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The 10th HCM City Book Festival, themed “Books – Culture, Integration, and Development”, opened at the Le Van Tam Park in District 1 on March 19.

Some 50 sakura trees of different species, above 2.5m high each, and 10,000 branches of sakura blossoms will be displayed during the 2018 Vietnam-Japan Cultural Exchange Festival in downtown Hanoi, starting this weekend.

Young women from across the country are encouraged to participate in the national Miss Vietnam 2018 competition, which has just been launched.

Many people still attended a velvet and silk fashion show at Dien Hong Garden, despite the rain in Hanoi on the second day of the Italy-Vietnam Fashion Week.

An exhibition featuring daily life in Hanoi and its people opened on Friday at the Hanoi Museum as part of the ongoing three-day National Press Festival held in the city.

18 Vietnamese and Italian designers will participate in the Italy - Vietnam Autumn-Winter Fashion Week as part of activities to mark 45 years of the diplomatic ties between the two countries.

A festival showcasing Peruvian grapes will take place in Hanoi from March 13 to 20, organized by the Embassy of Peru to mark Vietnam permitting the importation of the country’s grapes after more than five years of negotiations.

Vietnamese representative Nguyen Huong Giang won Miss International Queen 2018, one of the world's top beauty pageant for transgender women, held in Thailand on March 9.

Vietnamese film lovers will have the chance to enjoy cinema works by the Francophone community at a film festival to be held in Vietnam from March 17 to April 1.

Vietnamese musicians Nguyên Lê and Ngô Hồng Quang have been nominated for Echo Jazz 2018, a prestigious jazz award hosted by the ACT Music recording company.

The third International Food Festival will be held from March 14-17 in the ancient city of Hoi An, Quang Nam province, with the participation of 12 famous chefs from around the world.

A film on French playwright and director Marine Bachelot Nguyen’s Les Ombres Et Les Lèvres (Gays and Lesbians), a production on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Vietnam, will be screened in HCM City on Tuesday’s night.

Do Trinh Hoai Nam has been voted as the ao dai designer of the year in 2017 at the on-going 5th Ao Dai Festival held in HCM City.

When spring comes around with flowers seen everywhere, thousands of young people and families come to the book street in Hanoi, where a festival named “Doai Area welcomes spring” (Xu Doai Don Xuan) is organised.

Former heavyweight boxing champion of the world Mike Tyson has joined the cast of Girls 2 directed by Hong Kong director Barbara Wong Chun Chun, a film which has most of the scenes filmed in Vietnam.

An anti-corruption festival held annually in Haiphong City has just been listed as national cultural heritage by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.