CULTURE AND SPORT

Vietnam got off to a good start in a comprehensive 6-0 victory over Brunei in their opening match in Group K of the 2020 AFC U23 Championship qualifying round yesterday.

Vietnamese filmmakers want to use Netflix as a way to market their films to international audiences but have faced many difficulties.

A catwalk will be installed at the botanical garden in central Hanoi for the Autumn-Winter fashion week, to take place from March 22-24.

The annual Danang International Fireworks Festival will be cut in half from two months to one this year according to local authorities.

Director Luong Dinh Dung said that he had completed his new independent film, Drowsy City, and planned to bring it to various international film festivals before its official release in Vietnam this August.

Director Viet Tu has won in the intellectual property infringement trial over the popular The Quintessence of Tonkin show.

Authentic Singaporean cuisines will be introduced at the Singapore Festival which will be held for the first time in Hanoi on March 23- 24.

A new dance Bleu Neon co-created by Vietnamese and French contemporary dance artists will be staged at the Factory Contemporary Arts Centre in Ho Chi Minh City’s district 2 on March 22.

The newly-opened museum for traditional medicine in Hoi An Town is located at 46 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street. The opening is part of a series of activities to mark the 44th anniversary of Hoi An Liberation Day.

The first Singapore cultural festival will be held on March 23 and 24 at Ly Thai To Park in central Hanoi, under a cooperative arrangement between the Embassy of Singapore and the Singapore Tourism Board in Vietnam.

Top 5 Miss Universe 2018 H'Hen Nie has posed in a new photoshoot of designer Do Manh Cuong featuring the beautiful landscape and elephants of her hometown in the Central Highlands.

Nearly 2,000 foreign and domestic runners will take part in the 61st National Marathon Tournament organised by Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper in Vung Tau city, the southern province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau, on March 24.

The Vietnamese billiards team competing at the ongoing UMB World Three-cushion Championship for National Teams have reached the quarterfinals of the competition.

The fifth annual French culinary festival Goût de France on March 21 will feature 51 restaurants from Vietnam.

Hanoi People's Court on Thursday started the first trial in the intellectual property infringement between a local company and a renowned director over the popular The Quintessence of Tonkin show.

According to reports in the German media, Bundesliga club Borussia Monchengladbach have set their sights on signing young Vietnam national team star Doan Van Hau.

A K-pop star has quit after admitting he watched illicit sex videos received from another artist, his agency said Thursday, the third singer to be engulfed in a scandal sweeping South Korea's music industry.

A burgeoning K-pop sex scandal claimed a second scalp as a singer who rose to fame after coming second in one of South Korea's top talent shows admitted secretly filming himself having sex and sharing the footage.

Eight elephants joined a football match among some of their other activities at the on-going Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak.