CULTURE AND SPORT

The Vietnam International Finger-Style Guitar Festival 2018 will take place at the Youth Theatre in Hanoi on August 25.

Vietnam U23 football team trounced Pakistan U23 3-0 to comfortably kick off their Asian Games 2018 (Asiad 18) campaign at Wibawa Mukti Stadium in Bekasi Regency, West Java, Indonesia, on August 14.

Vietnam will face Pakistan in the opening of Group D in the men’s football at the Asian Games (ASIAD) 2018 in Indonesia today.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism have approved the Mrs Vietnam Model 2018 beauty pageant for women from 25 to 50 years old.

The first Vietnam Puppetry Festival will be held on HCM City’s Nguyen Hue Street from August 16 to 18 with the participation of six Vietnamese theatres.

Vietnam’s Thai Son Nam won Lebanon’s Bank of Beirut 6-5 in a thrilling semi-final at the AFC Futsal Club Championship Indonesia 2018 that was held in Indonesia on August 10.

The National Museum of Vietnamese History in Hanoi has received 18 artefacts from different cultural periods from Germany.

The 2018 Hanoi International Piano Festival will begin a week of piano masterclasses, conferences and workshops at the National Academy of Music on August 11.

A ceremony to see off a Vietnamese sport delegation to the Asian Games 2018 (ASIAD 2018) took place in Hanoi on August 9.

Beauty queen Phan Thi Mo has defeated 50 contestants from many countries to be crowned as the World Miss Tourism Ambassador 2018.

Head coach Park Hang-seo has announced the men’s football squad of 20 players who will compete in the 2018 Asian Games (ASIAD) in Indonesia later this month.

More than 7,000 local and foreign runners from 52 countries and territories will race in the 2018 Manulife Đà Nẵng International Marathon – one of the top marathon destinations in Southeast Asia.

A concert entitled Autumn Melody 2018 will be held at the Hanoi Opera House on August 16 under the baton of conductor Le Phi Phi.

Despite his tight schedule with new film projects in the US, the director of Hollywood blockbuster, Kong: Skull Island, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, has still managed to contribute to Vietnam’s film industry.

Famous magazine Missosology has forecasted that Miss Vietnam Universe 2017 H'Hen-Nie could finish in top five of Miss Universe 2018.

A superb goal from defender Doan Van Hau in the 89th minute helped Vietnam beat Oman 1-0 in the ongoing U23 International Championship - Vinaphone Cup 2018 tournament in Hanoi on August 5.

A photo exhibition on the theme of ‘Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos in my mind’ kicked off in Hanoi on August 3, as a meaningful activity of the 12 journalists and photographers who visited Truong Sa on the occasion of

Top Vietnamese chess player Le Quang Liem finished second at the ninth Danzhou Super Grandmaster Tournament which concluded in China’s Hainan province on August 3.

Italian giants Juventus have officially opened a football academy for youngsters in Vietnam as the club’s first venture in Southeast Asia.