The first international choir festival will be held in Hoi An, Quang Nam province from March 16-20, 2011, sponsored by Quang Nam province and the German International Cultural Association (InterKultur).

Around 600 Vietnamese traditional dresses (ao dai) will be displayed at a fashion show in Hanoi on October 1 to mark 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

Flautist Andrea Griminelli will perform at an Italian symphony scheduled to take place at the Hanoi Opera on September 20.

The Thang Long-Hanoi International Tourism Festival will be held at the Bao Son Paradise Theme Park from October 2-5.

For the first time in Vietnam, 26 audio books featuring popular local and foreign titles have been released by a local publisher in HCM City.

Three Vietnamese photographers were awarded prizes at the second annual “Picture This: We Can End Poverty” international photo contest at the United Nations headquarters in New York on September 15.

Vietnam is one of 40 countries exhibiting their products at the 15th International Kite Festival in Dieppe, France, from December 11-19.

An exhibition of media photos entitled, “Golden Moment” in Hanoi has been co-organised by the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and the Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists.

Many friendship exchanges will be held during September and October to promote Hanoi’s image to international friends on the occasion of the capital city’s millennial anniversary.

Japan’s leading pianist Michie Koyama will perform symphony No 5 by the German virtuoso composer Beethoven at the Hanoi Opera House on September 17-18.

The Secretary of the Party Central Committee and head of its Commission for Mass Mobilisation, Ha Thi Khiet, received a Chinese delegation of ethnic youth in Hanoi on September 15.

The events aim to promote exchange, friendship and promote the image of a 1000-year-old Hanoi to international friends.

A week of Polish film will be shown at the National Cinema Centre in Hanoi from September 19 to 23.

The Culture-Tourism Village of Vietnamese ethnic groups in Dong Mo, Son Tay, Hanoi, will open on September 19 to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

The Thoi Dai (Age) Publishing House has launched a new index of Hanoi’s Streets to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

Vietnam's first international film festival will be held in Hanoi from October 17-21 to celebrate the capital's millennium, said Le Ngoc Minh, deputy director of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's Cinema Department.

The Vietnam-China Friendship Singing Contest 2010 opened in Ha Long city in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh on September 13.

Vietnam won three second prizes and two third prizes at the international piano competition, which was held in Vietnam for the first time from September 5-12.

A cartoon on a legendary Emperor, who founded Thang Long capital, now Hanoi, is scheduled to be screened on September 17.

Nghe An Museum collected and preserved 41 Dong Son bronze drums for decades.

Vietnam Television (VTV) on September 12 broadcast live a special programme from the Thai Lao cemetery in Nghe An province and the Xoviet - NgheTinh  historical vestige in Ha Tinh province to highlight the Xoviet - NgheTinh  Movement.

The 2010 Vietnam-Japan Festival opened in Ho Chi Minh City on September 12.

The “Thang Long-Hanoi Craft Villages and Streets” festival will be held at Bach Thao botanical park in Hanoi from September 16-21. 

A ceremony was held in Dong Tien commune, Dong Son District, in the central province of Thanh Hoa on September 11 to launch the casting of 100 bronze drums as gifts to Hanoi for its millennium celebrations. 

A film by director Nguyen Phan Quang Binh, the only Vietnamese entry, will compete for the New Currents' prize at the 15th Busan Film Festival, October 7-15.  

A series of works to decorate Hanoi is basically complete with just 30 days left until the millennium anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

Fourteen reporters from Cambodia, Egypt, Bulgaria and Hungary gathered at a meeting in Hanoi on September 10 to cover the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long Hanoi.

A massive collage of 1,000 paintings by children from Hanoi titled “thousands of pictures, thousands of wishes” will be on display on September 22.

Vietnam and China have highlighted the important role and position of culture in their modernisation and reform.

Between October 2009 and August 2010, more than 3.2 million entries were sent to a contest testing contestants’ knowledge about the 1000-year history of Thang Long-Hanoi, say contest organizers.