CULTURE AND SPORT

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.

Vietnam Television has officially sued websites, including Youtube, which published the Kitchen Gods 2014 show without permission.

Several festivals held by various ethnic groups will be celebrated at the Culture Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups in Hanoi this month.

Thousands of tourists and Buddhist dignitaries flocked to the Yen Tu Pagoda in Quang Ninh province to join the Spring Festival, which officially opened on February 9, the tenth day of the first lunar month.

The northern border province of Quang Ninh will host the annual Japanese cherry blossom festival to promote cultural exchange between Vietnamese and Japanese localities.

The opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics got off to a shaky start in Sochi on Friday when an illuminated snowflake that was supposed to transform into the fifth glowing white Olympic ring failed to do so.

An exhibition of Vietnamese folk paintings has attracted a large number of visitors, giving hope to some for a revival of the two traditional art forms, Hang Trong and Dong Ho.

A festival to commemorate the nation’s legendary mother Au Co began in Ha Hoa district, the northern midland province of Phu Tho on February 6, the seventh day of the Lunar New Year.