French artistes will play a substantial part in the Hue Festival 2010, which will take place in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue from June 5-13.Ngo Hoa, Deputy Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and Head of the festival’s organising [ … ]

Vietnamese folk singing or “Quan Ho Bac Ninh” has been included in the list of “Best in Asia 2010” published by the US magazine The Times. In an article entitled “Dial-a-Lovely-Old-Song” by Martha Ann Overland on May 13, the magazine categorised Vietnamese [ … ]

Foreign arrives into Vietnam increased by 50.3% year on year to 440,000 in May, bringing the total number of foreign arrivals to 2.2 million in the first five months of the year or 37.7% over the same period last year.

Tourists mostly came from China, [ … ]

India’s famous dance troupe Odissi will perform in Hanoi on June 4 during their visit to Vietnam to attend the Hue Festival 2010.

The Indian artists will devote six dances to Vietnamese audience, namely Shiv Tandava-Jata Tabi, Abhinaya-Patha Chhari [ … ]

The Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST), Hoang Tuan Anh, visited Mexico from May 23-28 to strengthen bilateral ties in fields under his charge.

During the visit, Minister Anh attended the opening ceremony of the Vietnam Week in Mexico City [ … ]

An exhibition of Vietnamese pictures collected by G. Ponsanh, a Belgian Vietnam lover, has opened at the University of Liege in Liege city, Belgium, and will run until July 10. The collection on display features 140 paintings by famous Vietnamese painters [ … ]

The International Cooperation Bureau under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will organize the Vietnam Culture and Tourism Festival in Japan and repeat it in South Korea next month. Nguyen Van Tinh, Director of the bureau, said that the festival [ … ]