(VOV) - The six final contestants in the Vietnam’s Next Top Model 2012 competition were made up as Japanese girls during the programme’s twelfth episode broadcast on November 4 on Vietnam Television. 

As many as 168 ancient artefacts featuring history and culture of Vietnam will be showcased at the Kyushu National Museum of Japan in the second quarter of 2013.

(VOV) - Three of Vietnam’s short documentaries will be screened at 13 famous universities in the US this month.

(VOV) -The Vietnamese U-19 team were beaten 0-4 by Uzbekistan in the first match of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-19 Championships, which opened in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on November 5.

(VOV) - More than 1,000 people of the Cham ethnic minority group gathered at the Kate-Ramuwan Festival in Ho Chi Minh City on November 4. 

(VOV) - The Hue Traditional Craft Festival 2013, aiming to develop craft villages and expand tourism, will be held from April 27 to May 1, 2013.

(VOV) - The Ho Chi Minh City Cultural Heritage Association, in co-ordination with Vietnam Heritage Magazine, is displaying 100 photographs selected from the 2,890 entries for the Vietnam Heritage 2012 photography in the Mekong Delta province of Can Tho. 

Vietnam's top chess player Le Quang Liem has moved up five places from 46th to 41st in the world rankings, according to the latest announcement of the World Chess Federation.

Top Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has dropped one step to 11th place in the latest world rankings, announced by the World Badminton Federation.

(VOV) - Eleven Red River Delta cities and provinces will take part in National Tourism Year 2013 on the theme “Red River Civilization” and activities scheduled to take place during the year will be officially announced in January 2013.

(VOV) - The National Vovinam Club Cup 2012 tournament opened in the Central Highland province of Dak Lak on November 2.

Two Vietnamese films “Thien menh anh hung” (Blood Letter) and “Dam me” (Passion) will compete at the Hanoi International Film Festival 2012 to be held in the capital city from November 25-29. 

(VOV) - The women's team from host Ho Chi Minh City earned a silver medal after losing to Japan 0-3 in the final round of the 26th Golden Racket International Table Tennis Tournament on November 2.

Movie actor and singer Kim Jae-joong of the Republic of Korea will visit Vietnam and meet his fans on November 10. 

(VOV) - The Vietnam-Republic of Korea (RoK) culture and food festival debuted in Hanoi on November 2.

A unique Mexican festival celebrating and honouring the dead is currently on show at an exhibition in Hanoi. 

An Israeli-Palestinian piano duo will perform in HCM City on November 4 and Hanoi a day later. 

Top Vietnamese player Ma Xuan Cuong has been invited to take part in the 2013 AGIPI Billiards Masters first qualifying round in Strasbourg, France, on November 23-25.

(VOV) - In Da Lat city in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong, there is an unmissable landmark world-famous for its bizarre architecture, fondly known as the “Crazy House”.

(VOV) - The second Science Film Festival will take place across 11 cities and provinces in Vietnam from November 8-30. 

(VOV) - The 26th Golden Racket International Table Tennis Tournament opened in Ho Chi Minh City’s Phan Dinh Phung Gymnasium on October 31. 

(VOV) - Vietnam has not succeeded at the World Junior Badminton Championships in Chiba, Japan, when its last representatives were outplayed by their strong opponents on November 1.

(VOV) - The National Gymnastics Championships 2012 closed at the Quan Ngua Sports Palace in Hanoi on October 31.

(VOV) - An international paragliding tournament will be held in Lac Son district of the northern mountain province of Hoa Binh from November 16-18. 

The Hanoi-Amsterdam school has beaten five other secondary schools to win first prize in a movie making competition organized by technology giant Panasonic.

(VOV) -Vietnam's top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh is seeded No 7 at the Li Ning China Open 2012 on November 13-18 in Shanghai, China.

(VOV) - Overseas Vietnamese and other Asians studying at Cascadia University in Kirklands, Washington DC have held a Pumpkin Carving Party to celebrate Halloween. 

(VOV) - A delegation of the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security took part in the 17th World Police Music Festival in Japan from October 28-30. 

Vietnam will compete at the World Youth Chess Championship which will take place in Maribor, Slovenia, from November 7-19.

The Southeast Asian (SEA) Fencing Championships will be held in HCM City from November 11-18.