A symphony concert with musicians from the Việt Nam National Academy of Music and famed French conductor Henri Pompidor will be held tonight (Tuesday) at the Grand Concert Hall of the Việt Nam National Academy of Music in Hà Nội to celebrate the 60th anniversary of its founding.

Việt Nam is among the leading countries in the world in terms of dishes cooked from different flowers, such as thiên lý (Telosma cordata), ban (Bauhinia variegata) flowers and many others.

Nigerian afro-pop star Wizkid and South Africa's Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya won top prizes at the 2016 MTV Africa Music Awards in Johannesburg on Saturday.

Lady Gaga rose to fame with her shock-inducing outfits and remains the seventh most followed person on Twitter, but on her sober new album, she admits an unease in the era of social media.

French conductor Laurent Boer, director of Ensemble Polyphonique de Choisy-le-Roi, and choir members of the ensemble will hold a concert in HCM City Opera House on October 29.

To your health

Nine films from Peru, Argentina, Cuba, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Panama, Uruguay and Venezuela -- whose embassies are all part of the festival organising committee -- will be screened during the fourth annual Latin American Film Festival from October 24-29 in Hà Nội.

Hà Nội-based artist Nguyễn Minh Nam, whose works reflect cultural issues, is showing a collection of his latest paintings at the Craig Thomas Gallery in HCM City.

As molecular gastronomy is a very new conception for most of Vietnamese people, French chef Raphael Szurek of the Hà Nội’s fine-dining French Grill Restaurant has presented a workshop on the theme for a group of local food bloggers and gastronomy reporters.