Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli performed on Monday at the launch of a huge cultural centre in Kuwait which includes a 2,000-seat opera house, the first in the oil-rich Gulf state.

Inferno, the latest big screen installment of Dan Brown's conspiracy novels, fizzled out in its opening weekend in North America, industry data showed Monday, earning $10 million less than expected.

Hà Nội cuisine features a wide variety of dishes with vermicelli. Among them, bún chả (vermicelli with grilled pork and fresh herbs) delights, with its seductive taste and aroma. Nothing is better than savouring bún chả at a small food stand in summer or winter, while the intriguing scent of grilled pork surrounds you.

The second season of "Forever Young", a soap opera about friendship and love between young people from Việt Nam and South Korea, returns to Vietnamese television screens on November 3.

Meritorious artist Phạm Bằng passed away last night aged 85 at Hồng Ngọc General Hospital in Hà Nội.

A portrait of President Hồ Chí Minh which was made by Algerian-French artist Mustapha Boutadjine was given to the Hồ Chí Minh Museum in Hà Nội on October 31.

Thousands of locals and visitors flocked to the Nguyễn Huệ pedestrian street in HCM City to enjoy the first Unicorn, Lion and Dragon Dance Festival that kicked off on October 30.

A bed first made famous by Vincent van Gogh’s 1888 painting The Bedroom, may today still be lurking in a home or attic in a small Dutch town, an art historian claimed on Sunday.

The fourth Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF), themed “Cinema-Integration and Sustainable Development,” will take place from November 1 to 5.