CULTURE AND SPORT

The coach of Thailand's national football team has shocked fans by resigning from his post after leading the War Elephants through a disappointing 2018 World Cup bid.

Vietnam will play rivals Japan in Group B of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U20 Futsal Championship, after a draw was held on March 30 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Three Vietnamese films will be screened at the 70th annual Cannes Film Festival, to be held from May 17 to 28.

Vietnam ranked first at the 12th Southeast Asian Youth Athletics Championships which closed on March 28 in the Philippines.

The second National Don Ca Tai Tu Festival, themed “Southern Don Ca Tai Tu—Preservation and Development” will be held from April 8-12 in Binh Duong Province.

Three foreign film projects in Vietnam have been approved by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism this year.

Le Thanh Tung brought home the first gold medal for Vietnam at the ongoing 2017 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Doha, Qatar after producing a brilliant performance in the men’s vault category.

The Australian Embassy and Consul-General in Vietnam are hosting the second annual Taste of Australia promotion during the month of April 2017.

The International Culinary and Music Festival - Food Fest 2017 will take place for the first time in Hanoi from April 7-9.

Painting auctions and the art trade in general are not new to Vietnam and are definitely not something unfamiliar to the world. But a professional auction session at the Chon Auction House attracting many painting collectors and tycoons was

The Olympic Run Day for Public Health 2017 will take place across the country at 7am on Sunday, according to the National Sports Administration.

Chefs from many countries attended the second Hoi An International Food Festival which opened at the An Hoi Sculpture Park Wednesday.

The Miss ASEAN Friendship 2017 has been launched in Vietnam to search for the region's next beauty queen.

Many experts have voiced their opposition against the decision to hold the traditional dress competition of the upcoming Miss Grand International 2017 at Thien Duong Cave in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park.

Nguyễn Trần Duy Nhất of Việt Nam won his title at the first International Thai Martial Arts Games and Festival, which is currently on in Bangkok till March 22.

Vietnam’s top chess player Le Quang Liem walked away with US$13,000 as the overall winner of the Masters category (for participants rated above 2,100) at the 2017 HDBank International Chess Tournament in Ho Chi Minh City on March 17.

Rounder eyes, narrower faces, bigger breasts: a South Korean girlband is celebrating the country's obsession with surgically-enhanced beauty by going under the knife to praise the virtues of "Becoming Pretty".

'Vo ba' (The Third Wife), a Vietnamese film directed by Nguyen Phuong Anh and produced by Tran Bich Ngoc, won the post-production and Hong Kong to Cannes awards at the 15th Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum.

Vietnamese coach Hoàng Anh Tuấn hopes Vietam can make a big surprise at the coming FIFA U-20 World Cup, after the draw for event took place at the Suwon Artrium, South Korea yesterday.