This week, Vietnamese will enjoy a six-day national holiday from April 28 to May 3.

More than 20 foreign correspondents who had covered the Vietnam War that ended four decades ago have arrived in Ho Chi Minh City for an event organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to mark the 40th anniversary.

(VOV) -A picture of Hung Kings, which is assembled by 3.258 square blocks, has been recognised as the largest of its kind in Vietnam by the Vietnam Record Book Centre (Vietkings).

(VOV) -As many as 42 beautiful photos of Vietnamese people are being displayed at an exhibition in Hanoi and being sold online to raise funds for Vietnamese children.

The Cuban magazine Resumen Latinoamericano y del Terner Mundo has recently released a special issue on the late Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh to mark his 125th birth anniversary, which falls on May 19.

Pho Hien, the land once a bustling port town in the north hundreds years ago, was brought back to its glorious past through a special art performance programme.

(VOV) - Mrs Asia USA Sonya Suong Dang along with supermodels Ngoc Tinh and Pham Huong on April 26 joined in a street festival at Dong Hoi City in Quang Binh province.

(VOV) - Miss Vietnam 2012 Dang Thu Thao took to the catwalk for the first time in a fashion show recently held in Ho Chi Minh City.

Streets and parks in HCM City will be alive with festivities in celebration of Reunification Day (April 30).

More than 10 paintings and sculptures made on the subject of war by artists from across the country are on display in downtown Hanoi.

A music performance praising the traditional friendship between Vietnam and China was held in northernmost Ha Giang province on April 25.

Project Runway Vietnam runners-up Chau Chan Hung and Ha Hong Lam will participate in the 2015 Asia New Generation Fashion Designer Award in Singapore from May 13 to 17.

(VOV) - Vietnam Television (VTV) has made what it has called a significant investment in licensing, producing and promoting a new sport game show in Vietnam entitled – Unlimited-Sasuke Vietnam – based upon the successful US version called American Ninja Warrior.

The value of gong culture, a distinctive feature of the Central Highlands and a piece of world intangible cultural heritage, is vividly cherished through a festival kicked off in the regional province of Lam Dong on April 24.

Epics passed down many generations of the Bahnar ethnic minority community in the Central Highland province of Gia Lai were awarded a certificate recognising them part of the national intangible heritage on April 24. 

A once-thriving Pho Hien (Hien street) in Red River Delta Hung Yen province is documented in a book released on April 24. 

The South African team, newcomers to the 2015 Danang International Fireworks Competition, will perform the curtain-raiser on April 28, said the organising committee at a media briefing on April 24. 

An exhibition, entitled “The Silent World”, is underway at Laguna Lang Co in central Thua Thien-Hue province's Lang Co town.

(VOV) - Mrs Asia USA International 2014 Sonya Suong Dang recently appeared as elegant as usual for a photo op in a meadow near Danang.

Over-600-year-old diospyros persimmon trees in the central province of Thanh Hoa have been recognised as the national heritage tree. 

As many as 150 outstanding carved and ceramic products are being showcased at the bronze book and engraved wood exhibition, which opens in the Central province of Thua Thien-Hue on April 24 as part of the Hue Traditional Craft Festival 2015. 

(VOV) -The Vietnam War has left a deep and lasting impression on not just the soldiers who fought but the whole of the world.

Two ancient Buddhist pagodas in the west of Hanoi – Tay Phuong and Thay – received certificates recognising them as special national relic sites on April 23.

A workshop on “Vietnamese Novels in Globalisation” was convened at the French Cultural Centre –L’Espace in Hanoi on April 23.

Nearly 100 products from 76 Vietnamese food businesses received the golden brand title at a ceremony held in Hanoi on April 23. 

A photo exhibition presenting Hung King worship rituals and the story of it becoming an intangible heritage of humanity began in northern Phu Tho province on April 23. 

(VOV) -Top 5 finalists from three countries including Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia have been selected to compete in the final round of “Drink Big Cola - Join Asia's Got Talent (AJE)" contest.

(VOV) -Dinh Hang, a Vietnamese reporter, had spent 6 months traveling the US alone, from April to October 2013.

(VOV) -The British Council on April 23 announced Shakespeare Lives, an unprecedented global programme of events and activities celebrating Shakespeare’s life on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his death in 2016.

Exhibitions of historical and legal evidence of Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracels) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos are being held across the country on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the South and national reunification.