CULTURE AND SPORT

Song writers in Vietnam are opposing a circular issued by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as it may enable show organisers to use their works for free.

Home to the largest number of Khmer people in the Mekong Delta, Soc Trang province has recently been celebrating the traditional Chol Chnam Thmay New Year festival.

Famous actresses Angela Phuong Trinh and Thanh Thuy, who are main casts of the Vietnamese movie “Taxi, Em Ten Gi?” (Taxi, what’s your name?), have been invited to the Cannes Film Festival, which will take place in May in France.

The first-ever auto-racing circus to meet international standards will open soon in the southern province of Long An.

The Vietnam Writers' Association has decided to translate the war novel 'Bien Ban ChienTranh 1-2-3-4.75' (War Minutes January-April, 1975) written by veteran journalist Tran Mai Hanh into English.

A contemporary arts exhibition is being held at the launch of a new contemporary arts centre, The Factory, in HCM City.

The 28th Ho Chi Minh City Television Cycling Tournament – Ton Dong A Cup 2016 kicked off its first stage in Hanoi.

Vice chairman of VNPayTV, Le Dinh Cuong, spoke with Dan Tri about negotiations over the English football Premier League’s broadcasting rights.

Powerful athletes will race in the VNG Ironman 70.3 Vietnam in the coastal central city on May 8.

Fashion designer Kelly Bui has announced she will attend the next instalment of Shanghai Fashion Week, Southern China.

The YDA Club, a cinema club dedicated to Vietnamese movies in Paris’ District 5, will present three short movies by Vietnamese independent filmmakers on April 16.

Singer Thu Minh said she was preparing to file a case against the investor of the Leman Luxury Apartments in HCM City for failing to complete its project on time.

Vietnamese people in France are the main characters in 130 photos featured in an exhibition opened on Ho Chi Minh City’s Book Street (Nguyen Van Binh street).

Vietnam’s best fashion designers and their international counterparts will show their collections in the third Vietnam International Fashion Week.

The Southeast Asian Games will once again return to Hanoi in 2021, after an 18-year long hiatus, following formal acceptance of the offer to host the games by the Hanoi Municipal People’s Committee.

A traditional ceremony commemorating sailors of Hoang Sa (Paracel) Flotilla, took place in An Vinh communal temple, Ly Son island district, central Quang Ngai province.

Twenty-seven artists and technicians from Opera Australia will delight music lovers in Hanoi with the famous opera La Bohème to be held at the Hanoi Opera House on April 10.

Several film-makers in Vietnam have raised doubts over the VND 700 billion in revenue that was claimed to have been earned by local films in 2015.

Violist Nguyet Thu and her Apaixonado String Quartet band will hold a concert for children with autism on April 2 at the Vietnam National Academy of Music’s Grand Concert Hall.