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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.

Fireworks displays will be organised in HCM City on Reunification Day (April 30) after over a year of no such events due to Covid-19 prevention.

The Book and Reading Culture Day 2022 kicked off at the National Library of Vietnam (NLV) on April 15 under the theme ‘Make culture prosper and develop reading culture’.

A Korean culture road festival organized by the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Embassy in Vietnam will be held in Hanoi from April 16 and April 17.

ASEAN Film Week 2022 is set to get underway in Hanoi, Da Nang, and Ho Chi Minh City in the second quarter of the year to mark ASEAN’s 55th founding anniversary.

A mobile app named ‘Den Hung’ (Hung Temple) has just been launched on the ninth day of the third lunar month and a day prior to the death anniversary of Hung Kings - the legendary founders of the nation.

The opening season of upcoming reality show Street Dance Vietnam is set to be broadcast on HTV7 channel from 9 p.m. every Friday, with the programme starting on April 22.

Famed Japanese manga artist Fujiko Fujio A, known for beloved children's cartoons including "Ninja Hattori" and "Little Ghost Q-Taro", has died aged 88, local media reported on Thursday.