CULTURE AND SPORT

Vietnamese tennis player Ly Hoang Nam is competing at the Eddie Herr Championships for young players, which opened in the US on December 2.

One of China's top movie directors has admitted having three children with his current wife, according to a studio media posting, after months of speculation he broke the country's controversial family planning laws several times.

Hanoi hosted an awards ceremony, on December 1, to honour 48 outstanding images chosen by the seventh International Artistic Photo Competition. The competition received 15,360 entries from 1,430 contestants from 51 countries and territories.

A talk on one of Vietnam’s top painters in the 20th century, To Ngoc Van (1906-1954), who left over a strong imprint with works and artistic ideas of deep influence on the Vietnamese fine arts, will be held at

Cinema film producers have not been able to produce any new films in recent years, as they have yet to get state funding due to the lack of a circular on cinema film auction.

Two hundred athletes representing 20 countries and territories are competing at the 2013 Ho Chi Minh City Open International X Games on November 29-30.

Myanmar is "100 percent" ready for the Southeast Asian Games, a senior official said Friday, as the clock ticked down to the biggest sports event in the nation's troubled history.

Vietnam will have the chance to vie for a World Cup 2015 berth following a draw of the AFC Women’s Asian Cup 2014 in HCM City on November 29.

The photo contest “I Love My City, My People”, sponsored by the French Consulate General in HCM City, is now accepting entries, hoping to encourage Vietnamese artistic expressions of local love for the homeland.

Vietnam’s best male badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has earned 8th place in the World Badminton Federation’s (WBF) latest rankings.

Vietnamese animated film studios have been struggling to find their audience after the government decided to stop granting them subsidies.

Phan Nhu Thao has outclassed other Vietnamese candidates to represent the country at Asia’s Next Top Model 2013.

The Vietnam Professional Football Company said that local football clubs will continue to face serious financial difficulties over the next two years.

He may have amassed a collection of international titles, but Vietnam's top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh is still missing a men's singles gold from the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games.

The capital city will host its first ever experimental music festival from November 30 to December 8.

Miss International Beauty 2009, Vu Hoang Diep, faced public criticism for her "shocking" jeans, after the images were captured by Singaporean newspapers.

Pop diva Taylor Swift was named Artist of the Year at the American Music Awards (AMA), while other big winners included British boy band One Direction and crooner Justin Timberlake.

Hue opens two exhibitions that offer free entrance to visitors, showing photos of a German artist and memorials from friends of a Vietnamese well-known late song composer Trinh Cong Son.

A new genre of Vietnamese films has appeared on local television channels with very romantic titles, hoping to attract audiences.