(VOV) -Beer lovers in the capital city will have the chance to savour nearly 50 different Belgian draft beers and a variety of traditional cuisines at a Belgian beer festival scheduled to take place at the American Club, 21 Hai Ba Trung street in October.

Over recent years, the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang has undertaken a number of measures with joint efforts from levels and sectors to protect and uphold the value of the local traditional art of Then singing.

Researcher Giang Quan, who has devoted his entire life to studying Hanoi, received the “Bui Xuan Phai – Love for Hanoi” award in the capital on September 23.

Vietnamese and American distinctive food and cooking methods are at the centre of a social gathering held in Ho Chi Minh City’s Vietheritage restaurant on September 22.

(VOV) - The Bo Y have the smallest population of the 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam. About 3,000 Bo Y people live in a few hamlets in Quan Ba and Dong Van district in the northern border province of Ha Giang.

(VOV) - Make-up artists were instructing contestants of the Miss Universe 2015 beauty pageant on how to properly apply their make-up in a recent get-together.  

Vietnamese and American artists will tour together to perform a dance project in Hanoi, northern province of Ha Long and HCM City on September 25 and 27.

(VOV) - A Vietnam-Singapore friendship concert, co-performed by the Saigon Philharmonic Orchestra (SPO) and Singaporean artists, is slated to get underway in Ho Chi Minh City Academy of Music on September 25.

(VOV) -A short film ‘David And Luisa’ directed by renowned Vietnamese filmmaker Bui Trung Hai has carried off the Silver Remi Award for a Dramatic Short Film at the 48th Houston International Film Festival in the US.

Vietnam’s land, people and cultural identities have been featured during Vietnam Day in Venice, Italy, fascinating Italian friends and overseas Vietnamese (OV) in the country.

(VOV) -Miss Vietnam 2010 Ngoc Han has served as the leading model for a fashion show in Japan that exhibited the works of renowned Vietnamese fashion designer Minh Hanh.

(VOV) - The Hanoi Days programme was officially launched at Et Cetera Theatre in Moscow on September 21 under the framework of the signed agreements between the two capital cities to strengthen friendship ties.

(VOV) - Thousands gathered in Melbourne, Australia to kick-off the Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations with the light-up of iconic lanterns amidst the backdrop of thunderous sounds of firecrackers and roaring lions. 

The directors of two Vietnamese films which, for the first time ever, have been selected in the same year for the Busan International Film Festival, slated to run next month, have revealed how ready they are to share their stories and promote works of the independent Vietnamese film sector.

(VOV) - Miss Vietnam contest was launched since 1988 and is held biennially. Let’s have a look at the fourteen Miss Vietnam winners over the past twenty-eight years

Vietnamese high school students will be introduced to Maori art and culture during the New Zealand Education and Culture Roadshow, which runs until September 25.

(VOV) - A Vietnam festival known as Vietnam Festa Kanagawa held recently in Yokohama city introduces Vietnam’s culture, arts, music, fashion and cuisine. A gallery of photos: 

The annual Vietnam International Fashion Fair is running in HCM City's Tan Binh Exhibition and Convention Centre.

The country's leading archaeologists met over the weekend during a 3-day conference held in Hue City, which included announcements describing new archaeological discoveries.

(VOV) - “Making paper masks, enjoying the Mid-Autumn Festival” is a project run by painter Trang Thanh Hien and students of the Vietnam University of Fine Arts. 

As always there’s a wide choice of moon cakes available in Hanoi for the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival.

Singing groups from across the country will gather to celebrate the fifth National Festival of the Traditional Then Singing of Tay, Nung and Thai ethnic groups, which will take place in the northern province of Tuyen Quang from September 24 to 26.

Star-shaped lanterns, paper masks, tin-made ships, lion heads and paper doctors are traditional toys still sold in Hanoi on the occasion of the Full-Moon Festival.

The first Tam Giac Mach Flower Festival will be organised in the northwest province of Ha Giang from November 13-15.

(VOV) -The Goethe Institut will present Beethoven’s 10 sonatas for violin and piano in four recitals by violinist Nguyen My Huong and pianist Dao Trong Tuyen from September through December. 

The second runner-up of 2015 Miss Ao Dai Vietnam beauty contest, Nguyen Thi Le Quyen would be representing at Miss Grand International 2015 and Miss Supranational 2015 beauty pageants.

Hungarian dance troupe 4 For Dance will perform in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi bringing a unique style of combining traditional folk dance with virtuoso rhythm and a lot of humour.

(VOV) -Welcome to Vietnam, a video clip by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which introduces beautiful landscapes, friendly people, traditional culture, and delicious food of the country has been launched to the internet recently.

(VOV) - A New Zealand’s culture and education promotion programme will be implemented on September 17-25 as part of activities to mark 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties between New Zealand and Vietnam. 

Ho Chi Minh City’s streets and markets are especially colorful these days with lanterns and moon cake boxes laid out for the Mid-Autumn Festival, or Trung Thu, which is just around the corner.