More than 1,500 poor people, of which 1,000 were children, in flood-affected Nam Tra My district of central Quang Nam province received free examinations and medicine in a joint-health care charity programme by the Da Nang-Hoan My Hospital and VinaCapital Foundation.
A music gala celebrating the upcoming 13th National Party Congress is scheduled to be held at the My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi on February 2, with the participation of nearly 1,000 artists.
The Hanoi-based Vietnam National Puppetry Theatre has launched an experimental art programme named “Trang” (The Moon) that features different types of puppetry to offer the audience a new experience of the Vietnamese culture.
Vietnamese TV series Ve Nha Di Con (Come Home, My Dear) has bagged another prize, winning the Literature and Art Award presented by the Union of Arts and Literature and Associations of Vietnam recently.
Dancers of the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will launch the Christmas season with the classical ballet The Nutcracker, a two-act production choreographed by Johanne Jakhelln Constant, art director of the Moving Art Theatre in Bodo, Norway, on December 11 and 12.
“Mung lua moi”, the new rice celebration, of the Ba Na ethnics in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai’s KBang district was restored during the “Great National Unity – Vietnam’s Cultural Heritage” week.
A special art performance will take place on November 12 night at the Au Co Art Centre in Hanoi to raise funds to support the storm-hit central region.
The Military Medical University on October 31 announced that two bowel transplants from live donors have been successfully carried out in Vietnam for the first time in history at Hanoi-based Military Hospital 103.
Japanese artist Tsuyoshi Sugiyama has been announced as an art advisor and stage director at the Vietnam Youth Theatre, the first time the theatre has a foreign art advisor and director as its official member.
Hanoi has changed remarkably, comprehensively through ups and downs and developed in all aspects. The capital has become the largest economic and cultural hub of the country.
A new documentary film on tuong or hat boi (classical theatre) produced by Vietnam Television will be released in Hanoi, Can Tho and HCM City this month as part of the station’s efforts to introduce Vietnamese culture and theatre to audiences.
The Vietnam News Agency (VNA)’s Sports & Culture newspaper held an award presentation ceremony for the first edition of the De Men arts awards for children in Hanoi on September 29.
Artists from traditional cai luong (reformed opera) troupes in HCM City will offer new shows this weekend to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the art.
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