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Hanoi People's Court on Thursday started the first trial in the intellectual property infringement between a local company and a renowned director over the popular The Quintessence of Tonkin show.

A K-pop star has quit after admitting he watched illicit sex videos received from another artist, his agency said Thursday, the third singer to be engulfed in a scandal sweeping South Korea's music industry.

A burgeoning K-pop sex scandal claimed a second scalp as a singer who rose to fame after coming second in one of South Korea's top talent shows admitted secretly filming himself having sex and sharing the footage.

Eight elephants joined a football match among some of their other activities at the on-going Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak.

The People’s Committee of the south-central province of Khanh Hoa has approved the Nha Trang Beach Festival-Khanh Hoa 2019 with nearly 50 art, physical-sport, trade and symposium activities spanning from May 10-13.

The 2019 International Francophone Day entitled “Couleurs Francophones” (Francophone Colours) will offer a range of interesting activities, heard a press conference on the event held in Hanoi on March 12.

The Vietnamese Traditional Culture Festival and International Cultural Exchange 2019 will be held from April 5 to 9 at the historic Thang Long Citadel in Hanoi.

The seventh Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival opened in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on March 9 under the theme “The Quintessence of Jungle”.

Artists from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) will join a dance show named “Colour of Dances” at the Saigon Opera House in Ho Chi Minh City on March 13.

American contestant Jazell Barbie Royale was crowned "Miss International Queen" in Thailand on Friday at a beauty pageant for transgender women, becoming the first person of colour to win the competition since it started in 2004.

French gastronomy will come into the spotlight along with the screenings of documentary and feature films by young French directors during a film month scheduled for March 12-27 in Hanoi.

The Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival 2019 will take place on March 9 to 16 in Buon Ma Thuot city and the districts of Buon Don and Lak in the central highlands’ province of Dak Lak.

The UN Women in Vietnam, the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU), and the Vietnamese Women’s Museum launched a mobile exhibition themed “The safe journey” on March 6 to raise public awareness of ensuring safety for women and children.

Fine arts works will be displayed at an exhibition slated for mid-September at the Hanoi Museum.

Miss Vietnam Universe 2017 H’Hen Nie has been listed among Vietnam’s 50 most influential women in 2019.

More than 3,000 people wearing ao dai (traditional long dress) joined in a mass performance in Nguyen Hue pedestrian street on March 3, part of the ongoing sixth Ao Dai Festival in Ho Chi Minh City.

Well-known K-pop band Super Junior and singer Chungha will amaze audience in Ho Chi Minh City with their wonderful performances at V-Heartbeat concert, set to take place at Hoa Binh Theater on March 29.