CULTURE AND SPORT

Siestes Electronique (Electronic Naps), an experimental music concert to take place at Thong Nhat Park tomorrow, lets attendees enjoy music in a casual setting.

According to many, the three-day-long 18th Vietnam Film Festival may have be the most boring festival to date.

Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh was beaten 1-2 by Chong Wei Feng from Malaysia in the first match of Denmark Open 2013 on October 16.

A total of 26 countries and territories have confirmed their participation in the Hue Festival 2014 by sending art troupes to perform at the event.

The Department of Performing Arts has given a permit for Truong Thi May to compete at Miss Universe 2013 in Russia.

The organising board of the Vietnam Film Festival will be selecting films before allowing them to compete at the event, a board's member said.

Dragonfly Theatre Co and Sai Gon Sound System are set to stage Dangerous Liaisons, an English play based on the classic novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos De Laclos.

Vietnam Television received an original version of a 3D cartoon about General Vo Nguyen Giap for national broadcast during the late military hero’s state funeral.

Plan International and the Centre for Studies and Applied Sciences in Gender, Family, Women, and Adolescents opened their “My Life, My Dream” photo exhibition in Hanoi on October 11.

General Vo Nguyen Giap’s documents and photographs are on display in the National Library of Vietnam, at 31 Trang Thi street in Hanoi.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Tourism Promotion Centre, in coordination with the city’s Tourism Association and the Saigon International Film School, are running a Vietnamese street cuisine filmmaking competition from October 7 to December 7.

Thousands of books are on display at Autumn Book Fair 2013 which opened at the Vietnam Women’s Museum in Hanoi on October 10.

Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has received sponsorship from Japan’s Kawasaki group for his next ten tournaments.

Many cultural activities will be delayed as they were scheduled to take place during state funeral ceremonies for General Giap.

Two major Asian adaptations of classic Westerns have hit screens at the Busan International Film Festival, in a revival of a genre that drew some of its early inspiration from the cinema of the East.

Four Vietnamese athletes will arrive in Poland to take part in the 2013 World Weightlifting Championships on October 17.

A list of Vietnamese artists that have created the most valuable paintings sold internationally.

Vietnam claimed a convincing victory over Australia on October 7, successfully taking berth to the final round of the U19 Asian football tournament.

The first international mountain marathon in Vietnam took place in Sa Pa in the northern province of Lao Cai on October 6.