Vietnam Television Film Centre (VFC) held a press conference yesterday to introduce the centre’s latest TV series Silence of the Abyss.

A fee will be imposed on songs listed on karaoke machines across the country by July 2017, according to an announcement made by the Recording Industry Association of Vietnam (RIAV).

The Swedish Academy has warned that Nobel literature laureate Bob Dylan has until June 10 to deliver the traditional Nobel lecture, in order to receive the eight million kronor (US$910,000) that comes with the prize.

Legendary sci-fi director Luc Besson revealed Tuesday he has been thinking about making his latest film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets since he was 10.

Dancer Hà Tứ Thiên graduated from Việt Nam Dance College and is a second-year student at Hà Nội Academy of Theatre & Cinema’s Choreograph Department. He won Gold Medal with a solo solo Tễu performance at last year’s Quảng Bình dance festival, which included dancers from Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand.

Visitors to HCM City will have a chance to pose for photos at the Wax Museum of Vietnamese Artists, known informally as Madame Tussauds Việt Nam, which is scheduled to open early next month.

The fourth HCM City Biennale Art Exhibition for Young Artists will be held at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum next month.

The annual Vietnam International Travel Mart themed Hà Nội will be organised at the Friendship Culture Palace between April 6 and 9 gathering more than 650 travel enterprises from 43 localities in Việt Nam and 24 other countries and territories.

The second National Tài Tử Music Festival will take place in Bình Dương New City in Bình Dương Province from April 8-12.