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Nearly 200 stalls offering traditional and international cakes will be open at the annual Southern Traditional Cakes Festival in the southern city of Cần Thơ from April 25-29.

Kanye West, the once-omnipresent rap superstar who vanished a year and a half ago amid a purported mental breakdown, on Thursday re-emerged to announce not one but two albums.

David Bowie has taken over a subway station in his adopted home of New York, with images of the rock legend plastered throughout and commemorative fare cards issued in his honour.

Seven international teams, including three coming for the first time, and the host will compete in the 2018 Đà Nẵng International Fireworks Festival (DIFF) starting at the end of this month.

The HCM City’s book companies and publishers will organise a series of activities to mark Việt Nam Book Day on April 21 and World Book and Copyright Day on April 23.

People in the capital have made preparations for the upcoming four-day (from April 28 - May 1) holiday celebrating the Reunification Day (April 30) and Labour Day (May 1), and many of them will be traveling. Many tourism companies are reporting a 20 per cent increase in bookings as compared to non-holiday days.

Various cultural activities will be held worldwide to celebrate the Hùng Kings Memorial Day which falls on March 10, 2018, Lunar calendar or April 25, Solar calendar.

The central province of Bình Thuận received 1.35 million tourists in the first quarter of the year, a jump of 14 per cent  compared to the same period last year.