CULTURE AND SPORT

Whether the paintings at the Paintings Returned from Europe in HCM City are original or not remain unclear as the exhibition came to an end while investigation is on-going.

A dramatically choreographed ‘artistic’ wedding between famous MC Thanh Bach and the owner of Thuy Nga Productions has been criticised as a crass PR opportunity.

The Hanoi People’s Committee recently issued a plan to celebrate the Ao Dai Festival at the Thang Long-Hanoi Preservation Centre from October 14 to 16.

Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts announced that paintings at the Paintings Returned from Europe Exhibition will be further researched after accusations that they have been wrongly attributed.

Musical project Look at the World, which aims to raise funds for the programme Thien Nhan and Friends will be organised at Hanoi Opera House on July 20.

The Vietnam International Fingerstyle Guitar Festival 2016 will take place at 8pm at the Youth Theater in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music on July 19 and 20 respectively.

Iconic characteristics of Japanese culture, including Mount Fuji, Hello Kitty, ninjas, and Geishas, are being featured at the Feel Japan Festival that opened in Ho Chi Minh City on July 16.

Truong Thanh Nhan won the first gold medal for Vietnam at the ongoing ASEAN University Games in Singapore on July 14.

Việt Nam dropped six places in FIFA’s July ranking which was released this week.

Painter Nguyen Thanh Chuong has said a painting he completed in 1970 is currently on display under the name of Ta Ty dated back to 1952 at an exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Vietnam Professional Football Company intendeds another fact-finding ‘study-trip’ to Europe as part of research to improve the Vietnamese football environment, despite the scant results of previous trips.

The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will perform operatic extracts by well-known composers at the HCM City Opera House on July 29.

Audience and experts have expressed doubts over the authenticity of the paintings that are on display at Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts, suggesting most of them are fakes.

The Vietnam Photography Association has just revoked the first prize of a Hanoi photo contest after finding the work was photoshopped.

Miss Vietnam 2014 Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen has been widely criticised after a video showed her smoking in a coffee shop was posted online.

The Yonex-Sunrise Vietnam Open 2016, commencing next week, might be the last international event in which national number one badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh will play on the home ground.

Short video clips detailing the life of “Vietnam’s Tarzan”, a man who grew up in the jungle after his father fled American bombs, will soon be released on the travel website Docastaway.

The UN's cultural agency met on Sunday (Jul 10) in Istanbul to consider adding over two dozen new sites to its prestigious global heritage list, and called for a strong global response to the threats posed by extremism.

A film screening room with 12 seats that recline into beds, blankets and fluffy pillows has just been opened at a cinema in HCM City, the first of its kind in Vietnam.