Entertainment

The cherry blossom season in Japan kicks off boozy parties across the country and draws tourists from far and wide, but the annual coming-of-spring ritual isn't official until inspectors like Hisato Nishii sign off on it.

The General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army on March 31 launched a drive to encourage the creation of arts and literature works on the solidarity in combat of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

Three Vietnamese films will be screened at the 70th annual Cannes Film Festival, to be held from May 17 to 28.

The second National Don Ca Tai Tu Festival, themed “Southern Don Ca Tai Tu—Preservation and Development” will be held from April 8-12 in Binh Duong Province.

Three foreign film projects in Vietnam have been approved by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism this year.

The Australian Embassy and Consul-General in Vietnam are hosting the second annual Taste of Australia promotion during the month of April 2017.

The International Culinary and Music Festival - Food Fest 2017 will take place for the first time in Hanoi from April 7-9.

Painting auctions and the art trade in general are not new to Vietnam and are definitely not something unfamiliar to the world. But a professional auction session at the Chon Auction House attracting many painting collectors and tycoons was

Chefs from many countries attended the second Hoi An International Food Festival which opened at the An Hoi Sculpture Park Wednesday.

The Miss ASEAN Friendship 2017 has been launched in Vietnam to search for the region's next beauty queen.

Many experts have voiced their opposition against the decision to hold the traditional dress competition of the upcoming Miss Grand International 2017 at Thien Duong Cave in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park.

Rounder eyes, narrower faces, bigger breasts: a South Korean girlband is celebrating the country's obsession with surgically-enhanced beauty by going under the knife to praise the virtues of "Becoming Pretty".

'Vo ba' (The Third Wife), a Vietnamese film directed by Nguyen Phuong Anh and produced by Tran Bich Ngoc, won the post-production and Hong Kong to Cannes awards at the 15th Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum.

The Gout de France/Good France 2017, a global event on the French gastronomy, in Vietnam will bring together chefs from 24 restaurants in Hanoi, Hoi An, Da Nang, Hue and Ho Chi Minh City on March 21.

The traditional dress competition of the upcoming Miss Grand International 2017 will be held at Thien Duong Cave in Quang Binh Province.

Director of the blockbuster film Kong: Skull Island Jordan Vogt-Roberts said he is honoured to be Vietnam’s tourism ambassador and will try his best to help promote Vietnamese tourism.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has proposed the Hanoi authorities to construct a 3-dimensional model from the blockbuster film Kong: Skull Island near Hoan Kiem Lake.