CULTURE AND SPORT

Shanghai-based Uma Wang on Saturday offered a collection that drew deeply on traditional patterns of her native China and the style of mediaeval Italian courtesans at Milan Fashion Week.

Despite the inclement rainy weather, thousands of people are flockingto Hanoi’s PhucTho stadium to attend a buffalo fighting festival – the first of its kind in the capital city.

While a number of Vietnamese television channels are willing to pay a high fees for the broadcast rights of several international football leagues, few pay attention to the V-League.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has kicked off a national beauty contest in search of Miss Ocean, who will be the face of its marine environment protection projects.

Real Madrid Foundation academy project manager Manuel Pareno Rogriguez is visiting Vietnam to examine the possibility of establishing a football academy in Hanoi.

VietsovPetro has decided to dissolve its women's volleyball team following problems around the team merger with the Saigon-Thai Binh Duong Beer Team.

A 32-episode television film on the legendary Vietnamese intelligence agent Pham Xuan An will be shot soon in both the US and Vietnam.

The Hanoi-based Tuoi Tre Theatre has decided to send several of their best artists to produce plays in HCM City in hopes of attracting a bigger audience there.

The incoming head of the V-League organizing board, Tanaka Koji, met with representatives of the Vietnam Professional Football Company in Hanoi on February 17.

The VTV6 channel of Vietnam Television Station will broadcast a Vietnamese edition of Star Academy - a highly successful television talent show based on the Spanish format produced by Endemol.

The key player of Vietsovpetro female volleyball team has sent a moving letter to the company’s management board to seek their help for difficulties facing the members of their team.

Musician and singer Thanh Bui has just had an exchange to introduce the musical culture and traditional musical instruments of Vietnam to students on the cruise ship MV Explorer of the US.

Vietnam will face Sri Lanka in the relegation battle to the next-lower group after losing 2-3 to Pakistan in the Davis Cup's qualifier in Group II Asia/Oceania zone.

China's "Black Coal, Thin Ice" by Diao Yinan about a washed up ex-cop investigating a series of grisly murders won the Berlin film festival's Golden Bear top prize Saturday.

President Truong Tan Sang’s February 15 New Year visit to Dong Mo’s Culture Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups on the outskirts of Hanoi coincided with spring festival celebrations.

A photobook published by the HCM City General Publishing House released last week depicts the lives of soldiers and people who live and work on the Truong Sa (Spratly Islands) archipelago.

One of the biggest spring festivals of Vietnam, the Tran Temple festival, opened last night in the northern Thai Binh province.

The Vietnamese futsal (indoor football) team's new coach, Bruno Formoso, said he was optimistic about the future and that Vietnam could enter the top four in Asia in the next three years

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said on February 11 that preservation of traditional music forms assumes greater importance as the country deepens its international integration.