Rally Indochina is Southeast Asia’s largest annual charity motorcycle adventure to raise money for the Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation to combat trafficking of children in Việt Nam. This is the rally’s sixth year and the first time the route will head north from Hà Nội.

A street parade comprising art troupes from several countries, including Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Cuba, was part of the Huế Festival that is currently underway. 

A class on traditional culture of the Bố Y ethnic minority group in the northern province of Lào Cai will be held in the locality from May 11 to 13.

“Worth watching,” “interesting” and “well-organised” were the words the audience used to describe the ongoing international kite festival at Ecopark, some 13km southeast of Hà Nội’s city centre.

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The biggest-ever kite festival in the north is going on at Ecopark, a new urban residential area in the northern province of Hưng Yên, some 13km from Hà Nội’s city centre.

The Áo dài fashion show, one of the major events at the ongoing biennial Huế Festival, was held in Huế yesterday evening

Huế Festival 2016, which kicked of last night, offered visitors many traditional cultural performances.

A ring-tailed lemur is captured for sale in Mai Châu District in the northern Hòa Bình Province. Some sell them as pets or even as food despite a wildlife trade ban. -- VNS Photo Việt Thanh