CULTURE AND SPORT

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism recently issued a circular on off-road car racing in Vietnam, including special regulations for the sport.

Over 300 documents, images and artifacts on the distinctive Cong Chieng (gong culture) of Vietnam's Central Highlands are currently on display at an exhibition that opened yesterday at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Dak Lak.

Despite the VFF claiming it wants to employ a local coach for the national team, they may be forced to look overseas for help as several domestic candidates seem reluctant to take over the vacancy left by Toshiya Miura.

The Cay Neu (Neu pole) erecting ceremony, a traditional activity in the run up to the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, was re-enacted at the Hue Imperial Citadel, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, on February 1.

The Binh Duong International Women's Cycling Tournament – Biwase Cup 2016 – is scheduled to kick off in the southern province of Binh Duong on March 8.

A buffalo fighting festival in Phuc Tho District has been cancelled this year because of controversy over concern it promotes cruelty to animals.

A spring festival kicked off at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel in Hanoi as part of the activities to celebrate the Lunar New Year (Tet) and the 86th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Seven million Vietnamese are expected to participate in Olympic Run Day for Public Health 2016, which will begin across the country simultaneously at 7 am on March 26.

Toshiya Miura has been dismissed as the coach of the Vietnamese national football team on January 28.

The fourth Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF) is set to take place in five days of the fourth quarter.

Preparation for the newest Legendary Pictures King Kong sequel is underway so that the shooting can start in February.

"Back to Origins" is the theme of this year's Tet calligraphy exhibition at the Temple of Literature from February 2-15.

Ten talented artists in different fields of movie, music and theatre were honoured at the annual Mai Vang Awards ceremony at the HCM City Opera House.

The technical crew for Legendary Pictures arrived in Ninh Binh province on January 20 to prepare for the company's new film, Kong: Skull Island or Titan, the upcoming King Kong prequel.

A Vietnam-Asia silk festival set to take place on March 28-29 will be a major cultural highlight of myriad of events celebrating the 41st anniversary of Hoi An City.

Dinner In The Sky – a slightly bizarre concept that has caught on in 45 countries in which 22 guests are hoisted in the air along with the banquet table and their chairs by a crane to dine 60

Tet Art 2016, the biggest Vietnamese and foreign art fair of the year, will kick off on January 21 in Hanoi.

The country's biggest art and handicraft products fair has just been opened in Hanoi for three weeks.

Thanh Pho Khac (Another City), by young director Pham Ngoc Lan, will compete at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.