VOV.VN - Hundreds of people from across Vietnam sweated it out on the streets of Ngoc Tri Village recently for a competition at the Tran Vu Temple Festival that has roots dating back hundreds of years.

VOV.VN - The French YDA Ciné Club - has unveiled it will screen three Vietnamese short films on April 16 at the La Clef Cinema in Paris.

VOV.VN - A special premiere of ‘White Valentine’ a Vietnamese film that touches on so many issues lesbians face in real life and gives voice and visibility to homosexual women will screen starting April 15 at five AMC Theatres in the US.

VOV.VN - Le Hang-  the second runner-up of the 2015 Miss Universe Vietnam- looked great in sophisticated long dresses (ao dai) made by designer Thuy Nguyen at a recent cultural event held in Phu Quoc islands.

Thai police on April 11 said that it has stepped up security measures on Koh Samui Island to prepare for the country’s traditional Songkran water festival. 

Cambodia has deployed more forces to ensure traffic safety and order from its capital city of Phnom Penh to Siem Reap city in order to prepare for the traditional Choul Chnam Thmey (New Year) festival, especially during the Angkor Sangkran on April 13. 

VOV.VN - The lives of the Ha Nhi ethnic people are closely associated with the forest and brooks. 

Four hundred objects collected from French Indochina will be auctioned in Paris in May.  

A ceremony was held in Hanoi on April 11 to mark Russia’s Cosmonautics Day and the 55 th anniversary of the launch of the first human into orbit (April 12).

A photo exhibition on Vietnam’s seas and archipelagoes is underway in the Polish city of Lodz, providing local visitors an in-depth look at the country’s marine sovereignty. 

VOV.VN -On April 10, hundreds of local and foreign contestants gathered in Hanoi for the first day of casting for Vietnam International Fashion Week 2016.

VOV.VN - Actress Chi Pu appeared at the HTV Awards sporting a not so stylish but casual uneven bob.

VOV.VN - Supermodel Pham Huong looked effortlessly cool at a social event on April 10 in Ho Chi Minh City.

VOV.VN -A backstage video of Hollywood movie "Kong: Skull Island” has been revealed at the MTV Movie Awards 2016. Accordingly, all of the scenes in the video were filmed in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Nguyen Tran Huyen My, former beauty pageant titleholder, and actress Elly Tran took to the catwalk together for the first time in a fashion show themed ‘Love Paradise’ by designer Pham Dang Anh Thu held in Ho Chi Minh City recently.

VOV.VN - In early April, some 300 singers from Russia and neighbouring countries like Moldova and Armenia descended upon Ekaterinburg, Russia for a prestigious international vocal competition.

The Vietnamese Cultural Week in Argentina has wrapped up in the capital city of Buenos Aires with a string of attractive activities.

A music and dance performance encouraging naval soldiers who live far from home took place in Hanoi on April 9.

A Japanese cultural event was held in the northern province of Bac Giang on April 9 by Japanese enterprises in collaboration with the provincial People’s Committee. 

VOV.VN - The 500-year-old pottery village of Chu Dau in Hai Duong province is reviving, as a popular tourist destination.  

VOV.VN - Hanoi’s old quarter has 36 streets and each street is generally associated with a handicraft.

A Tuoi Tre-backed fundraising music show was held in Ho Chi Minh City on April 8, raising a total of VND14 billion (US$625,000) to help people living in Vietnam’s drought-hit regions.

Vietnamese photographers have won top prizes at the second International Salon of Photography Donegal 2016 in Ireland.

VOV.VN -Apart from the annual Lunar New Year Tet Festival, the Vietnamese people also celebrate several other smaller Tets throughout the year.

VOV.VN -Vietnamese model Do Ha has just returned to Hanoi after joining a modelling agency in Milan two months ago, sporting a peculiar new street style look.

The Thai Nguyen College of Economics and Finance in the northern province of Vietnam held a get-together on April 8 to celebrate Lao traditional New Year Bun Pi May.

 A host of events have been arranged in the southern provinces of Soc Trang, Tra Vinh and An Giang to celebrate the traditional Chol Chnam Thmay New Year festival of the Khmer people.

A Laos-Vietnam cuisine and cultural performance exchange will be held at the Laos General Consul in Da Nang in celebration of Lao New Year, Boun Pimai (Pi Mai Lao).

The traditional craft of making banh trang phoi suong (dew-wetted rice paper) in Trang Bang district, Tay Ninh province, has been recognised as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage. 

VOV.VN -  Vietnam’s traditional long dress, known as Ao Dai, has become the symbol of the Vietnamese feminine beauty.  Diego Chula, a Spanish fashion designer, shares his passion to combine the Vietnam’s signature costumes with the modern global taste.