VOV.VN - Miss Hung Temple Giang My has become a highlight of a ceremony in Palau to assume the post of Honourable Goodwill Ambassador to promote tourism between the Republic of Palau and South East Asian nations.

A contemporary art show entitled “Memories-Things to remember” featuring the Creative Group Noni from the Republic of Korea will be held from April 14 to 16.

Ho Chi Minh City will organise the first-ever cherry blossom festival on April 22-23, according to the municipal People’s Committee.

A French film programme in Da Nang will screen at Le Do Cinema, 46 Tran Phu Street, on April 15.

 A photo contest will be launched by the Hanoi Association of Photographic Artists in co-ordination with the Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists (VAPA).

The Carnaval Ha Long 2016 is slated to take place on April 30 at the October 30 Square in Ha Long city, the northern province of Quang Ninh, according to the municipal authorities.

Home to the largest number of Khmer people in the Mekong Delta, Soc Trang province has recently been celebrating the traditional Chol Chnam Thmay New Year festival.

The Saigon Philharmonic Orchestra will hold “With strings attached” concert to mark the 60th anniversary of the HCMC Conservatory of Music at 7:30 pm on April 15.

The weather on the day of Songkran, Thailand’s traditional New Year, could prove very hot as the temperature is predicted to rise to 40 degrees Celsius, the Thai Meteorological Department said. 

Ho Chi Minh City on April 13 hosted a festival featuring customs and rituals of Cambodian, Lao, Myanmar and Thai people during their traditional New Year celebrations.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has agreed in principle to allow the People’s Committee of An Giang province to make an overall planning for the Oc Eo-Ba The Special National Relic Site.

A century-old relief of Lac Long Quan, the father of the first Hung King - the legendary founder of Vietnam, has been recognised as a piece of national treasure. 

An ancient semicircular musical stone has been unearthed at Phu Lam pagoda, Yen Son district, the northern province of Tuyen Quang, according to Ly Manh Thang, deputy director of the provincial museum.

People across Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar are eager to herald their traditional New Year festivals according to the Buddhist calendar.

VOV.VN -Thai Heartthrob Mario Maurer, star of the box office smash hits Pee Mak, will headline on May 14 at a tourism event in Ho Chi Minh City, according to the SIAMovies Channel.

Numerous activities featuring traditional Xoan singing will be organised during the upcoming 2016 Hung Kings Temple festival, said Nguyen Dac Thuy, Deputy Director of the Phu Tho provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism. 

VOV.VN - Vietnam Next Top Model Quynh Chau is getting closer to taking bragging rights on the reality television hit series, Miss Ao Dai Vietnam 2016.

VOV.VN -Famous actresses Angela Phuong Trinh and Thanh Thuy, who are main casts of the Vietnamese movie “Taxi, Em Ten Gi?” (Taxi, what’s your name?), have been invited to the Cannes Film Festival, which will take place in May in France.

VOV.VN - Hoang Oanh has appeared in latest photos giving new breath into office wear.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Writers' Association has decided to translate the war novel 'Bien Ban ChienTranh 1-2-3-4.75' (War Minutes January-April, 1975) written by veteran journalist Tran Mai Hanh into English.

An art programme titled Cau chuyen hoa binh so 4 (The Fourth Story of Peace) will be held in Japan’s capital, Tokyo, on April 14.

VOV.VN - Hundreds of people from across Vietnam sweated it out on the streets of Ngoc Tri Village recently for a competition at the Tran Vu Temple Festival that has roots dating back hundreds of years.

VOV.VN - The French YDA Ciné Club - has unveiled it will screen three Vietnamese short films on April 16 at the La Clef Cinema in Paris.

VOV.VN - A special premiere of ‘White Valentine’ a Vietnamese film that touches on so many issues lesbians face in real life and gives voice and visibility to homosexual women will screen starting April 15 at five AMC Theatres in the US.

VOV.VN - Le Hang-  the second runner-up of the 2015 Miss Universe Vietnam- looked great in sophisticated long dresses (ao dai) made by designer Thuy Nguyen at a recent cultural event held in Phu Quoc islands.

Thai police on April 11 said that it has stepped up security measures on Koh Samui Island to prepare for the country’s traditional Songkran water festival. 

Cambodia has deployed more forces to ensure traffic safety and order from its capital city of Phnom Penh to Siem Reap city in order to prepare for the traditional Choul Chnam Thmey (New Year) festival, especially during the Angkor Sangkran on April 13. 

VOV.VN - The lives of the Ha Nhi ethnic people are closely associated with the forest and brooks. 

Four hundred objects collected from French Indochina will be auctioned in Paris in May.  

A ceremony was held in Hanoi on April 11 to mark Russia’s Cosmonautics Day and the 55 th anniversary of the launch of the first human into orbit (April 12).