The Áo dài fashion show, one of the major events at the ongoing biennial Huế Festival, was held in Huế yesterday evening

Huế Festival 2016, which kicked of last night, offered visitors many traditional cultural performances.

A ring-tailed lemur is captured for sale in Mai Châu District in the northern Hòa Bình Province. Some sell them as pets or even as food despite a wildlife trade ban. -- VNS Photo Việt Thanh

 The HCM City Book Distribution JSC (Fahasa) opened its Fahasa Hạnh Thông Tây Bookshop at the Lotte Mart Gò Vấp Business Centre in HCM City’s Gò Vấp District on Thursday.

The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera will stage the opera The Magic Flute in German over the first weekend of May at the Opera House in HCM City.

Over 200 dancers will stage a flash mob bikini performance tonight during the opening ceremony of a beach festival at Eastern Park in Đà Nẵng, which lasts until May 5.

Several of Vietnam’s top singers will gather to perform at a special concert to pay tribute to the famous composer and songwriter Thanh Tùng, who many consider as the father of Vietnamese pop music.

With lights, dance, music and fireworks, the biennial Huế Festival opened yesterday evening, showcasing a variety of cultural and craft shows performed by artists and artisans from Vietnamese localities and other countries.

Red snappers (cá hồng) caught at Long Hải seafood market in the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu – VNS Photo Việt Thanh