Entertainment

The male pop group Backstreet Boys will perform in Vietnam in March, following their tour to Latin America.

In Vietnam’s new campaign to select a national flower, the lotus seems to be the front-runner.

Vietnam , Laos , Cambodia and Myanmar will jointly produce a documentary titled, “Four countries -- one destination” with the aim of promoting the countries’ tourism industry.

Models Lan Huong and Quang Thinh will participate in the 6th Asia Model Festival on January 21 in Seoul, South Korea.

British actor Christian Bale and US actress Annette Bening were among early winners at the Golden Globes, which launch Hollywood's glittering annual awards season.

More than 10 dance sport duos will perform in the first-ever “Vietnam dance sport stars festival”, to be held at the Trinh Hoai Duc Gymnasium in Hanoi.

The 2011 Spring Press Festival will be held at the Youth Culture House in District 1, HCM City on January 20-21.

Hanoi plans spectacular firework displays in 29 locations on lunar New Year’s Eve on February 3 according to the People’s Committee of the capital.

The first International Choir Festival & Competition will be held in the ancient town of Hoi An in the central province of Quang Nam from March 16-20.

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.