(VOV) -World U10 Champion Anh Khoi (elo 1.912) is seeded No.1 in the U12 category of the 2013 Southeast Asian (SEA) Open Chess Championships, which will take place in Thailand from June 5-14.

A ceremony was held in southern Binh Duong province on May 31 to receive a certificate recognising the statue of Buddha entering Nirvana on the roof of the Hoi Khanh pagoda as the longest example in Asia. 

(VOV) - The second International Tea Festival will take place in Thai Nguyen province from December 8–11 to preserve both the tangible and intangible values of Vietnamese tea.

(VOV) - The top 40 contestants representing the southern region have advanced to the final round of the third Miss Ethnic Vietnam pageant.

The statue of Buddha attaining Nirvana at the Linh Son Truong Tho Pagoda on Ta Cu Mountain, Binh Thuan province has been recognised as “Asia’s longest lying Buddha statue on a mountain top” by the New Delhi-based Asian Book of Records. 

Vietnamese martial artists bagged 11 gold and 11 silver medals, coming first at the 2nd Southeast Asia Vovinam Championships in Siem Reap province, Cambodia. 

(VOV) - The Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists (VAPA) launched its seventh international photo contest in Hanoi on May 30.

(VOV) - A Japanese contemporary art exhibition titled ”Winter Garden” will be held in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from June 8 to July 21.

(VOV) - Vietnamese martial artists have bagged six gold medals in both demonstration and combat events at the ongoing second Southeast Asian Vovinam Championships in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

A ceremony was held at Phat Lon Pagoda in the southern province of An Giang on May 29 to announce the largest Maitreya Buddha statue seated on the mountain peak in Asia. 

(VOV) - The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has officially authorized Vietnam to host the finals of the 2014 Women’s Asian Cup.

(VOV) - Korean star Yoon Eun Hye posed for a Harper's Bazaar photo shoot at the Hanoi Opera House during her trip to Vietnam to attend the opening of a Burberry shop.

(VOV) - Vietnamese athletes have bagged six golds, three silvers and one bronze at the 2013 Taiwan Open Athletics Championships in Taipei, China.

(VOV) -Vietnamese representative Nguyen Truong Son won the Best in Color award on May 27 at the World Style Contest, which was held at the Les Folies Bergere theatre in Paris as part of the 2013 Davines Worldwide Hair Tour.

Nearly 150 Japanese traditional dolls are on display at the Museum of the Cultures of Vietnam’s Ethnic Groups in the northern city of Thai Nguyen as part of activities to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Vietnam-Japan diplomatic ties and greet International Children’s Day on June 1. 

An exhibition of historical photographs, themed “Indochina-France-Vietnam”, opened to the public at the Museum of Living History in Montreau Park, Montreuil city, France. 

(VOV) -The 2013 Southern Fruit Festival, honouring the highest quality products from the nation’s farmers and fruit cultivators, will open in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) on June 1 and run until September 2.

(VOV) - The challenge of preserving Vietnamese values in an ever-changing world was a major topic of a seminar hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in Hanoi on May 28.

(VOV) - Vietnamese-Korean boy Hwang Min Woo, alias Little Psy, arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on May 27 to premiere a new film titled “Saigon Cinderella” co-produced by Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK).  

(VOV) - The 2013 National Muay Championships kicked off in the southern province of Binh Phuoc on May 27.

(VOV) -Two Vietnamese poets Tran Dang Khoa and Nguyen Bao Chan have joined the 12th Val-de Marne International Poetry Festival being held in France from May 24-June 2.

(VOV) - Vietnam has participated in “Germany Development Day 2013” which was held in Berlin on May 25 to show diverse cooperation between Germany and other countries in the fields of culture, diplomacy and economics.

The Heineken Live Access music festival which takes place in Hanoi on June 1 and HCM City on July 27 promises to entertain audiences with a diverse line-up of world musicians and DJs.

(VOV) - LienVietPostBank has won the championship title of an international volleyball tournament in Bac Ninh after a tit-for-tat match against Sichuan of China on May 26.

(VOV) - Young Vietnamese tennis player Ly Hoang Nam beat his Indonesian rival Irfandi Hendrawan 2-1 in the F2 Futures tennis tournament in Bangkok, Thailand, on May 26.

(VOV) - The fifth European-Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival will take place in Hanoi from June 5-14 and Ho Chi Minh City from June 10-29.

(VOV) - A Vietnamese painting entitled “La Marchand de Riz” (The Rice Seller), by Nguyen Phan Chanh, sold for HK$3.03 million (equivalent to VND8 billion) at a weekend auction by Christie’s International in Hong Kong.

(VOV) - Outstanding Vietnamese athletes are taking part in the two-day 2013 Taiwan Open Athletics Championships, which opened in Taipei, China, on May 27.

(VOV) - A Vietnam-RoK cultural exchange forum was held in the RoK on May 26 with a rhetoric contest in Vietnamese and Korean languages.

(VOV) -Top Vietnamese player Le Quang Liem has secured a place at the Chess World Cup in Norway scheduled for this August after finishing fourth at the Asian Continental Chess Championship in the Philippines on May 26.