CULTURE AND SPORT

Over 5,000 people clad in "Ao dai" (Vietnamese traditional gown) joined a parade in Ho Chi Minh City on March 8 as part of the city’s ongoing 10th Ao Dai Festival.

Several Vietnamese and international artists are currently displaying their artworks at a street art exhibition taking place at the Da Nang Fine Arts Museum.

Vietnam boasts a lot of advantages to develop sports tourism and is taking measures to promote this type of tourism - one of the fastest growing segments in the industry, with an estimated value of about 800 billion USD globally.

Vietnamese movie “A Fragile Flower” (Đóa hoa mong manh) directed by Mai Thu Huyen won the Best Female Director Feature Film award at the World Film Festival in Cannes in France.

The nation’s top female badminton player Nguyen Thuy Linh successfully beat former world No. 1 Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand to make the semifinals of the ongoing German Open.

The ninth Vietnam-Japan Festival is scheduled is set to take place from March 9 t 10 at September 23 Park in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Quy Nhon International Outdoor Lifestyle Fair (Q-Fair 2024) is set to be held in the southern central coastal province of Binh Dinh from 9-12 March.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development and the spouses of heads of mission collaborated today on a mini-workshop exploring the diverse cuisine of Vietnam's rural and ethnic minority communities.

An international jazz festival is scheduled to take place in Nha Trang city in the southcentral coastal province of Khanh Hoa from April 27 to May 1, with the event being the first of its kind in the region.

Huynh Nguyen Mai Phuong, the Vietnamese representative at Miss World 2023, is anticipated to be named as the winner of the upcoming beauty pageant, according to predictions made by beauty website Pageanthology.

Vietnamese tennis ace Ly Hoang Nam will be back in the world’s top 500 of the upcoming Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) men’s singles rankings.

The World Championship Three-Cushion 2024 is scheduled to take place in Phan Thiet city, south Vietnam, this September, announced the Vietnam Billiards & Snooker Federation.

The first edition of the Mr World Vietnam 2024 male pageant has debuted with the goal of seeking candidates who can go on to represent Vietnam at future international contests.

Chief coach of the Vietnam national football team Philippe Troussier is scheduled to return to Hanoi on February 21 to prepare for two clashes between Vietnam and Indonesia as part of the second qualifying round of the 2026 FIFA

The Vietnamese sailing team finished in fifth place in the 2023-2024 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race after docking at Ha Long International Cruise Port in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh at 10:35 a.m. on February 19.

The Vietnamese puppet art programme "Tray Hoi Mua Xuan" (Spring Celebration) is taking place in Sunset Town, Phu Quoc, aiming to showcase Vietnam's intangible cultural heritage to both domestic and foreign tourists.

Vietnam will host at least four chess competitions of the Hanoi International Chess Series in 2024, which will deliver world point rankings for successful masters.

Bai Dinh Pagoda in the northern province of Ninh Binh, the largest in Vietnam, has welcomed a large number of visitors on the first days of the Lunar New Year.

Vietnamese representative Huynh Nguyen Mai Phuong is set to crack the Top 20 of the 71st edition of Miss World, according to famous beauty website Crown Talk.