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“Vietnam Days” will be held in Bruxelles to mark the Vietnam National Day and promote cultural cooperation programme between Vietnam and Wallonie-Bruxelles.

The 2010 Vietnam International Piano Contest will be held for the first time in Hanoi from September 5 to 13.

Free musical shows will be held in 15 cities and provinces to celebrate Vietnam's Day of Music on Friday.

The television drama series "Mad Men" kept its crown as the best drama series at the 62nd annual Emmy Awards.

The first Vietnam Music Day will be held at the Cultural Friendship Palace in Hanoi on September 3.

The French version of “The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram” was published by French publisher Philippe Picquier on August 20.

A special concert to mark the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi was held in Berlin on August 22.

Mexico's Jimena Navarrete was crowned Miss Universe in an upset victory that stunned the pageant world.

An enormous embroidered piece entitled “Coi xua” (Old Origins) to mark the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long Hanoi will be o­n display in the capital.

Thousands of artists, veterans and people will join the art show titled “Thang Long – Hanoi- Ho Chi Minh Age” on October 3.

Luu Thi Diem Huong from Ho Chi Minh City was crowned Miss Vietnam World 2010 at Vinpearl Land, Nha Trang City.

A film week will be held in Vietnam from August 31 to September 6 to mark 65th anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day.

Supermodel Vu Nguyen Ha Anh has been appointed as the Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Vietnam.

Dancers and musicians of the Vietnam National Opera & Ballet Theater and Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra will be onstage in a special ballet concert.

The 2010 Miss Global Vietnam has been cancelled despite the fact that its contestants have arrived from all over the world.

A British folk singer revealed how John Lennon sent him a letter of reassurance -- but it did not reach him for 34 years.

An exhibition entitled “Dingbats Brazil” will be held at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum o­n August 21-30.

The Vietnam pageant closed in Ha Long city and Hanoi's constestant Dang Thi Ngoc Han was crowned as the beauty queen.

The Vietnamese translation of Wayne Karlin’s Wandering Souls, a novel about the American War in Vietnam, has hit bookstores throughout the nation.