Book festival attracts foreign names
HCM City's annual book festival will open on Mar. 19 at Le Van Tam Park in District 1.
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HCMC’s book fest to kick off next week
The 7th bienial book festival, one the country’s biggest such events, will kick off in Ho Chi Minh City on March 19
Quyen Thien Dac to play with Trio PO Nilsson
Swedish outfit Trio PO Nilsson and Vietnamese jazz saxophonist Quyen Thien Dac will grace the capital stage on 8 p.m. this Sunday.
HBSO Opening concert
The HBSO’s new season got off to a fine start on Friday in Saigon’s Opera House, despite a last-minute change in the program.
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Winning clip of Buddha bestowing condoms panned
An animated clip aimed at raising people’s awareness about condoms has won a local contest but been heavily criticized for parodying religious figures
Serbian glamour girl joins city opera
Popular flutist Andjela Bratic from Serbia will join a classical opera show by the HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) under the baton of Nguyen Anh Son at the city’s Opera House on March 9.
Another use of coconut
To the residents of the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre, which is often dubbed “the country of coconuts,” the coconut tree means many things in their life. Coconuts are for food, coconut leaves for wrapping or roofing materials, coconut trunks for building materials, and so on and so forth. However, Le Van and Vo Van Ba, two residents of Ben Tre City, want to prove coconut trees can be used otherwise. That is coconut wood can be made into traditional Vietnamese musical instruments.
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Non La to launch musical shows in Ho Chi Minh City
Targeting foreign tourists with its traditional musical programs, the new Non La Theatre opens its first music show next Monday in Ho Chi Minh City
WFF helps Cat Tien Park develop eco-tourism
HCMC – The representative of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the managing board of Cat Tien National Park on Wednesday opened a community tourism guest house in Dong Nai Province in a bid to help local people develop eco-tourism.
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Paris spotlights traditional festivals
A place of culture: A customer sights photos in an exhibition that explores traditional Vietnamese culture and festivals. The exhibition has been held in the Vietnamese Culture Center in Paris. Photo PARIS — An exhibit of 80 photos of traditional Vietnamese traditional is happening at theVietnamese Culture Center in Paris, organised through the Vietnamese community in France to celebrate the 122nd birthday from the late Leader Ho Chi Minh.The
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Art auction to aid cleft palate surgery for kids
With higher cause: Wild Dream, an oil on canvas painting by Ha Hung Dung, is going to be offered in a charitable organisation auction held by Operation Smile Viet Nam in HCM City now. HCM CITY — Functions by several popular artists goes underneath the hammer in an annual charitable organisation dinner in HCM City on Saturday to boost funds for carrying out cleft palate procedures for Vietnamese children, this time around in Nghe An Province.To
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