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Merzhin will hit the Youth Theater in Hanoi at 8 p.m. on June 20, promising the Vietnamese audience a night to remember.

The Transilvania International Film festival plans to screen 220 movies including 3D productions, organisers said.

Ngoc Quyen’s nude photos have caused public controversy, but she said the cause is more important than personal publicity.

Phan Thi Mo, one of the top five contestants of Miss Vietnam World 2010, has been invited to take part in the Miss Asia USA 2011 pageant.

Nintendo provided the first glimpse of a second-generation Wii console designed to dispel notions its system is not up to the standards of "hardcore" videogame players.  

A student won first prize at a music contest with his impressive Vietnamese flute and piano performance.

Young Hanoians decked themselves out in their finest ‘cosplay’ costumes, paying homage to their manga favourites.

Cuban artists will perform at the 2011 Sea Festival in Nha Trang from June 11-16.

Science fiction film "Endhiran" was made in the south Indian language Tamil, but it pulled in huge profits from across the country and abroad.

‘Around the Hoan Kiem Lake and beyond’ is the first bilingual Vietnamese-English book by a Vietnamese photographer to be published this month.

Hanoi will be included in the world's largest timed filmmaking competition, 48 Hour Film Project.

US film giant Warner Bros has revealed the two long-delayed upcoming "The Hobbit" movies, prequels to the Tolkien epic "Lord of the Rings".

Thousands of children joined the program called “Befriend Southeast Asia” at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi in the weekend.

Vietnamese-Canadian bubble artist Fan Yang awed children in Hanoi with his fantastic use of bubbles after he performed his first show on Saturday.

Well-known Japanese mime artist Iimuro Naoki will perform in Ho Chi Minh City from June 7-8 and Hanoi from June 10-11.

The 2nd International Comics Festival will be held in Hanoi from May 30 to June 4.

An eight-member Australian krump group, Grrilla Step, arrived in Hanoi on May 25 to perform for the youth.

US film giant Columbia Pictures has won the US distribution rights for a film about the killing of Osama bin Laden.

The 15-year wait for the return of videogame tough guy "Duke Nukem" will end in June, 2K Games promised on Tuesday.