Entertainment

Well-known bands and singers from 15 nations and territories in the Asia-Pacific region will get together for the ABU TV Song Festival on Saturday night.

Vietnamese representative Truong Thi May, the 2007 Miss Ethnic Vietnam runner-up, has presented traditional scarves to this year’s Miss Universe pageant contestants.

A feature film on the culture and lifestyle of the ethnic Mong people living in Vietnam's northwest region will be screened next week.

Model Lan Khue won first place among female models in the Vietnam Supermodel Contest, but there was no winner announced among the male models.

Images of old Hanoi have drawn the old Dao Hung in. The hustle and bustle outside the Exhibition Hall on Hang Bai Street now seem a world away.

Singers may be paid half of revenues from digital music sales, according to their discussion with a host of a local online music site.

The violin played by the bandmaster of the Titanic as the liner sank beneath the waves goes up for auction on Saturday.

Siestes Electronique (Electronic Naps), an experimental music concert to take place at Thong Nhat Park tomorrow, lets attendees enjoy music in a casual setting.

According to many, the three-day-long 18th Vietnam Film Festival may have be the most boring festival to date.

A total of 26 countries and territories have confirmed their participation in the Hue Festival 2014 by sending art troupes to perform at the event.

The Department of Performing Arts has given a permit for Truong Thi May to compete at Miss Universe 2013 in Russia.

The organising board of the Vietnam Film Festival will be selecting films before allowing them to compete at the event, a board's member said.

Dragonfly Theatre Co and Sai Gon Sound System are set to stage Dangerous Liaisons, an English play based on the classic novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos De Laclos.

Vietnam Television received an original version of a 3D cartoon about General Vo Nguyen Giap for national broadcast during the late military hero’s state funeral.

Plan International and the Centre for Studies and Applied Sciences in Gender, Family, Women, and Adolescents opened their “My Life, My Dream” photo exhibition in Hanoi on October 11.

General Vo Nguyen Giap’s documents and photographs are on display in the National Library of Vietnam, at 31 Trang Thi street in Hanoi.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Tourism Promotion Centre, in coordination with the city’s Tourism Association and the Saigon International Film School, are running a Vietnamese street cuisine filmmaking competition from October 7 to December 7.

Thousands of books are on display at Autumn Book Fair 2013 which opened at the Vietnam Women’s Museum in Hanoi on October 10.

Many cultural activities will be delayed as they were scheduled to take place during state funeral ceremonies for General Giap.