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A national contest seeking talented dancers is scheduled to be held this October in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City by the Department of Performing Arts under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Some 100 paintings will be auctioned online at the Viet Art Exchange Facebook from March 23 to 25 to raise funds for the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

A long queue of cars forms in front of a drive-in cinema in Seoul, as South Koreans look for safer spaces to enjoy a movie without the risk of contracting the coronavirus raging across the world.

Xẩm Hà Thành (Hanoi buskers’ singing group) has recently published various videos of traditional xẩm singing.

The northern province of Bắc Ninh has completed a dossier seeking UNESCO’s inclusion of the making of Đông Hồ folk paintings on the list of intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent protection.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced that the 6th Hanoi International Film Festival will be held in the fourth quarter.

Miss Vietnam 2010 Dang Thi Ngoc Han and her future husband have decided to suspend their wedding party scheduled to be held this month due to Covid-19.

Five emerging artists or groups will have the chance to engage with traditional disciplines of Vietnamese performing arts and music via a residency programme which will start on March 1.

Many show organisers have incurred big losses due to postponed and cancelled shows due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

The Bay Nui Ox Racing Festival in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang is expected to become an international event under a project recently approved by the provincial People’s Committee.

Dac Ngoc is poised to become the first local designer to participate in the Luxury Brand Global Fashion Week 2020 which is scheduled to get underway in the Republic of Korea on May 23.

An exhibition featuring works by 20 leading painters in Vietnamese fine arts will be held in April at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum.

The fifth National Young Fine Arts Festival will be held in Hanoi in June, for young Vietnamese artists aged between 18 and 35.

Danang People's Committee has just decided not to hold the Danang International Fireworks Festival in 2020 due to the impact of novel coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19).

The Hue Festival 2020, a big cultural event of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, will be rescheduled due to complex developments of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).