CULTURE AND SPORT

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.

The Gout de France/Good France 2017, a global event on the French gastronomy, in Vietnam will bring together chefs from 24 restaurants in Hanoi, Hoi An, Da Nang, Hue and Ho Chi Minh City on March 21.

The traditional dress competition of the upcoming Miss Grand International 2017 will be held at Thien Duong Cave in Quang Binh Province.

Director of the blockbuster film Kong: Skull Island Jordan Vogt-Roberts said he is honoured to be Vietnam’s tourism ambassador and will try his best to help promote Vietnamese tourism.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has proposed the Hanoi authorities to construct a 3-dimensional model from the blockbuster film Kong: Skull Island near Hoan Kiem Lake.

The new giant-ape themed blockbuster film Kong: Skull Island will be screened free in Ninh Binh and Quang Binh provinces which featured in the film’s locations.

As many as 305 badminton players from sixteen countries are expected to compete in the Ciputra Hanoi-Yonex Sunrise Vietnam International Challenge 2017, according to the organisers.

The decision in 1995 to open the cinema industry to foreigners started a new chapter in the Vietnamese movie theatre segment.

Việt Nam’s basketball team Saigon Heat are confident of facing defending champions Westports Dragons Malaysia at the ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) today at 5pm at CIS Arena in HCM City.

Well-known Malaysian tattoo artist Alvin Chong will attend Vietnam Tattoo Convention which will be held in HCM City on March 11 and 12.

German pianist Boris Schönleber will perform best pieces by the German composers Richard Wagner, Robert Schumann and Austrian Hugo Wolf at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi on March 12.

Jordan Charles Vogt-Roberts, director of the latest Hollywood blockbuster “Kong: Skull Island” has been appointed as tourism ambassador of Vietnam in the 2017-2020 tenure.

The premiere of the new giant-ape themed blockbuster film Kong: Skull Island in HCM City on Thursday went up in flames, frightening cinemagoers.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has issued the certificate to Gala Viet Event Tour Corporation allowing it to host the Miss ASEAN Friendship 2017 in the coastal province of Phu Yen Province.

Japanese professor Masaaki Shimizu has been presented with the 2017 Balaban Award by the US-based Vietnamese Nom Preservation Foundation (VNPF) for his contributions to preserving Vietnam’s ancient script.