French artist Guilhem Desq will stage a solo performance at the French cultural center L'Espace in Hanoi on January 19, starting at 8 pm, to introduce hurdy gurdy, a thousand-year-old musical instrument, to Hanoi’s audience.

Singapore-based venture capital fund Insignia Ventures Partners has inked an agreement with Vietnam's Topica Founder Institute (TFI), which runs an idea-stage startup accelerator program, to invest at least US$50,000 in each graduate founder of the TFI program.

Vietnam will likely have the fifth air carrier in the years to come as local tour operator Vietravel looks to develop its own carrier, called Vietravel Airlines, which will be headquartered in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, said Nguyen Quoc Ky, general director of the firm.

The HCM City Ballet will revive its contemporary dance work Café Saigon in the Saigon Opera House on January 19. It was first created last summer in collaboration with the Gotra Dance Company from Maastricht in the Netherlands. 

Domestic and foreign enterprises have increased investments in the electric scooter business, following the increasing popularity of electric scooters in major cities.

More than 15,000 people took part in the Lawrence S. Ting 2019 charity walk in Phu My Hung Urban Area, District 7, HpCMC on January 12.

Street lights had been turned on. Yet in a house in District 3, the meeting still went on, discussing blueprints and data relevant to the construction plan for Rome complex, a new symbol of the center of Thu Thiem urban area.

A theater performance titled “HISTOIRES”, which is a breathtaking play inspired by oral lore and a beautiful travel through different eras and places, will take place at the Youth Theatre in Hanoi on January 12, starting at 8 p.m.

Cau Vang (Golden Bridge) at Sun World Ba Na Hills tourist site in Danang City has been named the most favorite check-in destination in Vietnam in 2018 at WeChoice Awards.

A new production of the operetta The Merry Widow, the ballet Rite of Spring, revivals of the opera Der Freischutz and the ballets Café Saigon, Giselle and Cinderella–the HBSO has taken the unusual step of announcing its program for almost the whole of 2019.