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The Vietnam Heritage Photo Awards 2017 on Monday (July 10) begins its sixth annual edition, with the aim of preserving Vietnam’s cultural values.

The skeleton of the last Java rhino in Vietnam is being displayed at the Cat Tien National Park in the southern province of Lam Dong.

The 3rd Vietnam International Fingerstyle Guitar Festival will be held in Hanoi and HCM City on July 18 & 19.

Eminent music teacher Nguyễn Vĩnh Bảo always hung a colloquial đàn ghi-ta phím lõm (sunken fret guitar, or lute with six strings), as a unique feature of Vietnamese music, among other traditional musical instruments.

The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will celebrate original contemporary music and dance works by Vietnamese composers and choreographers at a special performance at the city’s Opera House on July 9.

The Vietnam Culture Day was held in Vienna City Hall, Austria on July 3 with the engagement of 400 visitors.

Haiphong City still wants to continue holding Do Son Buffalo Fighting Festival which was temporarily halted after a local man was gored to death by his fighting buffalo.

The Voice of HCM City People (VOH) radio station plans to open a new opera house called Music One this month.

The famous Do Son Buffalo Fighting Festival 2017 has just been suspended after a local man was gored to death by his fighting buffalo.

Thai girl Nuttanan Naree has been named Miss Friendship of ASEAN this year.

Television and film piracy is one of the most talked about issues and poses a persistent problem for the creative industry. A number of copyright measures have been taken, but many shows appear online just hours after being broadcast.

40 photographs featuring the rich diversity of Vietnam’s ethnic cultures through the eyes of a French artist are being displayed at an outdoor exhibition in the central town of Hoi An.

The southern province of Bình Phước plans to ask the Government to grant intangible cultural heritage status to the traditional buffalo-fighting festival in Quản Hớn District.

A program entitled “Echoes of the Central Highlands” with a host of music and arts activities from the central highlands will be held from July 1 to 31 at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism.

Vietnamese model Nguyễn Minh Tú, 24, has officially been named one of the three finalists in Asia’s Next Top Model 2017.

Vietnamese- American singer Thanh Lan will stage a special show in HCM City for fans after 24 years of living away from her native land.