Hoàng Thu Thảo won the best national costume award and was among the top 10 at Miss Tourism International 2016, which was held on December 18 in Shanghai, China.

The French publishers of a book of "lost" Vincent Van Gogh sketches on Monday threatened legal action against a Dutch museum that has questioned the authenticity of the works.

Circus on ice shows by artists from Ukraine will be performed at 21 cities and provinces throughout the country for the first time from December 23.

With the ongoing trend of hotpots, there has been an explosion in the variety of this communal soup served in eateries across the country, and new star chefs have emerged in this category. The shrimp hotpot created by Cúc comprises broth made by boiling pork bones; different kinds of local vegetables and shrimp, which is boiled before being added to the broth.

Australian star Nicole Kidman says her experience as the mother of adopted children meant she closely related to her character in the movie Lion, tipped as an Oscar favourite.

A new printed monthly Vietnamese magazine specializing in mathematics will be published from January 2017.

Lawrence Manley Colburn, a helicopter gunner in the US Army during the war in Việt Nam, who helped end the massacre of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese villagers by U.S. troops at Mỹ Lai, has died at the age of 67, reported the Associated Press.

The latest blockbuster episode in the "Star Wars" anthology dominated weekend box offices in North America, humbling another popular Disney film, "Moana," according to industry estimates.