An exhibition of 200 photos and documents of the Nghê – a sacred animal that guards temples and communal houses – has been in display at the central city’s Fine Arts Museum, promoting the unique feature of the traditional art of Việt Nam that had been preserved in the community for centuries.

Japanese popular singer Ueno Yuuka, who was appointed the Goodwill Ambassador for the 16th annual Hội An-Japan Cultural Exchange, will join environmental protection activities in Cẩm Thanh commune as part of the annual event on August 17-19.

An arts programme of music, poems and plays will be held at the Hanoi Opera House on August 26 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of renowned Vietnamese poets and married couple Lưu Quang Vũ and Xuân Quỳnh.

The HCM City Museum on August 16 celebrated its 40th anniversary with an exhibition featuring the history of the South from 1698 to 1945.

The Food and Tourism Week opens today in the Golden City area in Long Xuyên City in southern province of An Giang.

Miss Universe Việt Nam 2017 H’Hen Niê has been named the ambassador for Room to Read, a global non-profit organisation focused on literacy and girls’ education. 

A festival featuring ví and giặm folk singing of Nghệ Tĩnh, named an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, will kick off on Friday in the central province of Hà Tĩnh.

Legendary Soviet children's writer and creator of the USSR's most popular cartoon characters Eduard Uspensky died in his home in the Moscow suburbs at the age of 80 late on Tuesday.

Previously hidden archaeological sites have emerged in fields across Britain after the hot, dry summer exposed new cropmarks, the Historic England agency said on Wednesday. Aerial photographs have exposed patterns which reveal the sites of prehistoric settlements, burial mounds and Iron Age, Bronze Age and Roman farms.