(VOVWORLD) - The Monsoon Music Festival 2023, which began last Saturday, treats audiences to a unique musical experience and serves as a platform for cultural exchange between Vietnam and other countries
(VOVWORLD) - The Torito de Pucará or Pucara bull statue is a character full of mysticism and clay-based art commonly found in the South of Peru. The colorful character is the most representative ceramic of...
(VOVWORLD) - 18 handmade ceramic Pucara bull statues, one of the most specific symbols of traditional Peruvian pottery, are on display at an exhibition in Hanoi, the first in a series...
(VOVWORLD) - The UK Festival in downtown Hanoi last weekend featured a series of activities, offering a unique opportunity to explore the UK, its culture and others and its connection with Vietnam. Bringing together...
(VOVWORLD) - Diverse, colorful patterns, shapes and blocks are shared features of Saudi Arabia’s Al-Qatt-Al-Asiri art and the brocade art of Sapa in Vietnam, according to Dr. Hiba Mostafa S....
(VOVWORLD) - Li is a folk song form practiced by the Chokri people, also known as Chakhesang Naga, in the Northeast of India. Li, the nearly forgotten music of the Chakhesang Naga tribe, one of the major Naga ethnic groups,...
(VOVWORLD) - Mantra yoga is seen as one of the easiest ways to achieve the difficult state of internalizing the sense-oriented mind from the external world and focusing on inner consciousness. In Vietnam,...
(VOVWORLD) - When thinking about Italian specialties, pizza or pasta are usually the first images that come to people’s minds. But do you know that Espresso – the world’s iconic coffee...
(VOVWORLD) - Budapest, the capital of Hungary, seamlessly combines its past and present, exemplified by Buda and Pest, the two distinctive halves of the city separated by the Danube River. While Buda offers a tranquil and somewhat...
(VOVWORLD) - Iran is famous the world over for its intricate and striking textiles, specifically the handwoven Persian carpet. Carpet weaving is an essential part of Persian culture and Iranian art, and in 2010 was...
(VOVWORLD) - Bhutan is an amazing place in terms of human development, where they do not use GDP as a marker of economic development, but Gross National Happiness as a marker of real development...
(VOVWORLD) - Bhutan has, for centuries, viewed happiness as a core responsibility of government. The Gross National Happiness (GNH) Index was formally adopted as a development indicator in Bhutan’s 2008 Constitution and up...
(VOVWORLD) - Have you ever watched or played Floorball? It’s something like indoor hockey and was invented in Sweden. It was introduced to Southeast Asia nearly 10 years ago but has attracted the attention of few people in...
(VOVWORLD) - After a five-year hiatus, Europe Village 2023 has returned to continue its mission of showcasing European cultures and reaffirming the EU's motto: united in diversity, says EU Ambassador to...
(VOVWORLD) - “Songkran Festival”, “Songkran Day”, and “Thai Water Splashing Festival” are different names for Thailand’s most famous festival. It celebrates the Thai New Year and is the biggest and most important festival...
(VOVWORLD) - What do you know about the culture of Hungary, a landlocked country in central Europe? A generation of Vietnamese studied and worked in Hungary and knew the country quite well. But it...
(VOVWORLD) -Amed is an underrated and hidden gem on the east coast of Bali, Indonesia. It’s an area developing for tourism while holding on to tradition. It is slowly becoming known as a destination for backpackers...
(VOVWORLD) - Poland’s “Wet Monday”, locally known as Śmigus Dyngus, takes place annually after Easter Sunday when people get water thrown on them. This year it falls on April 10. Traditionally boys soak girls on this special...
(VOVWORLD) - Kintsugi is the Japanese art of putting broken pottery pieces back together with lacquer and gold and at the same time enhancing the cracks. Repair in Western culture aims to return the...
(VOVWORLD) - Traditionally, henna is used to paint blessings on the skin of most brides before a Muslim wedding ceremony. At a recent gathering in Hanoi to introduce the social and cultural transformation of Saudi Arabia, many...