CULTURE AND SPORT

Leading Vietnamese and foreign performers will gather at the Monsoon Music Festival, the first-ever "Made in Vietnam" international music festival.

Vietnam’s international GM Le Quang Liem (Elo 2706) has maintained his winning streak after six rounds, lifting the trophy of the Webster University – Spice Rapid Invitational in the US.

Cong Phuong’s late goal earned Vietnam three points in their opening match against U19 Australia of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Nuti Food U19 Cup taking place in Hanoi on September 5.

Thousands of photographers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are expected to attend Canon PhotoMarathon – an annual Quick Photo Composing Competition –organized by Canon Marketing Vietnam Limited Company.

The Vietnamese film “Lua Phat” (Once Upon A Time in Vietnam) will be screened at the third ASEAN Film Festival scheduled to take place in Prague, the Czech Republic from September 9-13.

The glitzy and glamorous Pham Thuy Vy Victoria was crowned Miss Vietnam Globe International 2014 at the finals competition held in Atlantic City, the US recently.

Over 600 ceramic antiques are on display at a two-month exhibition which opened at the beginning of September in the southern province of An Giang.

Dominant performance and straight-set win sent top Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh to the third round of the Yonex Sunrise Vietnam GP Open.

The U19 Australian team arrived in Hanoi on September in preparation for the Nutifood Cup opening match with U19 Vietnam on September 5.

The Vietnam U-19 football team will challenge themselves at the 2014 Southeast Asian (SEA) U-19 Championship, hosted in Vietnam from September 5-13, which is considered a perfect warm-up for the team ahead of their Asian U-19 finals campaign.

Ho Chi Minh City will hold a 15-minute firework show on the night of September 2 to mark the 69th anniversary of Vietnamese National Day.

Hanoi is set to light up the sky by a fireworks display at 31 venues throughout the capital city on October 10 to mark its 60th liberation anniversary.

More than 600 athletes from nearly 30 countries and territories took part in an international marathon competition in the central city of Danang on August 31.

Twenty drivers gathered their specially modified stock cars at the starting line of the country’s largest off-road race, which kicked off the holiday week-end on Aug 30 and runs until Sep 2, in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong.

A film by 32-year-old Vietnamese director Nguyen Hoang Diep entitled “Dap canh giu khong trung” (Flapping in the middle of Nowhere) is poised to compete at the 39th Toronto International Film Festival taking place from September 9-14.

Circus artists from the Vietnam Circus Federation will debut a special show dedicated to children on August 30.

The organiser of the two liveshows of singer Khanh Ly has agreed to pay music copyright fees of VND250 million after ministerial authorities got involved.

The Yonex Sunrise Vietnam Open 2014 is set to get underway in Ho Chi Minh City on September 1, the organizing board announced on August 27.

Many Vietnamese, including celebrities, have been taking on the Ice Bucket Challenge to help raise awareness and funds to fight amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS.