The number of international tourists arriving in Việt Nam reached over 800,000 in July, a 41.2% year-on-year increase, the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism said.

Young filmmakers are called to join Talent Campus, a part of the Hà Nội International Film Festival 2016.

The second International Fingerstyle Guitar Festival was held in Hà Nội and HCM City last week, attracting both Vietnamese and foreign audiences to the performances.

Culture Vulture speaks to guitarist Huang Chia Wei from Chinese Taiwan, founder of festivals involving fingerstyle guitars, including the Việt Nam festival.

Songs and colourful images were the highlight when HCM City’s leading puppet troupe, Nụ Cười (Smile), debuted Aladdin Và Cây Đèn Thần (Aladdin and Magic Lamp) this week.

Private drama troupe TKC will stage a solemn play today based on the life of soldiers to mark the Day for Invalids and Martyrs (July 27).

Two Vietnamese projects have won International Architecture Awards (IAA) in the green design category.

The winners are Vietnamese collective H&P Architects’ Cheering Forestaurant (forest and restaurant) in Hà Nội, and the toigetation (toilet and vegetation) project in the northern Cao Bằng Province.

The culture ministry has decided to facilitate regular drama, chamber music and traditional opera shows at the Hà Nội Opera House beginning this autumn.

Young patients receiving treatment at the National Cancer Hospital will have a chance to enjoy a free performance at the Việt Nam National Drama Theatre on Thursday morning.

Two ethnic Mông minority women carrying bundles of wood they collected on the side of a stream in Mù Căng Chải Commune in the northern province of Yên Bái. – VNA/VNS Photo Phạm Bằng