(VOV) -France’s Le Monde newspaper has published a book about President Ho Chi Minh, a figure that won national independence for Vietnam. 

The scorching sun in Ho Chi Minh City on the afternoon of April 4 did not keep around a hundred of people away from slugging it out on the 2015 International Pillow Fight Day.

Nguyen Tran Trung Quan is expecting to win at the annual Music Devotion Awards ceremony on April 6, which will be held at the HCM City Opera House.

The project on restoring and preserving documentary films kept at the National Documentary and Scientific Film Production Studio will be continued with the assistance from the Belgium’s Wallonie - Bruxelles Delegation.

(VOV) -The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has launched the national tourism week themed “connecting world heritages” in Thanh Hoa province. 

The Vietnam International Travel Mart (VITM) 2015 officially opened in Hanoi on April 3, adopting the theme "Vietnam – The Land of Heritage."

(VOV) -Villages of Co Tu ethnic minority people in Ta Bhing village, Nam Giang district, Quang Nam province, have become a popular tourist destination in recent years.

Ideas and suggestions on balancing tourism development and heritage preservation were put forwards at a tourism conference on the sidelines of the Vietnam International Tourism Mart in Hanoi on April 3.

Tay Thien festival, one of the major northern spiritual events, began on April 3, drawing a wave of people making pilgrimages to pray for a new year of good health, happiness, and prosperity.

(VOV) - The annual – Hanoi Sound Stuff – music festival will kick off on April 9 in three venues in the city with a star-studded line-up of internationally talented musicians taking to the stage.

(VOV) - A Hanji Contemporary Korean Paper Art exhibition showcasing 15 artworks by Yang Sang Hoon has opened at the Korean Cultural Centre in Hanoi.

Rapper Suboi has been the first Vietnamese artist to appear at the global music festival, South by Southwest (SXSW).

The 2015 Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival is set to take place at Hanoi’s Thang Long royal citadel on April 11-12, bringing fluffy pink scenery to the capital city dwellers. 

A photo of two women sewing a giant fishing net in central Vietnam has won the top prize at the world’s famous photo contest organized by US magazine Smithsonian.

The French group Thylacine will present an electro music concert at Cargo Bar in HCM City on April 8, iLL Beats Saigon and the French Institute in HCM City have announced.

"Fast & Furious 7" and "Avengers: Age of Ultron" are two blockbusters opening the summer movie season in April.

(VOV) - A watercolour art exchange exhibition opened at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum in Hanoi on April 1, displaying 47 artworks by 22 painters from Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia.

(VOV) - With their bright colours and intense fragrances – lilies, roses, daffodils, and other flowers signal that spring has arrived and symbolize the expectation and joy for the coming year.

A beautiful cave system with magnificent stalactites has been discovered on the Dong Van karst plateau near Lung Khuy village commune in the northernmost province of Ha Giang.

A music gala put together by formers students of the Hanoi Conservatory of Music, the first of its kind, will be held at Viet House in Berlin on April 4.

Russian pianist Ilya Rashkobskiy will perform with the Vietnam National Symphony and Orchestra (VNSO) under the baton of Grammy-award winning David Alan Miller on April 3-4.

For married artists Christiane Campioni and Tobias Kuester Campioni, Vietnam has always been an inspiration. But now it's also a home for them and their sons.

(VOV) - Around the globe, mobile food businesses are not unique and they have been a tried- and-true business model that’s fed generations of eaters.

(VOV) - Speed films such as “Speed”, “Gone in 60 Seconds” or “Fast & Furious” are considered the masterpieces of the world, which are most favourite all time. 

Ready for a big car chase? The seventh installment of the famous action series “Fast & Furious” will premiere in Vietnam on a giant screen at the country’s first IMAX theater, cinema operator CGV has announced.

(VOV) - Vietnam and Ethiopia unveiled on March 31 that they have reached an agreement to cooperate in the field of heritage management, said Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh.

Wandering the Ho Thi Ky flower market at night is an exciting experience in the life and culture of Saigonese.

(VOV) - Delegates attending the 132nd Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly (IPU-132) report they were fascinated on the evening of March 29 with the spellbinding fire dances of the Pa Then ethnic people. 

Books will be the centre of attention through the end of April as a string of events are set to celebrate the 2nd annual Vietnam Book Day (April 21). 

(VOV) - On March 29, National Assembly (NA) Vice Chairwoman Tong Thi Phong hosted a solidarity gala night at the Culture-Tourism Village of Vietnamese ethnic groups in Dong Mo, Son Tay district, Hanoi, welcome parliamentarians to the 132nd the Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly (IPU-132).