(VOV) -The largest Buddhist flag of record, which is 25.58x20metres and weighs 60 kilograms,will be exhibited at the 2015 Yen Tu spring festival.

(VOV) - Thi Cam villagers in Xuan Phuong commune of Hanoi’s Tu Liem district gathered at the communal house on the 8th day of the first lunar month to take part in the traditional rice cooking contest.

(VOV) - Seventy of the top professional cyclists from Vietnam and three foreign teams will be on the start line on February 28 for the fifth International Women’s Cycling Tournament (Biwase Cup 2015) in Binh Duong province.

The Vietnam Tennis Federation has called players to prepare for the coming international events.

A traditional ceremony to remove “cay neu” (Tet pole) and open the royal seal was re-enacted in the Imperial Citadel of Hue, central Thua Thien-Hue province on February 25, the seventh day of the first lunar month and the last day of the Tet celebration.

Vietnam’s signature red-and-golden-star flag, traditional long dress (ao dai) and folk music were featured in the Grand Parade of the Limassol Carnival in the Republic of Cyprus on February 22.

Land Saigon's 12-member cycling team will begin its seven-day and 1,000km-long journey from HCM City to Bangkok, Thailand on March 6.

The Vietnamese Olympic, or under-23 (U23), football team’s head coach Toshiya Miura set his sights on securing a seat in the finals of the second Asian Football Confederation (AFC)’s U23 Football Championship 2015.

The northern midland province of Phu Tho launched a festival paying homage to Vietnam’s legendary mother Au Co at her temple in Ha Hoa district on February 25, the seventh day of the first lunar month.

(VOV) - Le Tich Dien or the Ceremonial Ploughing Festival took place in the northern province of Ha Nam on February 25.

(VOV) -American film Boyhood, which has been nominated The Academy Awards or The Oscars, will make its debut in Vietnam on March 6.

(VOV) - After the hectic schedule of New York Fashion Week, Vietnamese models Mau Thanh Thuy and Quynh Chau took some time out to relax and stroll through the streets of the city that never sleeps.

(VOV) - Depression can be debilitating and in some cases, deadly. But photographer Michael Loffer, 26, fought his depression in part by traveling around the globe for three years and taking stunningly magnificent photos.

(VOV) - A spiritual offering of a pair of banh chung cakes weighing in excess of 350kg each was made on February 24 to Hoang Thi Loan – mother of President Ho Chi Minh – on the occasion of the arrival of Lunar New Year spring.

It seemed that all roads led to the Huong (Perfume) Pagoda on February 24, the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.

Only a few days into the Lunar New Year, Vietnamese badminton player Vu Thi Trang received some good news.

(VOV) - Tens of thousands of monks, nuns and Buddhist followers from across the nation have begun the annual spring pilgrimage to the Bai Dinh pagoda at Gia Sinh commune, Gia Vien district in the northern province of Ninh Binh.

Several artists will perform traditional music in three French cities - Paris, Marseilles and Bordeaux - to celebrate the overseas Vietnamese community and the French during the Lunar New Year festival.

(VOV) - The Vietnam Writers’ Association has announced that 550 local and 200 foreign poets from 40 countries around the globe have registered to participate in the Asia Pacific Poetry Festival set for March 2-6 in Hanoi.

(VOV) - Vietnam’s Olympic football team reported to training camp in Hanoi on February 24 to begin preparations for the upcoming 2016 Asian U23 Football Championship qualifiers.

(VOV) - Tens of thousands from throughout the nation gathered for the Dong Da festival in Hanoi on February 23 to commemorate the 226th anniversary of the historic Ngoc Hoi-Dong Da victory.

Tet dishes have special significance as they reflect the Vietnamese tradition of each family member expressing their personal progress, happiness and professional prosperity through the tray of dishes.

Van Thuy Tu temple in Phan Thiet city, southern central Binh Thuan province, is considered the largest museum for whale skeletons in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

Thousands of visitors flocked to the Phat Tich pagoda in the northern province of Bac Ninh for its annual peony festival, held on February 22 (the fourth day of the first lunar month). 

Cultural activities of northern ethnic minority groups were demonstrated at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi on February 22.

The national beach football team will gather in Nha Trang in central Khanh Hoa province from February 25 to March 29 to prepare for the Asian elimination round of the upcoming 2015 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.

(VOV) - A boat racing festival was launched on Ly Son island in the central province of Quang Ngai on February 22 to mark  the 2015 lunar New Year Festival (TET) - the Year of the Goat.

(VOV) -Nick Ut, whose “Napalm girl” picture shocked the whole world, has been listed in a photo book “Behind Photographs” of Tim Mantoani.

(VOV) - Winner of Vietnam’s Next Top Model Hoang Thuy has left deep impression on international audience at a show of famous designer Jeremy Scott in the framework of the ongoing New York Fashion Week.

An exhibition at Hanoi's Heritage Space presents the essence of Vietnamese contemporary ceramics.