Literature transformed what was to be a short meeting to schedule a tour of Kontum into a four-hour conversation. Once we found out we shared a love for books, myself and Huyh the operator of a travel company in the central highlands, spent hours citing and quoting authors.

HCM City will launch a celebration of National Poetry Day, falling on the 15th day of the first lunar month on February 18-19.

Forty years ago, the northern border area of Việt Nam witnessed a fierce attack by the Chinese army. Between February 17 and March 18, 1979, the army pushed deep into Vietnamese territory in the provinces of Quảng Ninh, Lạng Sơn, Cao Bằng, Hà Giang, Lào Cai and Lai Châu. The Chinese forces made it as far as 50 kilometres into Việt Nam in some places, even reaching Cao Bằng Town, Tài Hồ Xìn and Phố Lu.

Pig racing will take place everyday from now to February 24 in Mường Châu Village, Ba Vì District on the outskirts of Hà Nội.

Thousands of pilgrims and tourists flocked to the Temple of Mother Goddess in the northern mountainous province of Lạng Sơn on Thursday to attend a festival dedicated to the Goddess. Among the tourists, hundreds were from China.

Pianists Trần Thị Tâm Ngọc and Phạm Quỳnh Trang of the Mây Piano Duo will perform a special concert next month at the French Cultural Centre, L’Espace, in central Hà Nội.

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Forget romantic dinners and roses, the place to be on Valentine’s Day is Zagreb’s Museum of Broken Relationships, a paean to personal objects and stories of heartbreak.

Tết (Lunar New Year) this year provided a memorable experience for my family and friends as we experienced the daily life of the Thai ethnic group in Pù Luông Nature Reserve in the central province of Thanh Hóa, about 150 kilometres from the capital.

The Yên Tử Spring Festival 2019 has started with thousands of people flocking to attend one of the country’s most popular spiritual and cultural events in the northern province of Quảng Ninh.

Private film companies in HCM City sunk large amounts of money into movies for release during the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday with high ticket sales, while theatres saw less crowds.

A lonely pine tree on a hillside in the Central Highlands province of Lâm Đồng that become a tourist hotspot is no longer free to visit, a change that has drawn criticism from tourists and locals alike.

Hot air balloons flew in the clear blue sky over Mộc Châu Plateau early this morning, marking the launch of the second International Hot Air Balloon Festival in the northern mountainous province of Sơn La.

The Friends of Vietnam Heritage (FVH), in collaboration with Zo Project, continues to host a craft workshop on dó (poonah) paper on Saturday, February 16.

FILM Storyteller by Heritage Space will present a documentary To be and To Have (Être et avoir) by French director Nicolas Philibert on Saturday, February 16.

Run4Self – a running community, will host the free Hoàng Thành Half Marathon on Sunday.

Mozart’s The Magic Flute will be staged at 8pm on March 31 at the HCM City Opera House at 7 Lam Sơn Square in District 1.

Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World"), often known as the New World symphony, will be performed by the HCM City symphony orchestra at the city’s Opera House at 8pm at 7 Lam Sơn Square in District 1 on March 9.