CULTURE AND SPORT

Quang Nam will host the 2017 RS: One World Championships, the sixth of its kind and Vietnam Open Windsurfing Race during Quang Nam Heritage Festival next year, according to the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

World football governing body FIFA has ranked Vietnam at No 32 in the women’s category.

The first Snow Festival opened in Sapa town in the northern province of Lao Cai as an event to celebrate Christmas Day and New Year 2017.

Vietnam’s national men’s football team ranks 134th in the latest FIFA rankings recently released.

Famous composer Nguyen Quoc Trung has just called on local artists to boycott comedian Minh Beo who has just returned to Vietnam after serving nine months in jail in the US for child sexual assault.

Vietnam won the men’s team title at the Southeast Asia Table Tennis Championships 2016 in Indonesia on December 21.

50 lacquer, oil and acrylic paintings are being displayed at the exhibition of artist Van Duong Thanh to welcome the lunar year of rooster.

Hoàng Thu Thảo won the best national costume award and was among the top 10 at Miss Tourism International 2016, which was held on December 18 in Shanghai, China.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Culture is producing two documentaries aimed at advertising domestic tourism following the ministry’s tourism advertising through cinema project.

As 2016 draws to a close, DTiNews picks out the most outstanding sports events of the year.

US singer-songwriter Richard Marx will perform at the Christmas Concert 2016 in Hanoi today, December 19, alongside Vietnamese singers.

Midfielder Luong Xuan Truong is on top of an ongoing poll by goal.com voting for the best player of the ASEAN Football Federation Suzuki Cup.

Monday nights feel like Saturdays in Rio's Little Africa neighborhood when the sun sets and the samba starts to play.

A special exhibition featuring Vietnam’s national treasures will take place at the Vietnam National Museum of History for five months from January to May 2017.

The Vietnam U20 squad will fly to Germany to attend a long-term training camp to prepare for the FIFA U20 World Cup set to transpire in the Republic of Korea next year.

With the previous four consecutive victories without conceding any goals, title favourites Thailand proved their strength at the AFF Suzuki Cup 2016 and quickly took a 1-0 lead against the hosts in the final’s first leg at Pakansari Stadium

Three sculptures and 20 paintings by renowned Vietnamese and other Southeast Asian artists will go under the hammer at an auction in HCM City this Saturday.

Hanoi’s chess star Tran Tuan Minh has brought home a silver medal at the 2016 Philippines International Chess Championship.

Vietnamese director Phung Dinh Dung and his animated short Painted Flower made the final round for the China's KingBonn Award, propelling him into the Top 41 best directors of the International New Media Short Film Festival 2016.