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A Vietnamese film, entitled Nuoc 2030 (Water 2030), will be opening the Berlin International Film Festival's Panorama selection.

The Goethe Institute in Hanoi will offer German films for public viewing at the end of this month, include a diverse mixture of successful German movies.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of the leading actors of his generation, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment in what a New York police source described as an apparent drug overdose.

After years of squabbling, Harry Potter's best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger finally became an item -- but now their creator JK Rowling has admitted she made a mistake by marrying them off.

The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology promises to entertain the public in the post-Tet weekend with a range of cultural and folk-related activities to celebrate the Lunar New Year holidays.

Tourism parks and entertainment centres in Ho Chi Minh City have made significant investments to attract visitors during the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival, which begins on January 31.

Bringing Xoan singing into schools has been recognised as an effective way of keeping the traditional art form in the hearts and minds of local people in the northern province of Phu Tho, its cradle.

An ongoing exhibition focuses on the origin and history of the two famous genres of Vietnamese folk paintings, Dong Ho and Hang Trong.

A private television studio has accused Vietnam Television of violating copyrights on one of its programmes, saying that they were completing procedures to bring the case to the court.

Singers Phuong Dung and Giao Linh and many other Vietnamese overseas artists are travelling back to Vietnam for Tet (Lunar New Year) this year, and are set to perform in HCM City and elsewhere.

Model Phan Hoang Thu was fined VND15 million for competing in the Miss World Tourism 2013 pageant without permission.

Los Angeles — Veteran British rocker Phil Collins said in comments aired Friday that he has started collaborating with compatriot Adele, reported to be working on a follow-up to her hit 2011 album "21."

Swedish band Vocalettes will make their debut performance in Hanoi tonight to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Sweden's and Vietnam's diplomatic relations.

Paintings of Hanoi's peach blossoms, the symbolic Tet flower of the North, by Nguyen Huu Khoa are being displayed at an exhibition called Dao Xuan.

Russian punk band Pussy Riot missed out on a prize at the inaugural Prudential Eye Awards in Singapore on Saturday for a video featuring a protest inside a Moscow cathedral that landed members in jail.

Nearly 150 maps, publications, and artifacts are on display in Da Nang city at an exhibition titled “Hoang Sa, Truong Sa archipelagos are of Vietnam’s sovereignty – historical evidence”.

The first high-end, large-scale exhibition featuring Japanese history, culture and the long-term trading relations between Japan and Vietnam has opened in downtown Hanoi.

All Megastar cinemas have been renamed CGV as of Wednesday, January 15, announced the CJ CGV Group of South Korea, the new manager of Vietnam's biggest cinema chain.