20 contestants from Miss Earth beauty pageant, including Vietnamese contestant Luu Thi Diem Huong, and Miss Earth Larissa Ramos held an exchange with women in Binh Chanh district, HCM City on November 8.

A delegation from the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) led by Dinh The Huynh, member of the Party Central Committee and Editor-in-Chief of the Nhan dan (People) newspaper took part in the 40th festival of Akahata newspaper, the organ of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP).

A poetry night was held in Vientiane, Laos on November 6, celebrating the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi, the 450th commemoration of Vientiane and the 35th establishment of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.

The Association of Asian Ambassadors’ Wives in Egypt organised a fair to introduce cultural products from different countries on November 6.   

The German Youth Choir from Wernigerode will perform at Hanoi Youth Theatre on November 10-11 in celebration of “German Year in Vietnam 2010."

A documentary featuring a Vietnamese martial artist filmed by Quang Ngai Television has won the Guirlande d' Honneur at the 28th Sport Movies and TV festival in Milan.

An opera about love and memory, performed by artists from the Republic of Korea (RoK), will be held at Au Co Performing Arts Centre in Hanoi on November 11.

Local filmmakers and their American counterparts met at a cultural exchange programme on November 5 held by the US Consulate General in HCM City to share experiences about documentary film-making.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on November 4 presented Vietnamese writer and translator Hoang Thuy Toan with a Friendship Medal at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow.

Vietnam offered Cambodia a collection of books to commemorate Vietnamese-Cambodian friendship at a ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on November 4. 

A photo exhibition in Ha Long City displays 130 candid photos taken from aerial and ground level of Ha Long Bay, a natural world wonder.

A cultural programme to mark the 60th anniversary of Vietnam-Hungary diplomatic ties opened in HCM City Youth Culture House on November 3.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra (TMSO) in coordination with the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) will hold an informal performance at the Hanoi Opera House on November 7, conducted by the famous Japanese conductor, Honna Tetsuji.

A conference to review a cooperative programme to develop tourism in 2010 was held in Sa Pa district, Lao Cai province on November 1.

More than 90 Miss Earth contestants from all over the world and 1,000 Vietnamese and foreign business people will gather at a charity gala dinner and cultural exchange to be held in HCM City next week to raise funds for central flood victims.

The first ever Panamanian Cultural Week will be held in Hanoi between November 1 and 6.

An awards ceremony for the Photo and Documentary Film Festival on the countries and peoples of ASEAN was held in Hanoi on October 31.  

An international climb began in Sa Pa, Lao Cai province, on November 1 to plant a flag marking Hanoi’s 1,000th birthday on the peak of Fansipan Mountain.

Vietnamese Culture Week in Cambodia ended with two arts performances on October 28-29 by Vietnamese and Cambodian artists at Chartomouk International Conference Palace in Phnom Penh.

Vietnamese photographers from the southern province of Kien Giang have won nine gold and two bronze medals at the 2010 International Art Photo Contest in the United States.

An exhibition called “HIV/AIDS in Vietnam: 20 years of changes and challenges” will be held at the Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi on November 22 to mark HIV/AIDS prevention month (November 10-December 10). 

Poems from the “Prison Diary” written by the late President Ho Chi Minh have been translated into Mongolian by President of the Mongolia-Vietnam Friendship Association (MVFA) Doctor Sonomish Dashtsevel.

Vietnam Guiness Book of Records has recognized the Hoa Tai Ngoc Chau stone art museum in Bao Loc city in the central highland province of Lam Dong as the first in Vietnam.

The ASEAN symphony orchestra, consisting of musicians from Vietnam and other ASEAN nations, will perform in Ho Chi Minh City on October 26.

A book about the 1,000-year history of Hanoi by US researcher James Goodman has been made available to the public by The Gioi (World) Publishing House.

On October 24 the Vietnam-Japan Friendship Association officially opened the Vietnam-Japan Culture Club in Hanoi and marked the first anniversary of the Vietnam-Japan Business Club.

A Japanese film week was launched in Nha Trang by the Consulate General of Japan in Ho Chi Minh City and the Khanh Hoa provincial department for Culture, Sports and Tourism on October 22.

A photo exhibition and a seminar on Hanoi ’s architecture and urban life were opened in the Vietnam Cultural Centre in Paris , France , on October 21. 

A Singaporean film entitled “Sand Castle” won Best Feature Film and Best Director at the Vietnam International Film Festival in Hanoi, which concluded on October 21.

A Vietnam-Hungary culture club officially made its debut in Hanoi on October 22 to mark the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries.