Pop rockers The 1975 stole the show at British pop music's annual celebration on Wednesday, winning the coveted Best Album Brit award with US singer Pink also honoured.

A new production of Porgy and Bess -- the classic set in a poor, black neighborhood in the American south -- will open the Metropolitan Opera's next season, the New York company announced Wednesday.

The HCM City Culture and Arts Publishing House has released a series of five new books featuring seas and islands of Việt Nam.

Eight months ago, local authorities in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế announced a plan to make Huế the food capital of Việt Nam. On Tuesday, they carried out the first step.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism presented the National Intangible Heritage certificate for the Cầu Ngư (fish-worshipping) festival to the central city of Đà Nẵng in a ceremony on Wednesday, February 20. The ceremony becomes the latest of seven National Intangible Heritage items approved by the ministry in 2019.

A  solemn worship ceremony dedicating herbalist Hải Thượng Lãn Ông Lê Hữu Trác (1720-1791) was organised at a temple honoring him in Ninh Kiều District, southern province of Cần Thơ.

The Ministry of Health has launched the 2019 Việt Nam Medical Film Days in Hà Nội as part of activities to celebrate the 64^th Việt Nam Physician Day on February 27.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta City of Cần Thơ has launched a plan to promote cultural diplomacy in 2019.

Vice Chairman of Cần Thơ City’s People’s Committee, Trương Quang Hoài Nam, expressed a wish to partner with the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Việt Nam (ICHAM) in fashion and tourism, during a local working session with its Chairman Michele D’Ercole on Tuesday.