CULTURE AND SPORT

Grammy-winning pop legend Whitney Houston died from accidental drowning in her hotel bathtub after taking cocaine which could have triggered a heart attack, coroners said.

Vietnam’s Next Top Model 2011’s runner-up Nguyen Thi Tra My has just become the third runner-up at the 6th annual Top Model Worldwide modeling contest in London.

Singer Minh Hang’s performance at the opening of the Dancing with the Stars 2012 used a portion of a recording by another singer without prior permission.

A team of traditional opera artists recently delighted a French audience with a classical cheo play during the Festival of Imagination held in Paris's House of World Cultures.

This movie will be launched in Vietnam on April 13, one month earlier than the release date in North America, on May 18.

Vietnamese martial artists secured second place at a Muay Thai World Championship, which concluded in Bangkok.

The organisers of the 2012 Sao Mai singing contest vow to ban contestants from wearing skimpy clothing and accessories.

The Australian Consulate-General in HCM City announced a special performance featuring one of Australia’s leading indigenous dance groups “Descendance” at the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Cultural House.

Swimming talent Hoang Quy Phuoc has been accused as an arrogant superstar, and the main cause for all of the troubles the Vietnamese swimming squad has been facing in the US.

The opening of Dancing With the Stars 2012 contest took place at Hanoi’s Quan Ngua Sport Centre on the evening of March 18.

While “Mui co chay” predictably won Best Picture, action film “Long Ruoi” reaped four awards and “Lost in Paradise” missed all the important ones was not a pleasant surprise for many cinema observers.

The Vietnam Football Federation has turned down the proposal to hire international referees to work in the V-League.

Binh Thuan province will host the first Vietnam balloon festival scheduled to take place from April 26 to May 1, said the director of the provincial department of culture, sports and tourism.

John Isner pulled off the biggest upset of his career at the BNP Paribas Open on Saturday before Roger Federer imperiously outplayed long-time rival Rafa Nadal in the other semi-final.

The Union of European Football Associations has officially granted rights to Vietnam Television to broadcast the final rounds EURO 2012 in Vietnam.

New York art dealers might need to pull out marker pens and add zeros to their price tags during Asia Week sales starting this week in auction houses and galleries across the city.

Although Vietnamese young people are showing a great interest in comics, they seem to have shunned domestic ones.

Large numbers of Vietnamese young people flocked to the Vietnam – Korea Music Festival to lively watch their idols.

China dominates the global art and antiques market as of last year, said a report ahead of the launch of the European Fine Art Fair.