CULTURE AND SPORT

Lang Toi Circus, a highly-regarded performance troupe which has played many foreign stages, faces difficulties in attracting audiences at home.

A rare book about An Nam was given to the Hue Royal Antiques Museum in the central province of Thua Thien Hue yesterday by an overseas Vietnamese couple, Bui Thi Cam Ha and Le Thai.

Promising young cyclist Huynh Thanh Tung will start training at the World Cycling Centre in Switzerland from next week.

The wide spread of Chinatown film and rampant sales of pirated discs of this cut have gone a long way to proving the ineffectiveness of the ban on the film.

A Vietnamese-Japanese girl, Hirao Yuka, has won the Miss Vietnam Global Beauty Pageant which was held in US's California.

Tran Manh Dung scored for Vietnam in their 7-1 loss to Arsenal at the My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi yesterday.

More than VND 6.5 trillion from the State budget will be spent in developing the cinema industry nationwide from now to 2020, according to the Department of Cinematography.

About 30,000 Vietnamese spectators saw with their own eye Arsenal FC players do a warm-up exercise in Hanoi on July 16, one day ahead of their friendly match against Vietnamese players.

The vice-captain of the Vietnamese National Football Team said that the team will try their best in the friendly match against Arsenal today.

Authorities in Phu Tho province have proposed a project worth USD9.31 million to preserve hat Xoan or Xoan singing.

Vietnamese girls will have a chance to show off their beauty, intelligence and talent at the “Charming Vietnam” pageant which starts this month.

Hundreds of Vietnamese football fans came to Noi Bai Airport and waited many hours to welcome their Arsenal team idols.

Vietnam's National Museum of Nature is building a new exhibition hall dedicated to the evolution of living things, which will help it become the leading museum of its kind in Vietnam.

Vietnamese badminton player, Nguyen Tien Minh triumphed over his Chinese rival, Wing Ki Wong 2-1 in the US Open Prix Gold’s final clash on July 14, winning the championship title.

Vietnamese badminton player, Nguyen Tien Minh defeated Japanese rival Kento Momota 2-0 in the semi-finals of the US Open Prix Gold 2013 on July 13.

The US Motion Picture Association has asked the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to deal with three websites that violated US copyright regulations.

The first Vietnam-ASEAN UNESCO Heritage Festival 2013 will be held in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong from December 27-31.

The HCMC Tax Department made public the tax arrears from five famous artists, which amounted to VND1.3 billion.

Vietnam's top badminton Nguyen Tien Minh breezed through to the quarter-final round of the Yonex OCBC US Open GPG badminton tournament on July 11 in California.