(VOV) -Former Italian international and World Cup winner Alessandro del Piero is coming to Hanoi on June 13 as brand ambassador for Vespa – the Italian brand of scooter manufactured by Piaggio.

(VOV) - Believed to have been cast in the ancient city of Hue from 1405-1585, an ancient colossal bell regarded as one of the most prized cultural relics of its time will be sold to the highest bidder on June 7-8 in Paris, France.

As many as 26 photos of Vietnamese landscapes and livelihoods by Argentinean artists are being showcased on June 3 in the capital city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

The Miss Tourism International beauty pageant will be held in Vietnam's famous destination Ha Long Bay later this year.

A host of events to celebrate the 250th birth anniversary of Nguyen Du, prominent Vietnamese poet and World Cultural Celebrity (1765 – 2015), will be organised this year, the authorities of central Ha Tinh province told the press in Hanoi on June 2. 

Vietnam will participate in the 7th Vietnamese-European Documentary Film Festival with 10 entered films, announced the Vietnam Central Scientific and Documentary Film Studio on June 3. 

As many as 34 contestants compete in the final round of the Miss Mekong Delta pageant 2015, scheduled to be held in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho from June 1-27. 

The Suoi Tien Tourist Park in District 9 received more than 10,000 guests on June 1, the first day of the 2015 Southern Fruit Festival.

(VOV) - Many of the Van Kieu’s traditional values and customs including their stilt houses have been affected by modern life. 

Two ancient banyans in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre were recognised as Heritage Tree on June 2 by the Vietnam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment. 

(VOV) -It was unveiled at a press conference on June 2 that Vietnamese artists - Hong Anh, Minh Hang and Jennifer Pham – have landed guest roles in a Republic of Korea (RoK) reality TV series.

The French School of Asian Studies (Ecole Francais d'Extreme Orient - EFEO) and the Museum of Fine Arts of Ho Chi Minh City are jointly holding the exhibition 'Vietnam Through a Lens' consisting of 100 photographs selected from a collection of more than 50,000 old photos of the Vietnamese collection at EFEO.

(VOV) - Supermodel Kha My Van is currently featured in an Italian fashion Switch Magazine photo shoot entitled ‘Urban Zen Life’.

(VOV) - Ao Dai (Vietnamese traditional dress) from the collection “My Love, My City” are introduced within the framework of the cultural exchange between Ho Chi Minh City and Busan, the Republic of Korea.

(VOV) -Vietnamese former Tourism Ambassador, Ly Nha Ky garbed in classic costume and posed in a photoshoot on streets in Paris during the Cannes film festival.

I feel honored to celebrate the 69th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Italy and the 42nd anniversary of Italian-Vietnamese relations.

A Vietnam-Republic of Korea (RoK) cultural exchange forum was held in the RoK on May 31 with an eloquent contest themed “ Leaders and leadership” in the Vietnamese and Korean languages.

The executive board of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) in Ho Chi Minh City held a ceremony on June 1 (the fifteenth day of the sixth lunar month) to celebrate Lord Buddha’s 2559th birth anniversary.

The celebration for the first International Day of Yoga will be held at Hanoi’s Quan Ngua Sports Complex on June 21.

(VOV) -On June 1, Doodle for Google 2015 announced Vietnam’s very first Doodle 4 Google winner: 8-year old Le Hieu from southern Dong Nai province, with the doodle ‘Year of the Goat’.

(VOV) -Park Nark-jong, director of the Korean Cultural Centre unveiled at a press conference on June 1 that the centre will organize a four-day animation and short film festival on August 13-16 in Hanoi.

An 132-year-old Bodhi tree in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak was certificated as a heritage tree at a ceremony held on June 1.

An exhibition of new work by two French artists Nadege David and Sandrine Llouquet about the "poetic dimension to our human condition" has opened at Galerie Quynh.

(VOV) -On the occasion of Buddha's 2,559th birthday (May 25) brightly-coloured paper lanterns lined the city streets and pagodas of Hoi An.

A fashion cooperation project between Vietnam and New Zealand was launched on May 29, allowing 20 outstanding students of both countries to work on new collections, according to the New Zealand Embassy.

Rare images of Vietnam mostly taken in the early 20th century are on display at the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum.

An all-day music festival featuring acts from across Southeast Asia to raise awareness about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues will be held in Hanoi next month.

(VOV) - Cua Dinh folk singing is a genre of ceremonial singing which is the original form of Ca Tru folk singing.

“Mo Muong Hoa Binh”, folklore told by Muong ethnics in northern Hoa Binh province, and 20 Mo artists are officially recognised as cultural heritage under the patronage of the Vietnam Federation of UNESCO Associations (VFUA).

(VOV) - It has been unveiled that world renowned global brand Tamsin Cooper has been chosen to serve on the jury of a fashion show sponsored by New Zealand on August 6 in HCM City at the Caravelle Saigon Hotel.