A “Vietnamese Cuisine Day” was recently held in the Slovakian capital of Bratislava with the aim of introducing Vietnamese traditional dishes to international friends. 

VOV.VN - A grand music festival will take place at Ecopark in Hanoi on March 27 with the participation of world leading DJ Steve Aoki, Ummet Ozcan, Headhunterz and Quintino as well as local ones like Huy DX, Looze, Minh Tri and Romain Rou. 

VOV.VN - The “Music story of the Old Quarter” will start at 8 pm on May 8th at the Center of the Old Quarter’s culture exchange in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - The first Hoi An International Food Festival 2016 “Taste the World” was opened in the evening of March 14. On this occasion, delicious dishes were offered to local and international visitors by famous chefs from 12 nations around the globe and Vietnam. 

Vietnam is waiting for guidance from UNESCO in helping to reclassify xoan singing from being a world’s intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent protection, to simply being an intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

999 Ochna integerrima trees were planted at Hoa Hien Pagoda and its vicinity in the Yen Tu relic site, northern Quang Ninh province, on March 12. 

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST) has unveiled it has added seven new events to the national list of intangible cultural heritages.

VOV.VN - One of the toughest adventure races in the world – Tu Lan Adventure Race 2016 – will get underway on April 28 in Quang Binh Province, according to an announcement by Oxalis, the race organizer.

Each year Thailand's Yala province holds the ASEAN Ground Barred Dove Festival as its major cultural event, which attracts a great number of visitors, not only from various parts of Thailand but also from other ASEAN countries.

VOV.VN -After their arrival in Vietnam last weekend, T-ara Eun Jung and Qri from Korean girl pop group wore Ao Dai (Vietnamese traditional dress) to attend a meeting with their fans at a studio in Ho Chi Minh City on March 14.

Reporter Viet Van from the Lao Dong (Labour) daily newspaper has won an Honourable Mention in the photo competition “Same but Different” in the US for his work named “The room”.

The signature spring festival of Dien Bien, or Hoa Ban Festival, beg​an on March 13night in Dien Bien city with hundreds of local performers and international visitors in attendance.

VOV.VN - A string of diverse activities are taking place in the Central Highland province of Dak Lak as part of annual Don Village Festival in Krong Na Commune, Buon Don District.

VOV.VN - The Khmer have developed many dances for different occasions which reflect their creativity, aesthetic sense, and cultural and social values.

Disfigured kitchenware, stained and wet books and flash lights are among the items left behind by fierce typhoons that have hit in the central region of the country.

The beauty of the central coastal province of Quang Ngai, homeland of the Hoang Sa Flotilla, has been featured through 150 art works at a photographic exhibition which opened in Hanoi on March 12.

A series of seven Vietnamese films will be screened for free at the National Cinema Centre (NCC), 87 Lang Ha street, Hanoi on March 14 and 15.

VOV.VN - Hairdresser Michael Barnes, of London hairstyling fame, will appear along with supermodels Pham Huong and Ha Anh on March 23 at a free public fashion event of five emerging local designers in HCM City. 

VOV.VN - Here’s our choice for eight top female celebrities who look great in Ao Dai:

VOV.VN - A group of local Vietnamese has launched an organization to introduce and support the Korean culture wave of hallyu, which has been earning widespread popularity across Vietnam.

VOV.VN - In Vietnam, the custom of chewing betel and areca nuts dates back to the reign of the Hung Kings and has spread nationwide. In the southern region, the custom has its own character, reflecting local life and culture.

VOV.VN - The cast and crew of Hollywood movie Kong: Skull Island will come to Tuan Chau Island in the northern province of Quang Ninh on March 16, to start filming at Ha Long Bay on the largest motion picture ever to be filmed in the country

The Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications (VNPT) spend VND1 billion (US$45,000) on the 2016 Hue Festival under an agreement signed in the central city on March 11.

Authorities of the central province of Quang Tri on March 11 made a fact-finding trip to a tunnel which was recently unearthed at Cua Tung border station. 

A press centre was inaugurated in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien on March 11 to serve domestic and foreign reporters who cover the 2016 Dien Bien Ban Flower Festival.

VOV.VN - Save the date and get your tickets right now! March 19, 2016, at the L'Espace - Centre Culturel Francais de Hanoi, Noga and Patrick Bebey, two great artists, get together for a concert.

More than 12 new titles of ancient books featuring the history of South Vietnam have been published by the Tre (Youth) Publishing House to celebrate the house’s 35th birthday.

The ninth Hue Festival 2016 will be held from April 29 to May 4, honouring cultural and historical values of the former capital city.

One of the country’s largest festivals, the Quan The Am (Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva) festival in Da Nang city, will be held on March 25-27 at the Quan The Am Pagoda in Hoa Vang district.

The Military Theatre will debut a new stage production based on a beloved Russian novel entitled The Dawns Here Are Quiet by Boris Lvovich Vasilyev.