The “Return to Truong Son” cycling tournament (Vietnam People’s Army Newspaper Cup) will officially begin in Hanoi on July 15, as announced by the organizing board on July 11.

The traditional Lap Tinh or Cap Sac ceremony of the Dao Tien ethnic minority marks the end of a boy's childhood and gives him a new name. The community recognizes a boy as mature after he has completed the ceremony.

A Korean traditional music programme titled “Cookin’ NANTA” will be held in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from July 20-29.

Sixty photos of Laos’ land and people and Laos-Vietnam friendship will be displayed at the Vietnam Exhibition Centre for Culture and Arts in Hanoi next week.

The Republic of Serbia’s Historical Museum has delivered to Vietnam a valuable set of digital photos of late President Ho Chi Minh’s official friendship visit to the country in 1957.

The Toyota Concert Tour 2012 will be held in Vientiane, Phnom Penh, and HCM City and Hanoi from July 24 to August 6.

The VTV-Eximbank International Volleyball Cup 2012 tournament will be held in the northern province of Vinh Phuc from July 14-21.

The host team from Quang Tri won first prize in the National Traditional Boat Races on the Thach Han River, which wrapped up on July 10.

An exhibition of paintings by German artist Martin Schuster entitled ‘Mental Places’ will open in Hanoi on July 13.

Overseas Vietnamese model and global event organiser Jessica Minh Anh has decided to pick the famous river Seine in Paris for her next phenomenal showcase, the J Summer Fashion Show.

Vietnamese billiards player Tran Quyet Chien won a bronze medal at the 2012 Asian Billiards Championships which closed in HCM City on July 8.

The national basketball championships 2012 opened in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh on July 8.

Vietnam’s futsal team Thai Son Bac defeated Singapore’s Touch N Go 4-3 in the final round to win the Tiger Cup in Guangzhou, China on July 8.

The 3rd Vietnamese cultural and tourism festival 2012 is taking place at the Korean National University of Art in Seoul.

A ceremony was held in Hanoi on July 8 to see off the Vietnamese sports delegation to Olympic London 2012.

An exhibition of Vietnamese photographs and documentary films will be held in Warsaw, Poland to mark Vietnam's National Day (September 2) and promote the country’s images to the Polish people.

More than 200 athletes across the country are taking part in the National Traditional Boat Races that opened on the Thach Han River in Quang Tri on July 8.

A Vietnam-Japan Cultural Day will be held in Ho Chi Minh City on July 8 to promote cultural exchanges between the two countries.  

Two French engineers, Antonin Guy and Xavier Degon, who are traveling around the world in a standard electric car, have arrived in Vietnam.  

Vietnam to compete at the 2012 Asian Shell Eco-marathon which started at the Sepang International Circuit on July 6 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Nine foreign teams will compete with 20 domestic teams in 33 events of the 19th Open International Athletics Tournament in Ho Chi Minh City from July 10-12.  

Three gymnasts from the Vietnamese national team, Ha Thanh, Phuoc Hung, and Ngan Thuong, will travel to the UK on July 10 to begin training for the 2012 London Olympics.  

“The Song of the Earth” by Austrian composer Gustav Mahler will be performed for the first time at the Hanoi Opera House on July 12-13.

Chain Camera, a US documentary film, will be shown at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi on the evening of July 6.

The fourth International Vovinam (traditional Vietnamese martial arts) Festival will be held in the south central province of Binh Dinh from August 1-4, according to a press briefing in Hanoi on July 6.

Vietnam’s Record Organization has submitted 15 of the country’s most popular dishes to the Asian Record Organization.

Vietnam is placed fourth at the ongoing ASEAN School Games themed "Spirit, Friendship and Excellence", in the Indonesian province of East Java with 27 gold, 17 silver and 16 bronze medals.

The award winning Australian musical film “Bran Nue Dae” will be screened in five north-western provinces of Vietnam from July 12 to 18.

Vietnamese billiards player Ngo Dinh Nai defeated his team mate Tran Phi Hung 100-79 in the final match of the 2012 Asian Billiards Championships’ 1-cushion event in HCM City on July 5.

Top Vietnamese chess player Le Quang Liem has secured a place in the finals of the 2012 World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships that will be held in Astana, Kazakhstan, on July 9-10.