On October 06, Sotheby’s sold two paintings of Cheo actors for USD 20.921 and USD 19.311. Bui Thanh Phuong, also a painter himself, said that he sent goodwill messages to Sotheby’s during the auction of such paintings. However, he has received no replies from the giant auction house.....

The mountainous district in the northwestern province of Son La is underlining its strength as a diary industry with a special beauty contest and tour to introduce local milk. Last Wednesday, Moc Chau hosted a beauty contest where the competitors were all cows who were judged not only on their looks but also their milk yield. The event also provided farmers the chance to compare notes on breeding. The winner, which produces 32.5 kilograms of milk per day, is owned by farmer Ha Van Luan, 50, from Thao Nguyen town. Luan got as his prize Delaval milch cow from Sweden.

Trung and Loc have spent some 25 years developing the musical instrument set made from stone. When they finished designing the Vietnamese 16-hole bamboo flutes in 1981 the late popular musician Luu Huu Phuoc assigned them to make the country’s stone musical instrument from a six-kilo “resounding” rock.....

The famous actress and director Fabien Onteniente will visit Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City to introduce their latest film “Disco” to the local movie-goers. The film has been watched by more than two million people in France this year. Emmanuelle Beart was placed 32nd among the 100 most charming stars in history by the Empire magazine in 1995.....

The current collection is comprised of a series of stunning poster-style prints, oil paintings, and confrontational sculptures created during ten years of living in Ha Noi. It looks like a propaganda series, but the artist claims he does not aim to create propaganda; he just paints with his feelings and inspiration. "When painting, I don't call upon my visitors to do anything. I just want them to look at the paintings and then think and do following their own way," Redington said.....

The prestigious Prix des Cinq Continents selected 28-year-old Huy Tran Minh’s book entitled La Princesse et Le Pecheur (The Princess and the Fisherman)....

The children and teenagers in her paintings are rendered in an appealingly pure manner, as simple and straightforward as the subject she describes....

Vietnamese customs of weddings, funerals, holidays and rituals all are attached to village community. marriages not only reflected the lovers' but also had to meet the interests of the family lines, the village; thus, the choice for future bride or bridegroom was done very carefully, which had to go through many formalities from the plighting ceremony, the official proposal to the bride's family.......

VietNamNet Bridge – The history of Dien Bien Phu, where Vietnam won its decisive victory to end the French occupation in 1954, goes back much further than five decades, and there's plenty more to explore than the war.