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Filmstars Sienna Miller, Jake Gyllenhaal and Sophie Marceau, as well as cult director Guillermo del Toro, are among the members of this year's Cannes film festival jury, organisers announced.

American singer, actress, and songwriter Demi Lovato will be guest singer in a music event in HCM City next month, multimedia company YAN Group has said in a release.

A class for female DJs will take place in Hanoi this weekend with the hopes of building a network of female music professionals.

Music reality shows are proliferating on television, at the expense of live performances to ticket-buying audiences, concert organisers say.

Police in HCM City have broken a prostitution ring involving models and actresses, several of whom were reported as missing persons.

Pham Thanh Luong of Hanoi on April 13 beat his teammate Nguyen Van Quyet and Le Cong Vinh of Binh Duong to win the Golden Ball Award for the best Vietnamese footballer of the year.

An array of activities will be held in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to observe the second Vietnam Book Day (April 21).

The translation of the 18th century epic poem – Tale of Kieu (Truyen Kieu) – by Nguyen Du (1766-1820) into the Russian language will be completed this summer in honour of what would have been the poet’s 250th birthday.

For US photographer Catherine Karnow, every corner, person or moment in Vietnam could be inspiration.

Sungha Jung, a highly talented guitarist from the Republic of Korea (RoK) is returning to Vietnam for two concerts on April 18 and 19 in Hanoi and HCM City respectively.

Nguyen Duc Vinh, a nine-year-old boy from the northern province of Bac Ninh, won Viet Nam's Got Talent 2015 competition in HCM City.

A TV series on the American war in South Vietnam began airing on Vietnam Television's VTV1 channel this week, as part of the station's screening to mark the 40th anniversary of the country's Reunification Day, April 30.

India's government launched a new air quality index on Monday, under intense pressure to act after the World Health Organization declared New Delhi the world's most polluted capital.

France’s Le Monde newspaper has published a book about President Ho Chi Minh, a figure that won national independence for Vietnam.

The project on restoring and preserving documentary films kept at the National Documentary and Scientific Film Production Studio will be continued with the assistance from the Belgium’s Wallonie - Bruxelles Delegation.

The annual – Hanoi Sound Stuff – music festival will kick off on April 9 in three venues in the city with a star-studded line-up of internationally talented musicians taking to the stage.

A musical show dealing with the fading of tradition as urbanisation approaches will be staged in Hanoi on April 4 and 5.

Vietnam has just left the poor-country group but national broadcaster Vietnam Television (VTV) is planning to build the world’s highest TV tower, a reader said in a letter to Tuoi Tre(Youth) newspaper.

Director Nguyen Hoang Diep's first feature film, entitled "Dap Canh Giua Khong Trung" (Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere), has won three prizes at the 29th Fribourg International Film Festival in Switzerland.