CULTURE AND SPORT

Many hotels in Quy Nhon City in the southern central province of Binh Dinh have announced attractive discounts to attract tourists ahead of popular events scheduled to be held soon in the city.

Over 2,200 runners from 40 countries and territories will participate in the Vietnam Ultra Marathon which will take place in Mai Chau, the northern province of Hoa Binh, on March 23.

Compositions by famous Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) will be presented by the orchestra of the Royal Opera of Versailles during a concert scheduled to take place next month at the Ho Guom Opera in Hanoi.

For the first time in Vietnam, classical music has been taken out of theatres and auditoriums to make it easier for the public to access at a classical music festival held in Da Lat city.

Boxer Vo Thi Kim Anh has secured a ticket to Paris 2024 Olympics, the fifth for Vietnam.

"Oppenheimer" had a glittering night at the Oscars but in Hiroshima, devastated by the first nuclear bomb in 1945, the film about the weapon's creator is harder to stomach.

More than 100 artists are performing at the Vietnam Classical Music Festival which opened in the UNESCO Creative Music City of Da Lat, the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on March 10.

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.