February 22, 2012

February 22, 2012

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
Greece’s debt crisis still acute

Greece’s debt crisis still acute

(VOVworld) Eurozone finance ministers met in Brussels on Monday to consider a deal on the second bailout for Greece worth 130 billion USD and a major write down of privately held Greek...
Gongs in the lives of Central Highlanders

Gongs in the lives of Central Highlanders

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...
Writer Chi Trung wins regional award

Writer Chi Trung wins regional award

(VOVworld)-Vietnamese writer Nguyen Chi Trung has won the 2011 Southeast Asian Writers Award. Trung was honored for his novel “The Cry of Ms Ut”
February 15, 2012

February 15, 2012

Spring is all over Vietnam now and it’s the peak season of festivals in our country. These days, hundreds of thousands of people are making pilgrimages to places of...

Tran Dang Khoa - About General Giap

(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...
Vietnam Poetry Day marked nationwide

Vietnam Poetry Day marked nationwide

(VOVworld) Various activities are underway nationwide to mark the 10th Vietnam Poetry Day on Sunday. A large number of poets and writers from many countries and territories, and poetry lovers,...
January 11, 2012

January 11, 2012

Vietnam is experiencing the worst cold spell since the beginning of this winter with the temperature dropping to 9 degrees Celsius in the northern plain or even 2 in some mountainous...
Wednesday January 4, 2012

Wednesday January 4, 2012

New Year’s greeting cards have been pouring into our office this week. Listeners’ sincere wishes and beautiful postcards are making our office more colorful and joyful in these gloomy winter...
Christmas jubilantly celebrated across Vietnam

Christmas jubilantly celebrated across Vietnam

Tens of thousands of Vietnamese people poured out into the streets to join with Catholics and Protestants on Christmas Eve. In Hanoi, crowds of young people were flocking to the city centre the early evening, packing major streets and causing traffic to grind to a halt. A Christmas atmosphere prevailed at churches such around the capital...
Wednesday December 21, 2011

Wednesday December 21, 2011

Hello, I’m Kim Chi - welcome to the Letter Box on VOV Radio. Hi, everyone. I’m Nhat Quynh. We’re here every Wednesday to acknowledge listeners’ letters we got...