi, Don’t Be Afraid) will be released in France on March 14

Vietnamese film to screen at Cannes

The Vietnamese movie Canh Ba Ba (Turtle Soup), which was among the best films produced in the 48-hour Film Project in 2011, will be screened at this year's Cannes film festival's Short Film Corner.

Cannes to open with "Moonrise Kingdom"

The 2012 Cannes film festival will open with Wes Anderson's 1960s drama "Moonrise Kingdom", starring Bruce Willis and Bill Murray

Vietnam teams up with regional filmmakers

A commercial and an independent film project with Vietnamese filmmakers and their Southeast Asian counterparts on board are both getting under way, promising exciting new choices for the local cinema

Free film series reflects cultural, social issues

A series of films reflecting various modern life cultural and social issues will be screened as part of the UNESCO Culture and Development Week.

Oldest film based on Dickens found in Britain

An archivist at the British Film Institute has stumbled across a 1901 movie just one minute long which turns out to be the earliest surviving film featuring a character from the works of Charles Dickens

‘Pearls of Far East' movie celebrates role of women

American-Vietnamese Cuong Ngo's first feature film, Ngoc Vien Dong (Pearls of the Far East ), featuring the lives of seven Vietnamese women, is screened on Mar. 8, International Women's Day.

Local movie comes third at global 48 Hour Film project

Vietnamese movie “Canh Ba Ba” (Turtle Soup) by Yeti group has just won the prize for the Second Runner Up for Best Film at the Filmapolooza 2011 in America

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From Business

Firms advised to focus on TPP

HN — Domestic businesses should positively build plans and methods to grow marketplaces in nations joining the Trans-Off-shore Partnership (TPP) Agreement.Ngo Chung Khanh, deputy director from the Secretary of state for Industry and Trade's Multilateral Trade Policy Department, made the suggestion in a conference in Ha Noi yesterday.The TPP pact, also called the Trans-Off-shore Proper Economic Partnership Agreement, is really a multilateral free trade deal that aims to help liberalise the financial systems

Blue chips lead share plunge

HN – Blue nick declines ongoing to tug shares lower around the HCM City Stock Market today.As much as 80 percent from the top 30 shares by market capitalisation and liquidity sank, which the 2nd biggest share PV Gas, HCM City Infrastructure Investment (CII), Sea Group (OGC) and Sacombank Investments (SBS) fell through the daily limit of 5 percent.Only mixer Masan Group (MSN), property developer Quoc Cuong Gia Lai (OQC) and Song Da Urban & Industrial Zone Investment and Development (SJS) bucked the