CULTURE AND SPORT

Vietnam will play Thailand in the semis of the ongoing 2019 AFF Futsal Championship in Ho Chi Minh City, after the hosts beat Malaysia 4-2 in the last matchday of the group stage on October 23.

A street dance programme named ‘Dance Dance Asia ―Crossing the Movements 2019’, featuring three dance works created by a collaboration of emerging directors and dancers from across Asia, will take place October 24-26.

Some more streets in Hanoi’s Nam Tu Liem District are being fenced to serve the construction of a racetrack to host the country’s first F1 Grand Prix next year.

The 5th Hanoi cherry blossom festival will be held in the heart of the capital city from March 27-30, according to representatives of the municipal Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Master of Italian body language Luca Vullo and his mother, Angela Gabriele, will for the first time showcase the extraordinary skill of Italian people to communicate without words but using only the body language in an amusing show.

Award-winning movie Land of Mine will open the Danish Film Festival which will take place in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from October 26-31.

Vietnam’s top two chess players, Le Quang Liem and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, are competing in the FIDE chess.com Grand Swiss, which is taking place from October 10-21 in the COMIS Hotel and Golf Resort in Douglas, Isle of Man.

French violinist Régis Pasquier and Japanese pianist Yoko Kaneko are set to take the stage for a classical music performance, including well-known classical pieces by Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and César Franck at the L’Espace French Cultural

A Vietnamese musical, Đò Tình (Love Boat), will be staged at HCM City’s Thế Giới Trẻ (World of Youth) Drama Stage every Saturday in October and November.

Former world number one Andy Murray reached his first semi-final since the 2017 French Open with a battling three-set win over Romania's Marius Copil in Antwerp on Friday.

Vietnamese goalkeeper Đặng Văn Lâm was named among the 10 best goalies of the 2020 World Cup qualifiers in the Asian zone by afc.com on Wednesday.

From fierce typhoons and tight budgets to losing its dancers to cruise ships and theme parks, Ballet Philippines has weathered almost every type of storm, but as it celebrates its 50th anniversary the renowned arts organisation is determined the

Authorities of the southern central province of Binh Dinh have proposed building the statue of famous dead musician Trinh Cong Son on a local beach.

More than 7,000 people will join in the Hanoi International Heritage Marathon on October 20.

Thirteen circus troupes from around the world to entertain audiences from October 15-20 at Hanoi Central Circus.

Vietnam have clinched their second consecutive victory in the second round of the 2022 World Cup Asian qualifiers after brilliantly trouncing Indonesia 3-1 in their third Group G match at Kapten I Wayan Dipta Stadium in Bali on October 15.

The Cinema Department will check the censoring process of film Abominable which was pulled from Vietnamese cinemas for including a scene featuring a map which shows China's unilaterally declared "nine-dash line" in the East Sea.

Vietnam men's national team will be without key central midfielder Nguyen Tuan Anh as well as rookie Nguyen Trong Hung for their 2022 World Cup qualifier against hosts Indonesia on October 15.

A contemporary photography exhibition by 12 emerging Southeast Asian photographers will be held at Matca Space for Photography in Hanoi from October 11 to November 4.