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Vietnam Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2019 will be held from September 11 to 13, at Nung Mountain at Hanoi Botanical Garden for the first time, aiming to bring fashion closer to nature.

The festival introducing national intangible heritage will be held in Tuyen Quang Province from September 20 to 23 for the first time.

Thirty-three teams will compete at the first International Lion, Dragon and Unicorn Dance Competition which will take place at the Helio Night Market in the central city of Da Nang from September 14-16.

The central province of Quang Tri is planning to organise various activities to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s historical visit to the province in September 1973.

More than 80 items featuring the dragons and phoenixes from the Nguyen Dynasty are being displayed at an exhibition in Hue City.

Miss Eco International orgnisers have announced they will strip Vietnamese representative Thu Dung of her 3rd runner-up title following her being investigated as part of a prostitution ring.

The British Council has launched the FAMLAB (Film, Archive and Music Lab) fund to support projects that engage with the music or film heritage of Vietnam through contemporary mediums.

The 8th Vietnamese culture festival (Vietfest Seoul 2018) was held at Gwanghwamun Square in downtown Seoul, the Republic of Korea (RoK), on September 2 to celebrate the 73rd National Day of Vietnam.

A nearly 1000-year-old ink painting by one of China's greatest literati masters Su Shi is expected to fetch US$51 million at auction, Christie's said Thursday as the work went on view in Hong Kong.

While many localities are calling for an end to the brutal killing of buffaloes at festivals, local authorities in Thua Thien-Hue Province's Hong Tien Commune have announced a plan for their traditional Buffalo Stabbing Festival.

A new exhibition of 78 thủy mặc (ink and wash) watercolour paintings by 40 Chinese-Vietnamese artists has opened at the HCM City Fine Arts Association.

One of the country’s biggest sea festivals will take place from August 28 to September 3 in the southern coastal province of Ba Ria Vung Tau.

A day of “Cheo” singing, or Vietnamese opera, will be held on August 26 at Hao Nam Temple in Hanoi’s Dong Da district.

More than 500 films from nearly 50 countries and territories will be introduced at the fifth Hanoi International Film Festival.

The first Vietnam Puppetry Festival held at Nguyen Hue Street in HCM City proved popular with tourists last weekend.

A vegetarian cuisine week is taking place from August 19 to 26 at Dam Sen Cultural Park in Ho Chi Minh City.