More than 200 students studying the Japanese language attended the Japan-Danang Cultural Festival in Danang City on August 27.

A delegation of Vietnamese young people, led by Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee Phan Van Mai, on August 27 left for China to attend the Vietnam-China Youth Meeting.

The second Vietnam Music Day will be held in 13 cities and provinces across the country from September 3-4.

Photographer Gian Thanh Son has introduced Vietnam’s integration process through an exhibition and the publication of the photobook “Integration Milestones” in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Hungary-Vietnam Friendship Association will exhibit a collection of 800 Vietnamese stamps in Budapest from September 2-7 to mark Vietnam’s National Day.

Bac Ha district in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai is famous for not only its beautiful landscape with immense forests adorned with white plum and bauhinia flowers in blossom, but also the Horse-race Festival, which represents unique feature in the cultural and spiritual life of the local people.

A variety of activities will be held in localities in Laos to mark Vietnam’s National Day (September 2), said Do Dang Tuc, Director of the Vietnam Cultural Centre in Laos.

The Vietnamese embassy in Argentina has coordinated with the National University of Mar del Plata to hold a celebration campaign for Vietnam’s August Revolution (August 19) and National Day (September 2).

A signing ceremony for the translation and publication of the late war doctor Dang Thuy Tram’s diary in Russia was held at the Vietnamese Embassy in Moscow on August 24.

Vietnam’s cultural and tourism week will be held in Pusan, the Republic of Korea (RoK) from August 25-29.

The film “Don’t burn” on a female doctor during the anti-US war won overseas Vietnamese audience’s favour after it was screened at the Viethaus in the German capital city of Berlin on August 22.

Cultural heritages of Buddhism in the former imperial city of Hue and the southern region have been put into an exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City.

As many as 300 delegates to the UNESCO World Congress, ambassadors from 30 countries and territories, and guests on August 21 visited the Trang An ecotourism area, Hoa Lu ancient citadel and Bai Dinh temple in Ninh Binh province.

Beautiful sites in the capital city of Hanoi and several central provinces are expected to become more popular with Japanese people after a documentary film made by the Kansai Telecasting Corporation (KTV) makes debut. 

The first Mong pan pipes festival, the biggest of its kind in Vietnam, opened in the Dong Van Stone Plateau on August 21 to mark the 120th founding anniversary of the northernmost province of Ha Giang.

Along with the night market on the Hang Dao - Dong Xuan pedestrian walkway, Hanoi will have a cultural cuisine ward in the Old Quarter with special provision for pedestrians.

The ninth Vietnam-Japan Cultural Exchange began in the central city of Hoi An on August 20. 

The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology and a Vietnamese family guidance website will hold the 2011 Mid-autumn Festival for Hanoian children between September 10 and 12.

The Vietnam Designers House in HCM City will hold its biggest fashion show My Style on August 19 to celebrate the first anniversary of the "fashion space for Vietnamese designers". 

The Dong Duong Buddhist College, a National Heritage site, would be given back its splendid beauty, a conference on the preservation of cultural relics in central Quang Nam province was told. 

A marathon competition for couples in wedding dresses themed Love and Challenges will be held in the Thong Nhat Park in Hanoi on August 20.

Special screenings of Luchino Visconti's masterpiece II Gattopardo (The Leopard) and other films will be held at Hanoi Cinematheque in honour of the 150th anniversary of the Italian unification. 

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has recently approved a project designed to preserve and promote the culture of ethnic minority groups in Vietnam until 2020. 

The Indian Embassy, in coordination with Sheraton Hanoi Hotel, will hold an Indian Cuisine Week in Vietnam from August 21-28.

Traces of a 200-year-old communal house have been found in Tra Bong district in the central province of Quang Ngai. 

The fifth sports and cultural festival for ethnic minority groups opened in the northernmost mountainous province of Ha Giang on August 17.

Award-winning UK folk artist, Jim Moray, will perform in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, announced the British Council in Hanoi on August 16.

Vietnamese circus performers claimed success at the 2011 International Summer Circus Festival (Circuba 2011) which concluded in Havana, Cuba, on August 14.

Two ceramic vases of the Champa culture have been discovered in the central province of Quang Binh.

Ngoc Trinh was crowned Miss Vietnam International 2011 at the event held in California on August 13.