VOV.VN - Eighteen art troupes nationwide take part in the 2018 National Song and Dance Festival being held in Danang from August 20-31.

VOV.VN - Fourteen Miss Vietnam beauty queens have gathered for a photoshoot of Ao dai (Vietnamese traditional dress) to mark the 30th anniversary of Tien Phong Newspaper’s organisation of the Miss Vietnam pageant.

Ho Chi Minh City is seeing positive changes to the local puppetry scene, according to authorities.

VOV.VN - A number of former beauty queens have gathered in Ha Long city to attend a gala night celebrating 30 years of the Miss Vietnam beauty pageant.

VOV.VN - Forty-four of this year’s Miss Vietnam finalists have paraded the catwalk in tiny bikinis for a recent gala night celebrating 30 years of the beauty pageant.

A turning point in Vietnamese cartoon history has been marked with the recent launch of the first three episodes of the cartoon series Monta Trong Dai Ngan Ha Ky Cuc (Monta in a Weird Galaxy)

The Bat Xat Fall Festival 2018 opened in Muong Hum commune, Bat Xat district of the northern mountainous of Lao Cai on August 19, offering visitors a series of ethnic tribal life experience and adventure activities.

VOV.VN -Forty-four Miss Vietnam 2018 contestants wowed the audience with breath-taking style in Vietnamese traditional dress (Ao dai) at a gala night to celebrate 30 years of the beauty pageant.

The Japanese Cultural Days in Quang Nam and the 16th Hoi An – Japan cultural exchange programme were rounded off in Hoi An ancient town, the central province of Quang Nam, on August 19.

The Union of Friendship Organisations of central Quang Nam province held a workshop in Hoi An city on August 19 to promote people-to-people exchanges with Japan.

The capital city’s first ever rose park will open soon in Long Bien District, 10km east of the city centre.

Internationally acclaimed contrabassist Jeff Bradetich will lead a Saigon classical music concert on August 20.

VOV.VN - More efforts are needed to enhance preservation of Vietnam’s national heritage, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at a recent meeting in Hanoi. 

The Japan Cultural Days in Quang Nam and the 16th Hoi An-Japan Cultural Exchange kicked off in Hoi An city, the central province of Quang Nam on August 17 to mark the 45th anniversary of the Vietnam-Japan diplomatic relations (1973-2018).

A Mother Goddess ritual worshipping festival started on August 18 at the Hon Chen Temple, a monument built by the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945) kings hundreds of years ago in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

A group of artists from Vietnam known as Art Labour and Joan Jonas will attend the 57th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the US.

An exchange event introducing silk and brocade weaving products of Vietnam and Japan opened in Hoi An ancient city of the central province of Quang Nam on August 18, as part of the 16th Hoi An-Japan Cultural Exchange.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese supermodel Minh Tu, joined by foreign models Shikin, Monika and host Cindy, were in Thailand for a press conference for the sixth season of Asia’s Next Top Model.

Phuthotourist, an affiliate of Saigontourist Holding Company, in collaboration with White Lotus Culture and Arts Co Ltd. will organize a vegetarian food festival themed “Lotus Flower Season” at Dam Sen Cultural Park in HCM City from August 19 to 26.

In a joyful atmosphere of Quang Nam rural market and the exciting music performance of the Reinhardt Reissner Big Band–Brass Music From Bavaria, a variety of specialties and seafood, your Saturday night will be more happy with family and friends.

An experimental exhibition exploring art mixed with technology will open on August 25 in Hanoi.

A photography and book exhibition featuring Vietnam’s ethnic groups opened in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on August 17 to celebrate the occasion of the 73rd August Revolution (August 19) and National Day (September 2).

VOV.VN - The finalists of the Miss Vietnam 2018 pageant have been competing across arrange of activities as they vie for the Miss Sport title on Tuan Chau Island in Ha Long Bay.

VOV.VN - The first Vietnam Puppetry Festival opened at Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street in Ho Chi Minh City on the evening of August 16, helping locals and visitors savour the special puppetry art of the northern culture.

VOV.VN - Miss Asia USA 2006 Jennifer Pham and Miss Vietnam 2010 Ngoc Han have joined up with each other to wow the attendees at an event in Ho Chi Minh City.

An exhibition featuring nearly 30 drawings on Vietnam’s subsidy period opened at the French Cultural Centre (L’Espace) in Hanoi on August 16.

Banh mi is becoming the most beloved Vietnamese street food. With its typical flavor, Banh mi in the Old Quarter of Hanoi has established a reputation among both locals and foreign tourists.

VOV.VN - The third Central Ethnic Minority Culture Festival 2018 will take place in Tam Ky City of Central Quang Nam province from August 24-26, in the aim of preserving and promoting the cultural identities of Central ethnic minority groups in the renewal, integration and sustainable development process.

The fourth festival on gong, traditional instruments and folk songs of ethnic groups in the central province of Quang Ngai opened on August 15.

Some 200 images and artifacts related to “Nghe” – a sacred animal in the ancient culture of Vietnam – are on display at an exhibition that opened in the central city of Da Nang on August 15.