Vietnamese puppeteers won first prize at the 8th Petrushka World Puppet Carnival in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

Dozens of works of art and literature by winners of the Hồ Chí Minh Prize and the State Prize in 2016 will be on show in Hà Nội on August 30.

Young film producer Lý Minh Thắng’s latest film project, Mùa Viết Tình Ca (Season of Love), will be released in cinemas on National Day, September 2. 

Architect Hoàng Thúc Hào won the Bùi Xuân Phái Award in the Idea Prize category in 2010. He was the first Vietnamese architect to win SIA-Getz Architecture Prize for Emergent Architecture in Asia in 2016, and also the Vassilis Sgoutas Prize by the International Union of Architects (UIA) in 2017.

Six female artists of the HCM City Fine Arts Association are exhibiting their works at the Korea-Vietnam Joint Exhibition in Gwangju, Korea.

For artist and sculptor Phạm Sinh, his latest solo exhibition is a page in the journal documenting the unforgettable moments of a great journey.

Photos of the American war by the late photojournalist Lâm Tấn Tài, first general chairman of the Việt Nam Photographers Association, are on display at the HCM City Photography Museum.

Frederik Kier, the Senior Vice President of Novo Nordisk – a global healthcare company with headquarter in Denmark- is on a visit to Việt Nam to gain insights of the local fights against diabetes.

More than 20 artists from Việt Nam and other ten Asian countries are joining an exchange programme in northern province of Ninh Bình between August 21 and 24.