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A pointless battle over copyright permission to use songs by composer Vu Thanh An seemingly came to a close at a press conference on Monday.

Islamic Cham ethnic people in the central province of Binh Thuan on June 16 kicked off a wide range of activities to welcome their Ramuwan (New Year) festival, the biggest of its kind of the local Islamic community.

Musicians from Vietnam, the US and the region will gather for a music festival and a lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gender (LGBT) pride event in Hanoi on Saturday.

Vietnamese youth in the Czech Republic performed in the first music festival on June 14 in Prague; a chance for the second and third generations of the Vietnamese community in the country to meet and exchange.

"Following in one's father's footsteps, in addition to having an inborn talent, is still not enough for pursuing tuong (classical drama) of Hue. To pursue the art, hot and fierce passion is needed," artist La Hung said.

Art troupes in HCM City are asking the HCM City authority to invest in upgrading and building theatres to meet audiences' demand.

Selected documentaries from Vietnam and Europe will be screened at an annual documentary film festival in Hanoi.

Noted Italian photographer Luca Bracali has just kicked off his eight-day journey across Viet Nam on a Vespa motorbike.

Hollywood filmmaker David Hardberger has joined a comedy film project directed by Vietnamese director Phan Minh.

The private film company LBT has introduced its latest film on children in hopes of drawing young audiences away from Korean and American productions that have come to dominate cinemas this summer.

Movie actress Hong Anh, together with young singer Minh Hang and Miss Asia USA 2006 Jennifer Pham, will attend a TV reality show filmed in South Korea.

As many as 34 contestants compete in the final round of the Miss Mekong Delta pageant 2015, scheduled to be held in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho from June 1-27.

The French School of Asian Studies and the Museum of Fine Arts of HCM City are jointly holding the exhibition Vietnam Through a Lens consisting of 100 photographs selected from the school's collection of old photos of Vietnam.

An exhibition of 10,000 portrait photos of children in Vietnam’s northern mountainous regions opened in Hanoi on May 30.

It has been unveiled that world renowned global brand Tamsin Cooper has been chosen to serve on the jury of a fashion show sponsored by New Zealand on August 6 in HCM City at the Caravelle Saigon Hotel.

A Vietnamese movie about childd will be distributed abroad under deal signed between HCM City-based Galaxy Studio and Fortissimo Films, an Amsterdam- and Hong Kong-based organisation involved in film, televisihooon and videos sales and distribution.

Singers who perform songs about love of country do not think about money and glory, but only their passion for revolutionary music and the pleasure it gives them and others.

Laguna will also deliver a lecture at the Vietnam National Academy of Music on the following day.