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With lights, dance, music and fireworks, the biennial Huế Festival opened yesterday evening, showcasing a variety of cultural and craft shows performed by artists and artisans from Vietnamese localities and other countries.

From April 28 to May 2, the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai hosts numerous activities for Sapa Culture and Tourism Week 2016.

Many artists in Vietnam have to raised their concern about numerous fake profiles on Facebook that are using their names to commit fraud.

Saigon Classical Music Group will come back with a free-entrance Springtime Melodies concert at 7 pm on April 30 at Edenstar Hotel in HCMC’s District 1.

As many as 200 objects and historic photos are on display at the Hồ Chí Minh Museum in downtown Hanoi featuring Hồ Chí Minh and Vietnam’s first National Asembly elections .

Dozens of international groups and hundreds of local artists will bring to the Hue Festival 2016 folk shows, hot air balloon performance, beer carnival and other activities.

The city’s first Ornament Plant and Pet Festival is to take place from Wednesday to May 5 in Vinhomes Riverside ecological urban area in the Long Biên District.

Vietnamese film Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass" has just won the best film at the Kids International Film Festival, part of the Toronto International Film Festival.

Kites of all shapes, sizes and colours will fill the skies over Ecopark in Hanoi this coming April 30-May 3, as the first-ever international kite festival of the suburban township takes flight.

Domestic designers took the first show of Vietnam International Fashion Week 2016 (VIFW) by storm, which is taking place in Ho Chi Minh City from April 23-26 , Quan Doi Nhan Dan (People’s Army) newspaper reported.

Several photographers have voiced their opposition to a new Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism circular that bans artists and models from nude photography, saying that they would ignore the circular.

The southern metropolis Ho Chi Minh City will set off fireworks in four venues to celebrate the 41st anniversary of the liberation of South Vietnam and national reunification (April 30), and the 130th International May Day (May 1).

The exhibition “Vietnam’s Hoang Sa, Truong Sa – Historical and Legal Evidence” came to My Tho city in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang.

Two stage works by artists from the Vietnam Drama Theatre will debut in Chinese cities on April 21-27.

Cultural researcher Nguyen Hung Vi, shares his thoughts about overcrowding and poor management at traditional festivals.

Vietnam ​is placed in Group A dubbed the “Group of Death” at the ASEAN U-16 Football Championship.

The movie Trung So (Jackpot), based on the true story of Lanh, a lottery ticket seller in the southern province of Dong Thap, was granted the ‘Vietnamese Oscar’ Golden Kite award for feature movie at a glittery award ceremony

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.