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A great song should lift your heart, warm your soul and make you feel good. Aware of this fact, artists have joined hands to organise musical performances at hospitals.

Unlike the common images of a bustling daytime Hanoi, more peaceful nighttime images of the capital city by French photographer Sebastien Laval have been on display.

A music concert in commemoration of the late musician Trinh Cong Son will take place at the Crescent Lake in Phu My Hung town in District 7, HCMC on April 22.

The Carnaval Ha Long 2016 is slated to take place on April 30 at the October 30 Square in Ha Long city, the northern province of Quang Ninh, according to the municipal authorities.

Nearly a hundred photos capturing the miserable lives of Indochinese workers in the French Toulouse Region during world wars in 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 are being exhibited in Toulouse city, from April 2-23.

Song writers in Vietnam are opposing a circular issued by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as it may enable show organisers to use their works for free.

Home to the largest number of Khmer people in the Mekong Delta, Soc Trang province has recently been celebrating the traditional Chol Chnam Thmay New Year festival.

Famous actresses Angela Phuong Trinh and Thanh Thuy, who are main casts of the Vietnamese movie “Taxi, Em Ten Gi?” (Taxi, what’s your name?), have been invited to the Cannes Film Festival, which will take place in May in France.

The Vietnam Writers' Association has decided to translate the war novel 'Bien Ban ChienTranh 1-2-3-4.75' (War Minutes January-April, 1975) written by veteran journalist Tran Mai Hanh into English.

A contemporary arts exhibition is being held at the launch of a new contemporary arts centre, The Factory, in HCM City.

Fashion designer Kelly Bui has announced she will attend the next instalment of Shanghai Fashion Week, Southern China.

The YDA Club, a cinema club dedicated to Vietnamese movies in Paris’ District 5, will present three short movies by Vietnamese independent filmmakers on April 16.

Singer Thu Minh said she was preparing to file a case against the investor of the Leman Luxury Apartments in HCM City for failing to complete its project on time.

Many famous Vietnamese singers make tens of thousands of dollars performing at wedding parties of rich families.

Vietnamese people in France are the main characters in 130 photos featured in an exhibition opened on Ho Chi Minh City’s Book Street (Nguyen Van Binh street).

Vietnam’s best fashion designers and their international counterparts will show their collections in the third Vietnam International Fashion Week.

A traditional ceremony commemorating sailors of Hoang Sa (Paracel) Flotilla, took place in An Vinh communal temple, Ly Son island district, central Quang Ngai province.

Twenty-seven artists and technicians from Opera Australia will delight music lovers in Hanoi with the famous opera La Bohème to be held at the Hanoi Opera House on April 10.

Several film-makers in Vietnam have raised doubts over the VND 700 billion in revenue that was claimed to have been earned by local films in 2015.