Electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre says he will perform in Israel next month in a concert to publicise the plight of the shrinking Dead Sea.

Game of Thrones returns for its season seven premiere on July 16, HBO announced Thursday in an elaborate marketing stunt which elated and bemused fans of the hit fantasy show.

I had heard that the Tràng An complex was one of most attractive natural beauty sites in Việt Nam, but my recent trip there surpassed all expectations.

When we arrived at the site, about 95 kms south of Hà Nội, we took a boat to Suối Tiên Temple.

An exhibition that opened this week at Hà Nội’s Fine Arts Museum depicts lacquer paintings depicting the Vietnamese practices related to belief in the Mother Goddesses of Three Realms, which was recognised a few months ago by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

The central city of Tam Kỳ and Tam Thanh commune has launched the community-based art village as part of a pilot project of tourism development in the fishing village.

Students of the Ví Dầu Drama Troupe are preparing to stage new shows to celebrate the troupe’s fifth anniversary.    

The Embassy of Canada, in collaboration with the Soul Live Project, will organise “A Jazzy Night” concert featuring Athésia, a Canadian-Haitian-Creole singer, on March 18.

The film Dạ Cổ Hoài Lang (Night Drumbeats Cause Longing for Absent Husband), a production about traditional Vietnamese culture by director Nguyễn Quang Dũng, will be released in cinemas this month.

Vietnamese physicist and painter Nguyễn Đình Đăng will lead a talk on “The Art of Oil Painting: Rise and Fall” at The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre on March 11.