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The first Vietnam Beer Festival will be held at the Military Zone 7 Stadium in Ho Chi Minh City from January 21.

The Age Publishing House in coordination with the Vietnam Scientific Historical Association introduced two books to welcome the 11th National Party Congress.

Seventeen singers from ASEAN member countries are participating in the ASEAN Golden Voice Contest 2011 in Ho Chi Minh City from January 5 to 8.

More than 100 domestic and foreign professors, researchers and scholars gathered at an international seminar on “don ca tai tu” in Ho Chi Minh City from January 9-11.

A groundbreaking exhibition in Berlin tackling the personality cult of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler has been extended because of large numbers of visitors.

The Central Highland province of Dak Lak will host the third Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival in Buon Ma Thuot City from March 10 - 13 this year.

Michael Jackson's doctor was guilty of a string of failings leading to the pop icon's sudden death, prosecutors said as the physician appeared in court charged with manslaughter.

China is estimated to have made a record 1.5 billion dollars in box office takings in 2010, as a growing number of well-off urbanites flock to the cinema.

An art exhibition featuring Vietnamese folklore paintings and antiques are on display in the Vinh Long Province as part of a series of activities to mark the upcoming Tet.

Two Afghan policemen stand paralysed by fear in front of a plastic cup. But this is not some farcical scene from the battle against the Taliban -- it is a sketch from a new clown show in Kabul.

Le Khoi Nguyen is now Mister Vietnam 2010 and will attend Mister International 2011 in the Philippines.

Mister Vietnam 2010 contest will announce their winner at the Vung Tau Sporting Hall on January 1, 2011.

Pop star Janet Jackson announced that she would launch her world tour in Singapore on February 7.

"The Exorcist," the "Star Wars" sequel and "All the President's Men" were named to the Library of Congress National Film Registry.

Vietnam Television has launched the 2011 Folk Singing Festival to discover new original folk melodies peculiar to each region as well as prominent folk singing voices.

A hip hop contest would be organised every month for dancers throughout the country in preparation for a final round at the end of next year.

Tran Nguyen Uyen Linh of Ho Chi Minh City won the Vietnam Idol 2010 contest on December 25.

Books about Vietnam war written by two US veterans Larry Heinemann and Bruce Weigl, who served in the US-Vietnam war from 1967-68, hit shelves mid-December.

India's animators are hoping that a film starring two of Bollywood's biggest stars will revive the sector's fortunes, after earlier efforts to popularise the cartoon genre fell flat.