Abu Dhabi's Louvre museum said it was commissioning renowned artists Giuseppe Penone and Jenny Holzer to create artworks to be displayed at its grand opening next year.

Nearly one thousand youngsters participated in the Dance for Kindness flash mob on Hà Nội’s pedestrian streets on Sunday to celebrate and promote World Kindness Day. The event also calls on people to overcome every circumstance and territorial, cultural and religious border to create a world of trust, belief and love.

Leon Russell, who achieved rare fame as a session musician by playing with artists from The Rolling Stones to Elton John and pursuing his own eclectic career, has died. He was 74.

Vietnamese architect Hoàng Thúc Hào has recently become the first Vietnamese person to receive the SIA-Getz Architecture Prize for Emergent Architecture in Asia.

An exhibition and award ceremony of sculptural and architectural icons which are placed in front of head offices, buildings, urban zones, parks, public sites have been held at Hà Nội Museum last week.

One of the world’s largest Buddha statues carved from precious jade will be displayed at Hội An Pagoda in Bình Dương Province from November 18-23.

The capital’s authorities have approved a plan to set up a fixed book street on December 19 Street, which links Hai Bà Trưng and Lý Thường Kiệt Street in downtown Hà Nội.