Limbless and motivational speaker Nick Vujicic will return Vietnam for the third time on March 22 to take part in a series of activities for local disabled people.

Craft workers from traditional villages nationwide will gather in the former imperial capital city of Hue to display their handiwork over five festive days at the Hue Traditional Craft Festival.

Vietnamese fighter Nguyen Tran Duy Nhat won a gold medal at the ongoing World Martial Arts Council Games 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand.

(VOV) -The Goethe Institute will screen three award-winning films of well-known director Hannes Stohr in Hanoi on three consecutive evenings, March 23-25, on the occasion of German Film Days.

The Danang International Fireworks Competition 2015 (DIFC 2015) will kick off in the central city on March 28, drawing five teams.

Gymnast Phan Thi Ha Thanh will be the only Vietnamese athlete to take part in the 8th Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup, which is scheduled for March 25-27 in Doha, Qatar.

Defending champion Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son easily logged his first win at the HDBank International Open Chess Tournament held on March 17 in HCM City.

The Vietnamese Embassy has joined representative agencies from 15 other countries to showcase traditional culture at the 2015 Francophonie Week in Pakistan’s capital city, Islamabad.

(VOV) - The first runner-up of Vietnam’s Next Top Model 2012 contest Kha My Van will appear on French fashion magazine L’Officiel.

(VOV) - An Lai market meets in Nguyen Hue commune, Hoa An district, Cao Bang province every five days. This is not simply a market but a gathering place of people from different ethnic minority groups.

In recent times, a number of youths have taken up riding electric unicycles in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City for all the novelty and fun that the activity offers.

Artist Bui Hoai Mai, who is famous by his ceramic mosaic paintings, will take part a talkshow on the Vietnamese ceramics on March 18 at the Heritage Space in Hanoi.

Yamaha Motor Vietnam is preparing to organise its first football festival for U13 students from all over the country. 

Internationally renowned musical ensemble Pink Martini will visit Ho Chi Minh City early next month for charity concerts on their first ever tour of Asia.

(VOV) - The 2015 Yonex Sunrise Vietnam International Challenge officially kicked off at the Cau Giay gymnasium in Hanoi on March 17 with 296 athletes from 17 nations competing for top honours. 

(VOV) -When judges on the popular kids talent show – Voice Kids Germany 2015 – heard a blind Overseas Vietnamese (OVs) youth hit his first note of the Disney legendary song ‘Let it go’ they were blown away.

After many years of being almost exclusively oriented to foreign clients, some galleries are finding appropriate ways to return to the potential of the local market.

A dictionary of Nom scripts – the Chinese-based Vietnamese script that was widely used between the 15th and 19th centuries – will be introduced to the public on March 17.

The Munich-based Raggabund band's two brothers, with the stage names Paco Mendoza and Don Caramelo, will perform in Hanoi to open the Deutschlandfest (German Festival) on March 28.

(VOV) -The 4th International Puppetry Festival is set to get underway in Hanoi this October, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST).

The National Futsal Championship will kick off on March 29 in Ho Chi Minh City with new rules, under which 10 teams will compete in a two-stage tournament.

(VOV) - On March 15, the Vietnam Fall/Winter 2015 Fashion Week closed in Hanoi with a spectacular show of Haute Couture collections.

Vietnamese students in the UK are working hard preparing for a cultural day themed “Colours of Vietnam”, to be held on March 24 at the University College London (UCL) in London with the goal to promote Vietnamese culture to international friends. 

Vietnam will once again honour the French language through a film festival and concerts to celebrate International Francophone Day, which falls on March 20.

Winning all three tickets in Zone 3.3 on March 15, Vietnam will now compete in the upcoming FIDE World Chess Championships.

The Vietnamese Embassy in New Zealand set up pavilions featuring various products such as fine arts, handicrafts, and traditional cuisines at the ASEAN Southeast Asian Night Market in Wellington on March 13-14. 

(VOV) - The pressure for Vietnam to attract tourists and investors in a rapidly integrating marketplace has never been greater, said Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh in a recent interview with a Voice of Vietnam (VOV) reporter.

A training course for independent filmmakers is being held in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi from March 10 to 17 with the aim of educating talented youth with crucial filming knowledge.

(VOV) - Vietnamese top seed player Le Quang Liem on March 14 defeated Laylo Darwin of the Philippines in the Zone 3.3 qualifying round of the World Chess Championships 2015 in HCM City to secure a berth in the upcoming Chess World Cup  2015. 

Vietnam won three gold medals at the Asian Cup 1 Regatta held in Singapore on March 13.