The fifth Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival opened on March 10, attracting hundreds of local and international businesses.

(VOV) - The HDBank Cup International Open Chess Tournament 2015 will be held in Ho Chi Minh City on March 16-23, with the participation of 85 players including 44 Vietnamese players.

An exhibition “Happiness road, now and then” celebrating the 50th anniversary of the road’s construction opened in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang on March 10. 

(VOV) - Nguyen Duc Anh, a Vietnamese pianist, has won the silver prize at the Alkan–Zimmerman International Piano Contest held in Athens, Greece.

Five foreign teams will compete at the annual International Women’s Volleyball Championships VTV-Binh Dien Cup 2015, according to the General Department of Sports and Physical Training.

Phillips Exeter Academy’s Concert Choir and Chamber Orchestra will travel through major cities in Vietnam to perform concerts of classical Western music and Vietnamese folk songs during the 14-day “Peace and Innovation” tour.

Thirty-five paintings by Nguyen Tu Nghiem never before seen by the public are on display at an exhibition at Ngan Pho Gallery in downtown Hanoi.

(VOV) - Hanoi, city of the rising dragon, has a history stretching back for a thousand years and the city has captured the soul of Vietnam says the introduction to a just released book entitled Hanoi Capital City by Michael Waibel.

More and more young Vietnamese couples are getting married in Buddhist pagodas and monasteries around the country.

(VOV) - Smithsonian.com has announced that five Vietnamese photographers have been selected as finalists for its 2014 photo contest in the categories of travel, people and altered images.

In Vietnam, festivals are usually held in the spring. They each have their own characteristics and values, but are always directed towards a sacred entity enshrined as national heroes who fight foreign invaders, are founders of traditional trades, and who kill wild beasts to protect the people. 

Eighty-three-year old Nguyen Thi Lap could not hold back her tears as she recalled the experiences of female revolutionaries from the southern part of the country during the American War.

The Vietnamese team made a good start in the Zone 3.3 qualifying round of the World Chess Championships 2015 that opened in Ho Chi Minh City on March 7.

Berlin hip-hop dancer and choreographer, Raphael, Hillebrand will team up with Hanoi-based crew S.I.N.E. to stage a new hip-hop production in Hanoi next week.

(VOV) -Vietnamese Ly Hoang Nam has advanced to the final round of the Chang Thailand Junior G1 boys singles finals ongoing in Thailand with a victory over Australia’s Marc Polmans.

The construction of the Shakyamuni Buddha statue, which is expected to be the tallest of its kind in the world, commenced in the southern province of An Giang on March 5.

Prominent Slovakian artist Peter Pollag expects to help enhance the friendship and mutual understanding between Vietnam and his country through his paintings.

Xoe dancing, an indispensible activity in the cultural life of the Tay ethnic people in Ta Chai commune, Bac Ha district, northern Lao Cai province, has been listed as a national intangible cultural heritage.

Nominees for seven categories of the Cong hien (Devotion) Music Awards 2015 were announced on March 6 by the Vietnam News Agency’s daily The Thao and Van Hoa (Sport and Culture).

(VOV) -Thousands of fishermen and visitors came out on the morning of March 6 for opening day of the annual Cau Ngu (Fish Praying) Festival in the central city of Danang to celebrate and pray for a good fishing harvest this year.

(VOV) - On the occasion of International Women’s Day (March 8), Mrs Asia USA International 2014 Sonya Suong Dang posed with young model Van Tuan in Hoi An ancient town attired in Ao Dai (flowing tunic), the traditional dress for Vietnamese women.

A French postgraduate student of Vietnamese art history held a talk in Ho Chi Minh City on March 5 on the art heritage left behind by one of the Nguyen Dynasty’s kings, who is also her forefather.

An exhibition about the lives and strength of women in Vietnam when it was divided between north and south is being held in Hanoi, "Two Sisters - Two Front Lines" portraying how women fought and coped with difficulties in wartime.

(VOV) - The first runner-up of Vietnam’s Next Top Model 2012 contest Kha My Van has appeared in the latest collection Emerging From The White of Italy’s fashion brand Label2.

A concert will be held at the HCM City Opera House on March 9 to commemorate the 330th anniversary of the birth of Johannes Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel, both born in 1685.

All preparations have been completed for the fifth coffee festival to be held in downtown Buon Ma Thuot, a Central Highlands city, from March 9 to 12, said the organisers.

The Hanoi Golf Open will begin on March 11 at the Sky Lake Chuong My golf course in Hanoi.

State President Truong Tan Sang on March 5 met with over 150 poets, writers, and translators from more than 40 countries and territories who are in Hanoi to attend a number of literary events. 

(VOV) - The World World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) announced on March 4 that it stripped Vietnam of the right to organizethe 2015 World Taekwondo Championships for failure to timely pay a required US$100,000 administrative fee.

(VOV) -An exhibition featuring 67 oil paintings by Vietnamese American artist Trinh Lu has opened in Hanoi at 31-33 Hang Dong Street.