Entertainment

Actress Angela Phuong Trinh may be fined for wearing a skimpy costume while performing a sexy pole dance at a bar in Hanoi, one official said.

Pianist Dang Thai Son, one of the world's leading pianists, will hold a concert in Hanoi and HCM City in December.

Veteran photographer Quang Phung has been nominated for the Grand Award in this year’s Bui Xuan Phai-Love for Hanoi Awards which will honour a host of individuals and projects making significant contributions to arts and culture in Hanoi.

Daring bikers from famous Asian motorbike teams thrilled fans with an excellent stunt show performance during yesterday's opening ceremony for Vietnam's first motorbike festival in Phu My Hung's Crescent Residence in HCM City.

Vietnam's Next Top Model 2013 is facing public criticism because of the organiser's use of certain promotional ploys considered vulgar in Vietnamese society.

A collection of 100 unique Ao Dai (traditional long dress) samples from three Vietnamese designers will be showed at Chambord, the most ancient and famous castle in the world, France on September 7.

The Hanoi Cheo Theatre has introduced a new play, which injects modern sensibilities, as an attempt to recapture the interest of young audiences.

The domination of modern arts has pushed many Vietnamese traditional art forms into oblivion, including Cải Lương with lots of its artists faced with poverty in old age.

HCM City will hold an exhibition entitled “Vietnam’s Hoang Sa, Truong Sa – Historical Evidence” from August 22–29, showcasing nearly 150 maps and documents affirming Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos.

Intellectuals congregated at a scientific workshop held in the northern province of Bac Giang on August 16 to explore measures needed to revive and develop a collection of woodblocks at the provincial Vinh Nghiem pagoda.

The great influx of unqualified dancing groups has caused the overall level of dance performance programmes to plummet.

Elvis Presley fans from around the world made their annual pilgrimage to Graceland on Thursday to pay their respects to the rock n' roll icon with a solemn candlelight vigilon the 36th anniversary of his death.

The first international theatre schools festival will be held in HCM City from September 5 to 10.

Various doctors were "competing" to treat Michael Jackson, each offering stronger and stronger painkillers long before his 2009 death, the King of Pop's ex-wife testified.

Singer Siu Black has called for her debtors' and audience’s sympathy to allow her to come back to the stage.

Craft and art shows including an exhibition by disabled Japanese photographers will open the annual Hoi An-Japan Cultural Festival on August 23.

Renowned Australian model coach Adam Williams has been invited to judge Vietnam’s Next Top Model 2013 auditions in Ho Chi Minh City on August 12 and Hanoi on August 19.

Director Dang Nhat Minh has come out with a scathing critique of the top-down style management in the movie industry in Vietnam.

About 100 artists from circus troupes will gather at the National Circus Festival 2013, which starts today in Hanoi.