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Two Buddhist monks in southern Vietnam have been banned from leaving a monastery and must maintain zero contact with the outside world for three months starting yesterday after they were found having been kissed by a famous pop singer. During a charity auction on November 4 at the “Khong Ten” Nightclub in Ho Chi Minh [...]
Luu Hien Trinh from Hai Phong City has won the annual ‘Tieng Hat Truyen Hinh’ (TV Singing) contest organised by Ho Chi Minh City Television (HTV). Trinh, a 21-year-old student from the Vietnam National Academy of Music impressed judges with her well-trained voice, confidence and emotional performance, defeating seven other finalists–four men and three women–in [...]
Well-known local singer Cam Van and her husband, singer Khac Trieu, have recently accused a man named Ta Hung Mau in the southern province of Ca Mau of appropriating their money to a tune of half a million dollars. In 2009, the Tung Mau was introduced to Van and Trieu via a friend. Mau managed [...]
Award-winning singer Khanh Hoa has released a DVD of songs in praise of the Truong Sa (Spratly) Islands and the troops stationed there. The DVD is one of the first filmed entirely on the islands of the offshore archipelago. The DVD, entitled Gan Lam Truong Sa (The Spratlys Are So Close) arose out of Hoa’s [...]
A Xam folk music performance will be held in Vietnam Women’s Museum on October 26-28. Xam singing is long-standing folk gentre from northern Vietnam with the two major genres of Xam cho (Xam singing performed at markets) and Xam co dau (performed in groups at drinking establishments). Only Hanoi had Xam tau dien, and it was particular well known for being performed on the [...]
Vietnamese singer Vo Trong Phuc, who finished in the top three of Vietnam’s Got Talent 2012, has released his first music video (MV) in English, Cyndi Lauper’s 80s classic Time After Time. The melody of the song is romantic and harmonious and the video is very peaceful, rustic and shows Saigon scenery filmed in an [...]
While a scheduled performance of renowned singer Khanh Ly in Vietnam 37 years after she left the country has become headlines of local media this week, a Vietnamese-language news website in the US said in its Wednesday report that she is not returning to Vietnam. Khanh Ly has no idea about the performance in Vietnam, [...]
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Singer Thai Thuy Linh couldn’t contain her happiness when she saw hundreds of patients and health workers tapping their toes and singing with artists in the main yard of the Viet Nam National Otorhinolaryngology Hospital last Friday. The singer made a surprise visit to help bring temporary relief to both patients and doctors, who rarely [...]
Vietnam’s singer Duc Tuan and violinist Bui Cong Duy will join Asia’s famous opera singer Rachelle Gerodias at a concert held in Manila, the Philippines on August 28. The event will also involve Joanna Ampil, a star of theUK’s West End opera stage. In early March, Duc Tuan, Joanna Ampil and Rachelle Gerodias performed together at the [...]