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.

Việt Nam National Opera and Ballet (VNOB) will premiere a contemporary dance entitled Đáy Mắt (In The Eye) – a collaboration by choreographer Bùi Ngọc Quân and musician Trí Minh on August 19 at Hà Nội Opera House.

An experimental exhibition exploring art mixed with technology will open on August 25 in Hà Nội.

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Vietnamese phở has been named the world’s 20^th best food experience by world travel guide book publisher the Lonely Planet.

 Two Vietnamese photographers, Đào Tấn Phát and Lê Đức Toại, have won gold medals at the Third International Circular of Photography “Grand M.S.M Circuit 2018”.