This week, we’ve received a lot of emails and letters from Indian listeners. One is Dr. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya who is President of the Chaitak Listeners Club in Paschim Medinipur district...
(VOVworld)-National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung on Saturday attended a ceremony to start the upgrade and expansion of the National Highway 15A and the construction of Truong Bon temple, showroom and memorial site...
(VOVworld) - Thang Long – Hanoi ancient dances is the elaborate combination of many cultures, which was an essential folk art in the daily life of the capital city’s dwellers. Ancient dances have disappeared from...
(VOV/VOVword)- The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization has held a seminar to review the first phase of the program to reduce...
This week, we’d like to begin with a frequent listener to the English program, Fumito Hokamura of Japan. In every letter, Fumito poses many questions about Vietnam that he...
(VOVworld) - The Politburo of the Party Central Committee on Monday held a national personnel conference on criticism and self-criticism in Hanoi. Politburo member Le Hong Anh pointed out contents...
(VOVworld) – Tensions in the Egyptian political arena have entered a new phase after the Supreme Court’s decision to dissolve the Parliament and block a Presidential Decree ordering the dissolved parliament to reconvene...
(VOVworld)-Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong on Friday met with voters in the Hanoi districts of Ba Dinh and Hoan Kiem to brief on outcomes of the recent National Assembly session...
(VOVworld) - There are almost 150 ancient communal houses in the central province of Thua Thien Hue. These places are not only of great architectural and historical value, but also house many ancient...
(VOVworld) – Venerable Thich Giac Nghia is one of the first six Buddhist monks in Khanh Hoa who volunteered to relocate to the Truong Sa (Spratly) Islands to manage temples there. He...
In its first month of operation, our website at www.vovworld.vn has received a lot of visitors, who are mostly shortwave listeners with constructive feedback
(VOV) - They are the Kitchen Gods or Kitchen Kings. They go back to Heaven on the 23rd of the last month of every lunar year to report to the Jade Emperor what happened on earth...
Gong music is sacred to the Ede, for whom the sound of gongs evokes their origin myth, the Dam San epic. This story tells about the Ede leader, Dam San, longed to marry...
(VOV) - A story about the legendary general being my first houseguest of the New Year happened long ago. It slept silently in some corner of my memory until a VOV...
(VOVworld) The village banyan tree, water well, and communal house yard have become common symbols of a Vietnamese rural village. A village well not only provides water for the villagers’ daily use...
(VOVWorld) The first days of the new lunar year are sacred to the Vietnamese people. This is time for everyone to make wishes. The calligraphy market by Van Mieu-Quoc Tu Giam in Hanoi, known...
(VOVworld)The Dong Da festival is observed annually on the 5th day of the 1st lunar month at Dong Da Hill in Hanoi. It commemorates the triumphant victory of King Quang Trung over...
The traditional Lunar New Year is meaningful to every Vietnamese. Those who live far away from home are filled with nostalgia and high hopes for the future of the homeland
Vietnamese embassies around the world are hosting banquets for the Vietnamese people living overseas to celebrate the traditional lunar New Year or Tet
(VOVworld) - Tet for Young Vietnamese people is a time for fun, not for food, which is the Vietnamese people’s old concept. When Tet arrives, they go out for fun,...