CULTURE AND SPORT

Female judo martial artist Van Ngoc Tu will be the first Vietnamese athlete to compete at the London 2012 Olympics, the head of the country’s sporting delegation.

All eyes turn to London on Friday for the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics.

Stars of sport and screen gathered in London to honour legendary heavyweight boxer and Olympic champion Muhammad Ali as the countdown to the 2012 Games neared its finale.

Most Vietnamese cinemas prefer presenting foreign films to attract young people who accounted for two thirds of total cinema goers over the past decade.

HCMC's well-known Rong Vang (Golden Dragon) Water Puppetry Troupe will take part in the Kijimuna Festa 2012 in Japan from July 28 to August 6.

Symphonies for piano by world-famous composer Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov will be performed by Guigla Katsarava in Hanoi next month.

Show promoters are blacklisting many traditional music singers, accusing them of being too picky and greedy.

Vietnamese sole Olympic badminton representative Nguyen Tien Minh will compete in group D following a draw held yesterday in London.

Warner Bros said "The Dark Knight Rises" took in $160.8 million at U.S. and Canadian box offices over the weekend.

Thousands of VIPs including some 120 national leaders have jet into London for Friday's Olympic opening ceremony.

Top Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has been seeded No.10 at the London 2012 Olympics.

While state-owned studios vacillate over a long duration in making a movie, private producers are much more aggressive.

Bradley Wiggins has been crowned Britain's first Tour de France champion, becoming an instant sporting hero at home just ahead of the London Olympics- in which he hopes to star again.

A photo exhibition named “Dong Loc, Mother and Hometown”, has been opened in Ha Tinh Province.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism held a workshop on Thursday to discuss a three-year master plan to improve State management of festivals.

A series of Vietnamese-made cartoons entitled “Say Hi to Pencil” has been aired on Ho Chi Minh City Television at 6.20pm on every Monday and Thursday.

Although costly, water-skiing on Saigon River has become a favourite pastime among a number of young people in HCM City.

Former Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci and ex-basketball star John Amaechi will carry the Olympic flame as it begins a seven-day tour of London on Saturday.

The Vietnamese sports delegation has left the country for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.