Hanoi will hold the fourth dragon dance festival this Saturday, as part of a series of cultural activities to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the city's liberation on October 10.

The classical ballet Coppelia choreographed by Johanne Jakhelln Constant of Norway will be restaged by the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) at HCM City's Opera House on October 9 after two successful premiere nights in August.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the online newspaper Vnexpress will promote Vietnam's beauty with a contest focusing on landscapes and slices of daily life, said deputy minister Vuong Duy Bien.

Vietnam, with a young population and increasingly wealthy and growing middle class, was a potential market of 90-million customers, said Thomas Loidl, Austrian Ambassador to Vietnam during a Austria-Vietnam business meeting in Hanoi on September 29.

The New York-based Institute for Vietnamese Culture and Education (IVCE) will screen several documentaries on Vietnam at universities in the US next month.

Vietnam will have to scale a huge mountain in its semi-final match in the women's football competition at the Asian Games (ASIAD) in Incheon, the Republic of Korea on September 29.

Runner Quach Thi Lan on September 28 won her first silver medal for Vietnam at the 17th Asian Games (ASIAD) in Incheon, the Republic of Korea.

A Make in India campaign launched by Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra in New Delhi on September 25 was immediately felt in Hanoi with the start of an India-Vietnam trade and investment programme. 

Economic and trade relations between Vietnam and Egypt remained modest and failed to match the potentials of both countries.

(VOV) -Vietnam has gained a trade surplus of US$2.5 billion in the first nine months of 2014, a report from the General Statistics Office (GSO) revealed.