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More than 1,500 people will participate in the "International Yoga Festival - Da Nang 2022" held at Bien Dong (East Sea) Park in Son Tra district, in the central coastal city of Da Nang, on June 11-12.

The first floating fruit festival organised by HCM City next week will present specialty fruits from the southern region in a cultural milieu including folk music and dance.

Doan Hong Trang, the winner of a beauty contest in the central region in 2016, will represent Vietnam at Miss Global 2022, which will be held in Bali, Indonesia, from June 1 to 11.

Vietnamese representative Phung Truong Tran Dai officially unveiled an outfit that she will wear during the National Costume Competition at the Miss International Queen 2022 pageant set to take place in June in Thailand.

The Hanoi Cuisine and Handicraft Villages Tourism Festival has opened to visitors in Lê Quang Đạo Street in Nam Từ Liêm District (opposite the F1 track) to entertain SEA Games visitors.

Two local beauties have been named in the list of the leading 50 candidates of Miss Grand Slam 2021, as announced by Global Beauties.

The Miss Supranational Vietnam 2022 pageant kicked off on May 17 in Ho Chi Minh City as the country searches for the most outstanding contestant to compete at the global Miss Supranational 2023 competition in Poland.

The Vietnamese Women’s Museum held a ceremony on May 17 in Hanoi to receive roughly 500 artifacts donated by Mark Rapoport, a doctor from the United States, and his family.

Hundreds of lanterns were released into the sky by Indonesian Buddhists celebrating Vesak day at the temple of Borobudur for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic hit the country.

The Aquafina Vietnam International Fashion Week (AVIFW) 2022 is scheduled to take place in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 7 between May 25 and May 29 after it had been postponed for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

An exhibition of 150 art works and objects of Vietnamese King Ham Nghi (1870-1947) is taking place at Nice Museum for Asian Arts in France.

Popular Vietnamese pop star Son Tung M-TP has just been fined VND70 million (USD3,044) as his music video contained content that "has a negative impact on morals, community health and social psychology."

A lotus festival, the first of its kind in Vietnam, is scheduled to take place in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap between May 19 - 21, which is expected to set a record of 200 lotus-made dishes.

A painting entitled ‘Mère et enfant’ (Mother and child) by Vietnamese-French painter Le Thi Luu has been sold for 529,200 EUR (some 562,000 USD) in an online auction by Sotheby’s.

A total of 70 sketches of the resistance war on the southern battlefield are being introduced to the public at an exhibition that opened in Hanoi on April 26.