CULTURE AND SPORT

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.

Top Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh climbed seven places to 36th position with 35,050 points in the latest world rankings announced by the Badminton World Federation.

Gold books and other royal gold objects of the Nguyen Dynasty are on display at the Vietnam National Museum of History in Hanoi from March 31.

A special art programme themed ‘Sac 16’ (Beauty 16) will be held on April 2 on Dao Duy Tu Street, one of Hanoi’s Old Quarter pedestrian streets.

A clip-making contest on promoting the rights and interests of the LGBT community in Vietnam opened for submissions.

The door to the 2018 World Cup officially closed on Vietnam after they succumbed to a 0-1 defeat against Iraq in their last Group F clash of the second World Cup qualifying round, held on neutral ground in Tehran,

The final night of the Miss Sea Vietnam 2016 pageant will be held on May 21 in the Tuan Chau island tourism complex in the city of Ha Long.

Well-known comedian Minh Beo, real name Hong Quang Minh, has been arrested in the US state of California on suspicion of child sexual assault.

Movies made by domestic and international filmmakers will be featured at the fourth Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF) to be held from November 1 to 5, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

“Nhin | Picturing Autism Vietnam”, a photo exhibition by US photographer Debbie Rasiel, has opened in Hanoi.

A ceremony to launch the Olympic Run Day for Public Health 2016 was jointly held by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Hanoi People’s Committee and the Vietnam Olympic Committee on March 26.

Australian-British string quartet Bond is returning to Vietnam to perform with some famous local singers in Hanoi.

Two goals each by Nguyen Cong Vinh and Nguyen Van Toan helped Vietnam to secure their first international win under coach Nguyen Huu Thang over Chinese Taipei in the second round of the 2018 World Cup qualification’s Asian category.

Vietnamese and foreign belly dancers will participate in the fourth Vietnam Unlimited Belly Dance Competition in July in Hanoi.