Entertainment

Despite the inclement rainy weather, thousands of people are flockingto Hanoi’s PhucTho stadium to attend a buffalo fighting festival – the first of its kind in the capital city.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has kicked off a national beauty contest in search of Miss Ocean, who will be the face of its marine environment protection projects.

A 32-episode television film on the legendary Vietnamese intelligence agent Pham Xuan An will be shot soon in both the US and Vietnam.

The Hanoi-based Tuoi Tre Theatre has decided to send several of their best artists to produce plays in HCM City in hopes of attracting a bigger audience there.

The VTV6 channel of Vietnam Television Station will broadcast a Vietnamese edition of Star Academy - a highly successful television talent show based on the Spanish format produced by Endemol.

Musician and singer Thanh Bui has just had an exchange to introduce the musical culture and traditional musical instruments of Vietnam to students on the cruise ship MV Explorer of the US.

China's "Black Coal, Thin Ice" by Diao Yinan about a washed up ex-cop investigating a series of grisly murders won the Berlin film festival's Golden Bear top prize Saturday.

President Truong Tan Sang’s February 15 New Year visit to Dong Mo’s Culture Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups on the outskirts of Hanoi coincided with spring festival celebrations.

A photobook published by the HCM City General Publishing House released last week depicts the lives of soldiers and people who live and work on the Truong Sa (Spratly Islands) archipelago.

One of the biggest spring festivals of Vietnam, the Tran Temple festival, opened last night in the northern Thai Binh province.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said on February 11 that preservation of traditional music forms assumes greater importance as the country deepens its international integration.

Vietnam Television has officially sued websites, including Youtube, which published the Kitchen Gods 2014 show without permission.

Several festivals held by various ethnic groups will be celebrated at the Culture Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups in Hanoi this month.

Thousands of tourists and Buddhist dignitaries flocked to the Yen Tu Pagoda in Quang Ninh province to join the Spring Festival, which officially opened on February 9, the tenth day of the first lunar month.

The northern border province of Quang Ninh will host the annual Japanese cherry blossom festival to promote cultural exchange between Vietnamese and Japanese localities.

An exhibition of Vietnamese folk paintings has attracted a large number of visitors, giving hope to some for a revival of the two traditional art forms, Hang Trong and Dong Ho.

A festival to commemorate the nation’s legendary mother Au Co began in Ha Hoa district, the northern midland province of Phu Tho on February 6, the seventh day of the Lunar New Year.

Writer Nguyen Thi Thu Hue said that many modern Vietnamese writers are so consumed by the everyday worries of life that they fail to create meaningful works.

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