The 2015 Sa Pa Culture and Tourism Week opened on April 30 in Sa Pa town, northern Lao Cai province, amid the cheerful celebrations marking the 40 th anniversary of national reunification.

(VOV) - As many as 5,000 artists on April 30 participated in an art program in Ho Chi Minh city  to mark the 40th anniversary of southern liberation and national reunification.

Kyoichi Sawada, a Japanese photographer with United Press International, received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his pictures of the Vietnam War.

The Hanoi Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has implemented a number of projects to preserve the city’s intangible cultural heritages, including a project carried out from 2014-2015 to review the city’s intangible cultural heritages and apply effective conservation methods. 

(VOV) -The 4th Vietnam International Choir Competition was officially opened in the ancient town of Hoi An, on April 29, by the Quang Nam provincial People’s Committee in collaboration with Germany-based InterKultur Organisation.

Some 100 jewelry items, many dating back to the Bronze Age, are on display in the central town of Hue.

Australia's team, Howard and Sons, won the 2015 Danang International Fireworks Competition for its fireworks and musical performance at the festival called, "The Symphony of Colours."

(VOV) -Some of Norway's top orchestral musicians and internationally famed opera artists like Siri Torjesen, Magnus Staveland, and Cho Hae Ryong will join the HBSO Symphony Orchestra and Choir for concerts at the HCM City Opera House on May 8 and 9.

The Hue Craft Village Festival, which artisans from localities across the country attend to display their handicraft skills, opened yesterday evening in the former feudal capital city of Hue.

(VOV) -The 2015 Danang International Fireworks Competition kicked off on the evening of April 29 with more than 30,000 revellers in attendance, featuring the pyrotechnic and special effect displays of three international teams.

(VOV) -Xoan singing is a typical cultural product of Phu Tho province, home to the 18 dynasties of Hung Kings, the legendary founders of Van Lang – the first known State of Vietnam.

Japanese war photographer Ishikawa Bunyo, 77, who has visited Vietnam countless times over the last 40 years since the war ended, says his former "battlefield" has seen tremendous development in recent years.

A photo book titled “Royal Hue: Heritage of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam” was released in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue on April 28.

This week, Vietnamese will enjoy a six-day national holiday from April 28 to May 3.

More than 20 foreign correspondents who had covered the Vietnam War that ended four decades ago have arrived in Ho Chi Minh City for an event organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to mark the 40th anniversary.

(VOV) -A picture of Hung Kings, which is assembled by 3.258 square blocks, has been recognised as the largest of its kind in Vietnam by the Vietnam Record Book Centre (Vietkings).

(VOV) -As many as 42 beautiful photos of Vietnamese people are being displayed at an exhibition in Hanoi and being sold online to raise funds for Vietnamese children.

The Cuban magazine Resumen Latinoamericano y del Terner Mundo has recently released a special issue on the late Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh to mark his 125th birth anniversary, which falls on May 19.

Pho Hien, the land once a bustling port town in the north hundreds years ago, was brought back to its glorious past through a special art performance programme.

(VOV) - Mrs Asia USA Sonya Suong Dang along with supermodels Ngoc Tinh and Pham Huong on April 26 joined in a street festival at Dong Hoi City in Quang Binh province.

(VOV) - Miss Vietnam 2012 Dang Thu Thao took to the catwalk for the first time in a fashion show recently held in Ho Chi Minh City.

Streets and parks in HCM City will be alive with festivities in celebration of Reunification Day (April 30).

More than 10 paintings and sculptures made on the subject of war by artists from across the country are on display in downtown Hanoi.

A music performance praising the traditional friendship between Vietnam and China was held in northernmost Ha Giang province on April 25.

Project Runway Vietnam runners-up Chau Chan Hung and Ha Hong Lam will participate in the 2015 Asia New Generation Fashion Designer Award in Singapore from May 13 to 17.

(VOV) - Vietnam Television (VTV) has made what it has called a significant investment in licensing, producing and promoting a new sport game show in Vietnam entitled – Unlimited-Sasuke Vietnam – based upon the successful US version called American Ninja Warrior.

The value of gong culture, a distinctive feature of the Central Highlands and a piece of world intangible cultural heritage, is vividly cherished through a festival kicked off in the regional province of Lam Dong on April 24.

Epics passed down many generations of the Bahnar ethnic minority community in the Central Highland province of Gia Lai were awarded a certificate recognising them part of the national intangible heritage on April 24. 

A once-thriving Pho Hien (Hien street) in Red River Delta Hung Yen province is documented in a book released on April 24. 

The South African team, newcomers to the 2015 Danang International Fireworks Competition, will perform the curtain-raiser on April 28, said the organising committee at a media briefing on April 24.