(VOVWORLD) -April is Autism Acceptance Month to raise awareness about autism, which is a complex brain disorder that often inhibits a person’s ability to communicate, respond to surroundings, and form relationships with others. On this occasion, the To He project held an exhibit titled “Iu Iu Iu”, showcasing the artwork of 7 autistic children at 8 Do Quang Street, Hanoi. The event aims to open a window on autistic children’s values and abilities through their artwork, inspire families with autistic kids, and change the community awareness of autism. The exhibit, part of the “Light It Up Blue 2018” campaign, run until April,30.

(VOVWORLD) - Music Professor Dang Ngoc Long has a long association with Vietnamese music. He is the person who popularized Vietnamese music including Nghe Tinh and Quan Ho folk songs in Europe.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam is a word that always haunts the minds of American war veterans, who fought during the war in the country shaped like the letter “S”. More than 40 years after the war ended, memories of what they had done and what they had witnessed still torment the hearts and minds of veterans, with many of them turning to psychological treatment to try and escape some of the emotions it stirs. But everything changes when veterans return to Vietnam, the place where they still survive. The image of a peaceful and beautiful Vietnam at present somehow helps ease their minds.

(VOVWORLD) -An exhibition called “Finding Memories” has opened at the Hoa Lo relic site in Hanoi, marking the 45th anniversary of the historic battle against US B-52 bombers in December, 1972 - “Dien Bien Phu in the Air". The exhibit’s 250 items recall the dramatic 12 days and nights of the fierce US bombing attacks, and the city’s defense by the Vietnamese people, and retells the stories of the American pilots imprisoned in Hoa Lo. Viet Anh reports:

(VOVWORLD)- Improvisational Comedy or Improv, a form of live theater in which the plot, characters and dialogue are made up on the spot, first appeared in Hanoi in 2005. In 2015, with the establishment of the Rotten Grapes Club performing Improv in English, improv became popular among English learners and foreigners living in Vietnam. But improv has found a wider audience thanks to a recent show performing improv in Vietnamese, co-organized by The Rotten Grapes and the newly-established Hanoi Improvisation Club. In this week’s Sunday Show, we’ll talk to the two clubs’ comics to find out more about this exciting form of theater.

(VOVWORLD) - At a get-together of schoolmates earlier this year, I learned about Chi ceramics, a long-famous Hanoi brand.

(VOVworld) - Over years, the Vietnamese concepts of love and marriage have evolved. Nowadays, single mothers, cohabitation, same-sex marriage, and sex before marriage are becoming more accepted. Males and females are now free to find their own partners and marriages are built on love and respect. Attitudes toward these things were very different in the past.

(VOVworld) – Mother Goddess worship, or Đạo Mẫu”, is very popular belief in an agriculture-based country like Vietnam, where farmers strongly depend on nature. When people are happy and joyful, they come to the Mother; and when they feel sad, they seek comfort from Her. Even long before the UNESCO recognition as the world’s intangible cultural heritage last year, “Đạo Mẫu” has always been considered a unique part of Vietnamese culture.

(VOVworld) - Viet Nam is home to 54 ethnic groups, each with its own lifestyles, customs, traditions, and, of course, worship faiths. Ancestral and gods worship is central to the spiritual lives of the ethnic people living in Vietnam’s northern regions including Tay, Nung, Dao, Thai, and Muong. As the custom of hanging worship paintings in ritual ceremonies remained, a large number of worship paintings are preserved.

(VOVworld) -Vietnamese royal embroidery, the art of decorating fabric with a needle and thread, has a history of more than 700 years. As time passed, embroidery came and went in popularity, but it still connected closely to, and reflected the cultural values and beliefs, of the Vietnamese people. Nowadays, even though embroidery machines have become very sophisticated they still can not replace the meticulous imperial embroidery made by hand.