HCM CITY (VNS) — Several music and dance performances will be held in HCM City to celebrate National Theatre Day, the 12th day of the eighth lunar month [which falls on Thursday this year]. A gala started yesterday with dozens of actors from various theatres performing together at Cong Nhan Theatre. The theatres include cai luong (renovated theatre), tuong (classical theatre), cheo (traditional opera), and circus and puppet show artists. Highlights of the shows will include cai luong and drama extracts from popular plays like Tron Doi Vuong To (Love Forever), Ben Binh Than (Binh Thanh Wharf), Phia Sau Toi Ac (Behind the Crime) and Nguoi Dan Ba Uong Ruou (Drunk Women). The performances will feature well-known stars Thanh Loan, Thanh Ngan, Tu Suong, My Uyen and Quy Binh. Organised by the city's Theatres Association in co-operation with Tran Huu Trang Cai Luong Theatre, the event will be broadcast live on HCM City Television's HTV9. Cultural houses will organise exhibitions of … [Read more...] about Theatre festival comes to HCM City
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HCM City TV music show comes to northern youth
Local Lowdown (31-10-2009) HCM City TV music show comes to northern youth HCM CITY — HCM City Television's monthly music show Hoa Nhip Ban Tre (Enjoying Youth) will be held for the first time in Ha Noi tonight at the Giang Vo Exhibition Centre. The music show, which kicked off in HCM City in May in HCM City, will feature young Southeast Asian and Vietnamese singers performing together at monthly shows highlighting different topics. This month's show called Hoi Ngo Bac Nam (Meeting Between the North and the South) will include performances by Malaysian singer Vinxlim as well as Vietnamese singers and groups, including pop star Ho Quynh Huong, Tuan Hung, Hoang Hai and Luu Huong Giang. The singers will perform each other's hits as well as their own, including new combinations and duets. The show will be broadcast live on HTV9. National marketing magazine marks move to bimonthly HCM CITY — Marketing Viet Nam magazine will mark its new status as a bimonthly tomorrow with an … [Read more...] about HCM City TV music show comes to northern youth
Live music show for youth premiers on HCM City TV
Live music show for youth premiers on HCM City TV (23-05-2009) Ready to rock: (from left) Minh Hang, Cao Thai Son, and boy band La Thang will perform in Hoa Nhip Ban Tre (Enjoying With the Youth), a live music show to be broadcast by HCM City Television starting today. — VNS File Photo HCM CITY — HCM City Television is set to premiere a new monthly music show today which will see young singers performing together with established Southeast Asian and Vietnamese singers. Thefirst edition of Hoa Nhip Ban Tre (Enjoying With the Youth) at the Nguyen Du Club in District 1 will see Minh Hang, Cao Thai Son, and boy band La Thang perform along with Singapore singer Leon Lim and pop star Ho Quynh Huong. It will be called He Nhiet Doi (Tropical Summer). The show will feature a different topic related to youth each month - like cultural events and special days like Teachers' Day. The singers will perform their own and each other's hits while members of the audience will be … [Read more...] about Live music show for youth premiers on HCM City TV
10,0000 walk for charity in HCM City
Domestic Press Highlights (17-11-2009) 10,0000 walk for charity in HCM City More than 10,000 officials, office workers, students, and others participated in a charity walk in HCM City organised last Sunday by the HCM City chapter of the Viet Nam Fatherland Front Committee and HCM City Television. The event raised more than VND6.1 billion (US$341,300) for poor people in the city, around the same amount as last year. Nhan Dan (People) Rubber exports expected to hit $1b Viet Nam is expected to export 650,000 tonnes of rubber worth US$1 billion this year, an increase of 5 per cent over last year, the Viet Nam Rubber Association said. Exports in the first nine months of the year, at 454,000 tonnes worth $711 million, were 6 per cent higher than in the same period last year. International rubber prices rose to $1,843 a tonne from $1,500 in the middle of the year, the association said. Nguoi Lao Dong (The Labourer) Banks' interest-subsidy loans top $23.2b Nearly VND415 trillion (US$23.2 … [Read more...] about 10,0000 walk for charity in HCM City
Mongolian victorious in HCM City Cup
Mai Cong Hieu of Domesco Dong Thap won the final stage of the HCM City Television Cycling Cup which finished at Thong Nhat (Reunification) Palace on the occasion of the South Viet Nam Liberation Day. He finished the stage in 4 hours 16.28 seconds to beat Huynh Thanh Quan of Military Zone 7 and his teammate Tran Quoc Dung. However, Mongolia's Tuukhaigai took the race yellow jersey (best overall time) with an accumulated time of 55:43:53. Mongolia also won the team event. Do Tuan Anh of Domesco Dong Thap won the green jersey for top sprinter with 61 points, while Mai Nguyen Hung of the Sai Gon Plant Protection team took the red jersey and the title of King of the Mountains. The race, which is the nation's largest, attracted 84 local and foreign contestants, who covered 17 stages from Ha Noi to HCM City. Frankfurt pick strong squad Eintracht Frankfurt will include goal poacher Alexander Meier in the squad for their friendly match against Viet Nam at My Dinh National Stadium next … [Read more...] about Mongolian victorious in HCM City Cup