Entertainment

Fashion designer Dang Thi Minh Hanh has been selected for the ASEAN Selections 2016 Award in Thailand which preserves and promote folk arts and trades.

The 12th Ho Chi Minh City International Travel Expo 2016 (ITE-HCMC 2016) is scheduled to be held in the southern city from September 8-10, according to the municipal Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Miss Mekong Delta Vietnam 2015, Nguyen Thi Le Nam Em, has just been selected to represent Vietnam at the Miss Earth 2016 pageant.

The Danang-Vietnam team were greeted by thousands of spectators along the banks of London’s Thames River as they finished seventh at the 10th edition of the Clipper Round World Yacht Race on Saturday, after eleven months of sailing on

The drama Dạ Cổ Hoài Lang (Night Drumbeats Cause Longing for Absent Husband), a production by talented scriptwriter Thanh Hoàng, will be restaged in a new version in the US.

A photo exhibition entitled ‘Light from the Heart’ is scheduled to take place in Hanoi from August 8-15 to raise funds for disadvantaged children.

Toyota Motor Vietnam (TMV) in cooperation with the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) have announced the Toyota Concert Tour 2016 with the theme of Russian classical music.

The first Tài Tử Music Festival for Children, to be held at HCM City’s Labour Cultural House next week, will include participants under 15 years old performing songs and instrumental pieces.

Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay and Quang Binh Province are showcased in the trailer for the Hollywood blockbuster Kong: Skull Island.

Top Vietnamese and foreign singers will spark the central city of Đà Nẵng during Cocofest on August 26-27.

The Vietnam Cinema Department has announced that online registration is now open for media, industry and students wishing to participate in the fourth edition of the Hanoi International Film Festival (Haniff).

Most Vietnamese singers still ignore being paid copyright fees from music downloading websites.

Artists introduce works featuring the life of people during battle of Quang Tri 1972 at a sculpture workshop in the central province of Quang Tri.

Whether the paintings at the Paintings Returned from Europe in HCM City are original or not remain unclear as the exhibition came to an end while investigation is on-going.

A dramatically choreographed ‘artistic’ wedding between famous MC Thanh Bach and the owner of Thuy Nga Productions has been criticised as a crass PR opportunity.

The Hanoi People’s Committee recently issued a plan to celebrate the Ao Dai Festival at the Thang Long-Hanoi Preservation Centre from October 14 to 16.

Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts announced that paintings at the Paintings Returned from Europe Exhibition will be further researched after accusations that they have been wrongly attributed.

Musical project Look at the World, which aims to raise funds for the programme Thien Nhan and Friends will be organised at Hanoi Opera House on July 20.