Composer and music producer Nguyễn Quốc Trung, who is also director of Việt Nam’s biggest international music festival – Monsoon Music Festival (MMF) – has been invited to attend the on-going music business event Mu:CON in South Korea.

Actress Lan Phương, 35, won the Impressive Actress title at the VTV Awards 2018 for her role in Cả Một Đời Ân Óan (Life of Love and Feud). The drama also won the title of Impressive TV Series. The VTV Awards are held annually to honour remarkable programmes and figures who appeared on Việt Nam Television channels during the year. 

Việt Nam won one bronze and one encouragement prize at the 12th Toyota Dream Car Art Contest.

President Hồ Chí Minh’s Đường Kách Mệnh (The Revolutionary Path) has been translated into Italian and published under the title La Via Della Rivoluzione in Italy.

A concert titled Mexico and Vietnam: Notes of Friendship will be held at the Hanoi Opera House at 8pm, on Friday (September 14) to celebrate the 208th anniversary of Mexico’s Independence.

Phương My will become the first Vietnamese designer to open Vancouver Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2019 which will be held on September 17-23.

English singer and actor Shayne Ward will perform together with Vietnamese artists at a concert in Hà Nội on October 6.

Vietnamese singer Vũ Cát Tường, who is popular among young Vietnamese music fans with hit songs like Don’t You Go, Vết Mưa (Trace of Rain) or Ngày Hôm Qua (Yesterday), will perform at the Asia Song Festival to be held at Busan Asiad Main Stadium in South Korea on October 2-3.

Search and rescue workers were actively seeking Sunday a German pop star who went missing while on a cruise off Canada's coast, the Royal Canadian Navy said.