Many people flock to Chu Văn An Temple in Thanh Liet Commune, Thanh Tri District every year to attend the new-year writing festival.

Vietnamese people in the Czech Republic are seeking ways to preserve the collection of books and documents about Vietnam left by late Czech linguistic professor Ivo Vasilijev, an expert on Vietnamese studies and a good friend of Vietnam.

The capital city of Hanoi will organise a dragon boat racing festival for the first time from 10:00 to 15:00 on February 24.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese actress and businesswoman Ly Nha Ky recently hosted the family of French film producer Marc Missonnier on her luxurious multimillion dollar yacht.

VOV.VN - Tich Dien (Ploughing) Festival was held in Doi Son commune, Duy Tien district in the northern province of Ha Nam on February 22 marking the traditional beginning of the rice growing season in Vietnam.

A festival dedicated to Mother Au Co – the legendary mother of Vietnam – opened in Hien Luong commune of Ha Hoa district, the northern province of Phu Tho, on February 22 (or the seventh day of the first month of the Year of the Dog).

VOV.VN - A traditional pen-brush opening (Khai But) festival was launched at the memorial site of the Mac Dynasty in Ngu Doan Commune, Kien Thuy District, Haiphong City on February 21st or the 6th day of lunar January.

Book streets and fairs held in cities and towns across Vietnam during the seven-day Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday from February 14 to 20 earned a total income of VND6.4 billion (US$282,000).

The Acoustic Saturday with Benjamin James, an English vocalist, will be held from 9.30pm until late on February 24 at the Snuffbox Speakeasy bar in District 1, HCM City.

VOV.VN - An annual wrestling festival held in Mai Dong Village, Hoang Mai District, Hanoi on February 19-21 (or the 4th-6th of lunar January), has attracted thousands of spectators.

Vietnam made strong impression on visitors at the 15th Sakia Exhibition for Cultural Services, which opened at the El Sawy Culturewheel centre in the Egyptian capital city of Cairo on February 21.

On the occasion of his attendance at APEC Economic Leaders’ Week in Da Nang, the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull sat on a roadside to enjoy a ‘banh mi kep thit’(Vietnamese bread with fried pork) and gave his compliments to such delicious food, which provided a unique insight to the richness of Vietnamese cuisine.

The second Bulgaria Rose and Friends Festival will be held in Hanoi next month with 1,000 rose trees imported from Bulgaria to be displayed.

A ceremony was held to mark the 1978th anniversary of the Hai Ba Trung Uprising at the Hai Ba Trung Temple, a special national relic site, in Hanoi’s Me Linh district on February 21, or the 6th day in the first month of the Year of the Dog. 

The annual love duet singing festival will be organised on February 27 and 28 in Lim town, Noi Due and Lien Bao commune of Tien Du district in the northern province of Bac Ninh.

A spring festival will be held at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism in Hanoi on February 24-25 to promote the rich and diverse cultures of ethnic groups across the country and strengthen national unity.

The Bai Dinh Pagoda Festival officially opened in Gia Vien district in the northern province of Ninh Binh on February 21 (the sixth day of the first lunar month), with the attendance of Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.

French photographer Rehahn plans to build a Co Tu Museum offering information on the ethnic group living in the mountainous areas of Quang Nam province in the centre of the province’s Tay Giang district.

VOV.VN - Miss Universe Vietnam 2017 H’Hen Nie, Miss Vietnam 2014 Ky Duyen, and many other celebrities show off personal styles with various outfits over recent Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

VOV.VN - Giong festival officially opened at the Soc Temple historical relic site in Soc Son district, Hanoi, on the morning of February 21, attracting large numbers of local people and visitors.

VOV.VN - Miss Ocean Vietnam 2017 Le Au Ngan Anh has been invited to perform in “Night of 100 Stars” fashion show in Los Angeles on March 1. 

VOV.VN - Let’s take a glance at Vietnamese celebrities who were born in 1982 and 1994, the Years of the Dog.

Take a peek into the past to see how the cherished traditional Tet looked like. Photos via Flickr/manhhai.

Kyle Michael Nunas, the now Canadian General Consul in Ho Chi Minh City, was one of a few people who had the chance to travel and capture Vietnam in the late 1990s, when the country just started to open to the outside world after a long period of isolation.

VOV.VN -The Dragon Boat Race Festival is one of the most important events of the calendar in Do Son dictrict, Hai Phong, and is held annually on the fourth day of the first lunar month.

VOV.VN -Well-known Vietnamese singer My Tam has met with some of her biggest fans at her house in Danang.

The Yen Tu Spring Festival will open on February 25 (the 10th day of the Lunar New Year), in Uong Bi city, the northern province of Quang Ninh, kicking off the National Tourism Year hosted by the locality.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City’s Book Street has launched a poem festival to mark the new lunar year. 

VOV.VN - There is a saying “Feed a human for 3 years and he will forget you in 3 seconds. Feed a dog for 3 days and he will remember you forever”. The dog has always been considered a faithful animal and was mythologized by the Vietnamese.

Retired police officer Dang Minh Tam is passionate about preserving the artefacts of ethnic groups in the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) region.