Entertainment

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.

Audiences in Hanoi will have a chance to listen to the extraordinary voice of two-time Grammy winner Anne Sofie von Otter in a one-off concert in Hanoi on March 2.

The annual love duet singing festival will be organised on February 27 and 28 in Lim Town, Nội Duệ and Liên Bão Commune, Tiên Du District in the northern province of Bắc Ninh.

An exhibition featuring the charming beauty of the Vietnamese traditional dress Ao dai has opened at the InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula in the central city of Da Nang.

The documentary film on Vietnam’s famous Buddhist Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh will be screened in Vietnam beginning March 1st this year.

An exhibition of paintings on 2018 Lunar New Year (the Year of the Dog) will open at Dong A Gallery in Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, Hanoi on February 25.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has requested the northern province of Vinh Phuc to tighten control over the organising of the Hai Luu buffalo fighting festival in the local district of Song Lo.

Many people have flocked to Lam Son Stadium in Vung Tau City to watch the first dog race of the Lunar New Year.

The Yen Tu Spring Festival will open on February 25 (the 10th day of the Lunar New Year), in Uong Bi city, the northern province of Quang Ninh, kicking off the National Tourism Year hosted by the locality.

French photographer Rehahn plans to build a Cơ Tu Museum offering information on the ethnic group living in the mountainous areas of Quảng Nam Province in the centre of the province’s Tây Giang district.

The first international circus gala kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on February 16, the first day of the Lunar New Year 2018.

The Hung Kings Festival will be hosted by Phu Tho Province with help from four other provinces, including the northern province of Thai Nguyen, the central province of Quang Nam and the southern provinces of Binh Duong and Kien Giang.