New Year’s Eve of a Vietnamese family

New Year’s Eve of a Vietnamese family

(VOVworld) – New Year’s Eve is so meaningful to the Vietnamese that no matter where they are, whatever job they do, they try to be available at the family...
Verses that touch millions of hearts

Verses that touch millions of hearts

(VOVworld)-70 years ago President Ho Chi Minh read a Lunar New Year poem he wrote to the Vietnamese people for the first time on Radio the Voice of Vietnam...
International community praises Fidel Castro

International community praises Fidel Castro

(VOVworld)-International friends are mourning the death of Cuba’s revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. From their perspectives, Castro is one of the greatest revolutionaries of the 20th century and a staunch...
 Wednesday September 21, 2016

Wednesday September 21, 2016

(VOVworld) - We want to welcome Russ Ivey of the US to VOV’s worldwide Dx’er community. Russ wrote us an emailed saying “I just recently picked up the shortwave listening hobby...
Family customs of the San Chi

Family customs of the San Chi

(VOVworld) – The San Chi of Luc Ngan district, Bac Giang province, have strict family rules and hierarchy. Family members love and respect each other without discrimination of daughters- or sons...
Two Koreas lower level of war alert in the border

Two Koreas lower level of war alert in the border

(VOVworld) - South Korea has lowered the high level war alert it had issued for its forces stationed at the border following the recent reduction in dangerously-escalated tensions with the North. According to...
Bombing in Afghanistan kills dozens

Bombing in Afghanistan kills dozens

(VOVworld) - A suicide bomb attack by the Taliban killed at least 21 people in Kunduz province on Saturday, the Afghan Interior Ministry said
UN peacekeeper killed in attack in Mali's Kidal

UN peacekeeper killed in attack in Mali's Kidal

(VOVworld) - Two civilians and a UN peacekeeper were killed when militants attacked a barracks used by the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) in the northern Malian...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

The traditional Vietnamese wedding is one of the most important ceremonies in Vietnamese culture with influence from Confucian and Buddhist ideologies. In Vietnam, as in many other countries, an engagement ceremony occurs from a week to...