Entertainment

In recent years the Vietnamese music industry has been lit up by a new generation of emerging female artists who can write their own songs and perform them with their hearts and their talent.

Vietnamese movie “Khat Vong Thang Long” (Thang Long Aspiration) has been removed from the nominee list for the Best Foreign film category of Oscar 2012.

Images from the development of the Hanoi urban centre from 1873-1945 are on display at the Thang Long-Hanoi Heritage Conservation Centre.

Well-known French electronic artist Alex Millan is set to perform at the French cultural centre l'Espace in Hanoi next month.

Vietnam did a great job in 2011 organizing many events to promote its land and people. In 2012 the country will continue to use diplomacy to foster its culture.

After numerous criticisms of vietnamese stars for nude photos and "costume malfunctions", audiences continue to be dissatisfied with the apologies.

Britons including Kate Winslet were among the early winners at the Golden Globes, as British comic Ricky Gervais again took mocking aim at Hollywood.

Thu May, Truc Diem and Thuy Ngan are among the world’s top 100 beauty queens as voted by the beauty observer Globalbeauties.

Singer My Tam, who dominated the Mai Vang music award for several years, fell from this year’s top ten.

"Harry Potter" cast a spell at the People's Choice awards on a night that also saw big wins for singer Katy Perry at the start of the Hollywood awards season.

Vietnam's music industry has been undergoing fast and furious change, with an emerging movement that is unique to this country.

For the first time the audience will have a chance to enjoy famous love songs by Phu Quang and Trinh Cong Son in one show in Hanoi on February 1-2.

Photos and objects featuring “quan ho” (love duet singing) will be displayed at an exhibition at the Vietnam Cultural Centre in France from January 22.

Hoang Thi Thuy became the winner of Vietnam's Next Top Model 2011 in the presence of the show’s creator Tyra Banks.

The movie “Hot Boy Noi Loan” (Lost in Paradise) by director Vu Ngoc Dang will be sent to the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012.

India's Bollywood film industry is eyeing its Asian rival China as a potential market, after a successful run of "3 Idiots", the coming-of-age comedy starring Aamir Khan.

“Bay Rong” or Clash will be the first Vietnamese action film that will appear on Star Movies in Asia and the Middle East on Saturday night, January 14.

An exhibition entitled “Mother Goddess Worship” introduces artworks featuring cultural life of Vietnamese women.

The 2nd Street Book Festival themed “Tradition-Present-Future” celebrating the Tet holiday season will open in Ho Chi Minh City from January 20 to 26, 2012.