CULTURE AND SPORT

Grammy-winning soul singer Joss Stone tops a long list of artists from 10 different countries performing at the second Monsoon Music Festival (MMF) in Ha Noi next month.

The grounds of the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum were full of children and their parents displaying masks they had made.

Vietnam and Australia have both been selected to compete in Group D at the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship Finals Draw in Doha, Qatar.

Miss Universe Vietnam 2015 will win prizes worth up to VND10bn, the organizer announced.

The Da Nang-Vietnam team are currently in sixth place after a week and a half of racing in the 10th edition of the famous biennial Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.

France’s Olympique Lyonais club, runner-up at the French Championships 2014-2015, is eyeing to train and produce a team of skilled Vietnamese footballers for Ho Chi Minh City over the next 10 years.

American jazz saxophonist Kenny G will come to Vietnam for the first time with a one-night only concert at My Dinh National Convention Center, Hanoi at 8pm on October 13.

National men’s football team of Vietnam secured their first win at the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying round after overcoming Taipei 2-1 at the Taipei Municipal Stadium in Chinese Taiwan on September 8.

Ha Long city will host the Miss Tourism International 2015 beauty pageant from November 10 to 30.

Beneath Stone and Water is a short novel worth reading and reflected upon - A Thoughtful Reflection on Human-to-Human Relationships. Written by the young author Tien Vo who is a senior at a boarding Phillips Academy Andover.

The fifth annual “Europe meets Asia in contemporary dance” festival is set to get underway in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from September 30 to October 4.

Vietnamese female weightlifter VuongThi Huyen has bagged two gold medals at Asian Weightlifting Champs 2015 in Phuket, southern province of Thailand.

Three Vietnamese films will be presented at the British Film Institute's annual London Film Festival, on October 7-18.

The fifth Vietnam International Book Fair will take place in Hanoi's Thong Nhat Park from Thursday.

Vietnam missed the opportunity to reach their second AFF U-19 football title in history after suffering a bitter 0-6 loss to Thailand in the final of the 2015 Championship in Laos on September 4.

Vietnamese shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh won a silver medal in the men's 50m pistol category on September 3, at the World Cup Final Rifle/Pistol 2015 being held in Munich, Germany.

Viet Nam U19s will meet Thailand in the final match of the 2015 ASEAN Football Federation U19 Youth Championship after defeating hosts Laos 4-0 in their semi-final on September 2.

The ninth Tourism, Sports and Culture Festival 2015 of ethnic groups in the northeast region will take place in Bac Kan province from September 10-12.

Le Vu Lan (Filial Piety ceremony, or Ghost festival) may soon be recognised as a national festival of Vietnamese culture. The Centre for Religious Cultural Heritage Preservation has submitted the festival to the State for recognising.