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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.

Hat boi (classical Vietnamese opera) is now an old-fashioned art which only marks its presence in some parts of southern Vietnam.

The fourth annual German Festival in the capital city on Saturday attracted thousands of people.

The increase in popularity of the Republic of Korea’s culture, also known as Hallyu, has taken root in numerous Asian countries, including Vietnam, through cinemas, game shows, cuisine and fashion trends, highly influencing the youth in the country.

An exhibition of dozens of pictures of HCM City taken over the last two decades by a photojournalist opened in the city's Phu My Hung area.

A photo exhibition is set to open at the Vietnam Art Gallery in celebration of the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between America and Vietnam, and the 40th anniversary of the end of the war.

Truong Ho Phuong Nga, 2007 Miss Vietnam in Russia, has recently been arrested for swindling VND16b and she may be revoked her crown.

The US Cable News Network CNN has introduced a number of Vietnam’s propaganda posters during wartime that raged between 1954 and 1975.

The Da Nang International Fireworks Competition 2015 (DIFC 2015) will kick off in the central city on March 28, drawing five teams.

The National Futsal Championship will kick off on March 29 in Ho Chi Minh City with new rules, under which 10 teams will compete in a two-stage tournament.

Trang Ha, a young and renowned Vietnamese writer, has strong views about Vietnam's men.

Seventeen chefs from Viet Nam will join more than 1,000 chefs from all over the world for the first-ever "Gout de France" (Taste of France) to celebrate French gastronomy on March 19.

Nearly 800 of the latest works from Vietnamese designers are being showcased at Vietnam Fashion Week Fall-Winter 2015 showing off the designers’ creativity — a good sign for Vietnam’s fashion industry.

The fifth Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival has kicked off in Buon Ma Thuot city, Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, as part of activities to mark the 40th anniversary of the Buon Ma Thuot victory.

Objects, letters and diaries recording essential moments in the lives of more than 80 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people throughout Vietnam are on display at the first exhibition of its kind in downtown Hanoi.