CULTURE AND SPORT

A special show featuring contemporary dances and ballets will be restaged by artists of the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra (HBSO) on Saturday (April 10).

Authorities in Quang Ninh Province have just awarded the local football team VND500 million (USD21,739) for their outstanding achievements in the V-League.

A women's AFC Champions League will be launched in 2023, Asia's football governing body has told AFP, with the new international club tournament aiming to increase the strength of the female game across the continent.

A group of folk music artists have gathered together in a project honouring Vietnam’s 18th century masterpiece ‘Truyen Kieu’ (Tale of Kieu) by celebrated poet Nguyen Du (1765-1820).

Standing vice-chairman of the Vietnam Football Federation Tran Quoc Tuan, Coach Park Hang-seo and other members of the Vietnamese national football team received their first Covid-19 shots on Monday morning in Hanoi.

A kaleidoscope of cultures, rituals, and cuisine of ethnic minority groups around the country will be highlighted throughout April at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism in Son Tay town on the outskirts of Hanoi.

The Việt Nam Restaurant Association, in coordination with the Việt Nam Cuisine Culture Association and the World Food Travel Association, has launched the Việt Nam Food Travel Map to promote local cuisine and tourist destinations.

An exhibition displaying artworks by children with autism is being held in Hanoi to celebrate World Autism Awareness Day (April 2).

A Japanese art collector has just donated 238 paintings by well-known Vietnamese artists to the Danang Fine Arts Museum in the central city of Danang.

A total of 20 Vietnamese athletes who are due to compete in the upcoming 2021 Tokyo Olympics were vaccinated against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on March 30 at the 108 Military Central Hospital.

In a South Korean rice field, the teenage world drone-racing champion is preparing to defend his title in one of the planet's fastest and highest-tech sports.

Miss Vietnam 2020 runner-up Nguyen Le Ngoc Thao has finished in the top 20 of Miss Grand International 2020 during the gala night in Bangkok, Thailand, on March 27.

A art exhibition themed "Mien ky uc” (memory) featuring lacquer paintings by People's Artist, painter Chu Manh Chan, opened at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum in Hanoi on March 26.

The People's Committee of Hue City (Thua Thien - Hue Province) has just issued a plan to organise Hue Traditional Craft Festival 2021, which will take place from May 29 to June 26, 2021, with a series of new activities.

A thematic exhibition titled "Ngay hoi non song” (National Festival) opened at Dak Lak Museum in Dak Lak Province on March 24, aimed at celebrating the upcoming election of deputies to the 15th National Assembly (NA) and People's Councils

Midfielder Ngo Hoang Thinh of Ho Chi Minh City Football Club has been suspended for the remainder of this year following his horrendous two-footed tackle on Hanoi Football Club's Do Hung Dung in a V. League game on Tuesday.

When the Tokyo Olympics torch relay kicks off in Fukushima on Thursday, runners are hoping it will show the world the area is no "nuclear wasteland", a decade after the 2011 disaster.

The exhibition centre in the Bat Trang Ceramic Village is being completed in Hanoi to showcase craft village products.

The beauty pageant Vietnam Peace Bella 2021 was kicked off at a press conference in the central city of Da Nang on March 20.