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The organisers of Miss Vietnam 2014 have announced that this year's pageant crown will feature pearls, bringing its value to around VND2.5 billion.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in conjunction with Panasonic Vietnam Co, Ltd kicked off a photo exhibition featuring world heritage sites in Hanoi on October 18.

Vietnamese supermodel Ha Anh has been fined VND10 million and banned from performances for three months in HCM City for wearing skimpy costumes.

The third Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF), ‘Cinema – Integration and Sustainable Development’, is scheduled to be held in Hanoi from November 23-27, said the Vietnam Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s Department of Cinema on September 15.

After the Miss Vietnam International 2014 finale in Japan, several Vietnamese artists expressed dissatisfaction with arrangements at the show.

An exhibition and fashion show featuring four Italian collections of Vietnamese designers will take place at the Centre of Italian Culture and Brands (Casa Italia) in Hanoi from October 15-20.

Children's innocent eyes and mothers breast-feeding their babies are among the touching images in a photography exhibition at the Vietnamese Women's Museum in Hanoi.

The American pop star Kelly Clarkson will perform during the final night of Miss Vietnam 2014 on December 6 on Phu Quoc Island.

President Truong Tan Sang received a delegation of international artists on October 8, who will perform in the Asia-Europe New Music Festival, the first of its kind in Vietnam.

An exhibition casting the spotlight on the economic, cultural and societal achievements of the capital city over the past 60 years has opened in Hanoi and runs until October 12.

The Asia-Europe New Music Festival 2014 is scheduled to take place from Oct. 8-12 in Hanoi and Ha Long city for the first time with the participation of 200 local and international composers and artists from 30 countries and territories.

Three Vietnamese women were fined and banned from any type of public performance for attending at overseas beauty and model contests without licenses.

The Miss Vietnam 2014 pageant has just kicked off with several promising candidates.

An exhibition of paper horses that convey the relationship between the French and the Vietnamese people, and the bilateral cultural exchange will open tomorrow in Hanoi.

The ten most outstanding citizens of Hanoi will be honoured on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the capital.

Amid the changes of modern life, arts researchers are concerned that traditional activities could disappear. They are particularly worried about bai choi, a traditional musical game from the central coastal region.

An exhibition documenting Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos is ongoing in the southernmost province of Ca Mau, with materials tracing back to the 16th century and a six-volume atlas compiled by a famous

Tens of thousands of books can be viewed by readers at the Hanoi Book Fair which opened at the Royal Citadel Heritage site on September 26.