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Vietnamese musicians Nguyên Lê and Ngô Hồng Quang have been nominated for Echo Jazz 2018, a prestigious jazz award hosted by the ACT Music recording company.

Swiss chocolate maker Lindt & Spruengli is seeking to lure more sweet-toothed consumers in Japan, China, South Africa, Brazil and Russia, where the group said Tuesday it enjoys "enormous potential".

Young people are taking part in special projects that replicate traditional Vietnamese clothes worn by royalty of various dynasties. 

Overseas Vietnamese Trần Nữ Yên Khê is a design artist for many movies such as Norwegian Wood - an official nominee at the Golden Lion International Film Festival - and Eternity.  She spoke about the role of art design in a film.

An exhibition on the history of Việt Nam’s imperial examinations through documentary heritage of the world shows how studying and examinations were regarded and instituted by kings.

The culture ministry yesterday announced that the recent construction at Cái Hạ Mountain inside Tràng An Heritage Site in the northern province of Ninh Bình by a local tourism company violated the Culture Heritage Law.

Around 148 new books by Vietnamese and international authors have been released this month as part of Tháng 3 sách Trẻ (March Youth Books) programme.

A number of classic Vietnamese films will be screened for free to celebrate 65 years since the day President Hồ Chí Minh founded Việt Nam’s revolutionary cinema.

Đỗ Trịnh Hoài Nam from Hà Nội has been selected as designer of the year 2017 at the fifth annual Áo dài Festival being held in HCM City.

A film on French playwright and director Marine Bachelot Nguyen’s Les Ombres Et Les Lèvres (Gays and Lesbians), a production on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Việt Nam, will be screened in HCM City on Tuesday's night.

Journalists flooded Iran's National Museum on Monday for the arrival of more than 50 artworks from the Louvre -- the first major show by a Western museum in the country's history.

A set of West Lake shrimp cakes is colourful and eye-catching. Before they enjoy the taste, gourmets can be fascinated by the visual harmony of red shrimps, yellow fried cakes and green herbs such as lettuce, sprouts and basil.

Oscar-winner Frances McDormand had her statuette stolen at a post-show party by a man who allegedly snatched it from her table before he was arrested, police and witnesses said on Monday.

South Korean choreographer Chun Yoo-oh will stage a contemporary dance based on Truyện Kiều (The Tale of Kiều), the masterpiece by the great poet Nguyễn Du, at the HCM City Opera House this weekend.

Photos depicting the friendship between Late Commander Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Vietnamese leaders and people are on display at an exhibition in Hà Nội.

About 3,000 people took part in a parade featuring the áo dài (traditional long dress) yesterday at the Nguyễn Huệ pedestrian street in HCM City.

The Vietnamese film Ở Đây Có Nắng (Here Comes The Sun) will compete at the 6th Seoul Guro International Kids Film Festival 2018 (GUKIFF) from May 10 to 17.