The Ban Flower Festival and the fifth Culture - Sport - Tourism Festival opened in the northern province of Điện Biên on March 12 with a range of activities.

The Foreign Ministry's Culture and UNESCO Department has encouraged Vietnamese artists to present their works to Việt Nam’s embassies and consulate generals worldwide.

In the box office battle of the beasts, King Kong easily conquered Wolverine.

“I love, I share” is the theme chosen to honour the French language through a film festival, concerts and writing contests for International Francophone Day, which falls on March 20.

A mixture of lanterns, traditional music performances, songs and dances by Vietnamese and Korean artists lit up Korean Cultural Day in the ancient city of Hoi An over the weekend.

More than 1,000 voluntary students and two ambassadors of the Earth Hour 2017 campaign last Saturday rode bicycles on several streets in the HCM City’s centre to call on residents to switch off lights and unnecessary electric appliances to save energy.

Đỗ Trần Khánh Ngân, a model from Đồng Nai Province, was crowned Miss Tourism Việt Nam 2017 at the grand finale in HCM City on Friday night.

German pianist Boris Schönleber will perform pieces written by two German composers Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), and Austrian composer Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) at the Goethe Institute on March 12.