Vietnamese actress Do Hai Yen has been selected as one of seven promising Asian movie stars at a conference held recently in the Republic of Korea.

The UPU Letter Writing Contest - Vietnam 2007 was launched at the Giang Vo Primary School in Hanoi on October 9.

Vietnamese photographers have won 10 out 18 prizes at an international photo contest held by the Japan-based Asian Productivity Organisation (APO).

The “XQ – Thang Long-Hanoi Autumn” festival took place at the Temple of Literature in Hanoi on October 7 as part of activities to mark the 52nd anniversary of the capital liberation day (October 10) and the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi.

The Hanoi Photographers’ Association (HPA) has opened its 36th exhibition of artistic photographs to mark the capital city’s Liberation Day (October 10).

The Danish Embassy in Hanoi has launched a month-long contest on experimental music composition for young Vietnamese composers.

An exhibition “Sai Gon 1955 – Ho Chi Minh City 2005 in the air” has opened in Hanoi to introduce photos of Ho Chi Minh City during the past 50 years through the lens of French veteran photographer Raymond Cauchetier.

Cultural experts from Vietnam and Belgium met at a workshop in Hanoi on October 4 to review their cooperation efforts in preserving traditional crafts in ceramics villages in the Red River Delta.

French clarinet Jeromne Julien Laferrierre will stage a solo performance at HCM City’s Music Conservatoire on October 6 to feature 5 Asceses by Andre Joliet, Domaines by Pierre Boulez and Sequenz by Italian composer and conductor Luciano Berrio.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) announced on October 4 that it will organise a film week on migration in Hanoi from October 15-21.

The 15th German Beer Festival, Oktoberfest, began in HCM City on October 4, which is expected to attract more than 8,000 visitors from various nations during the week-long event.

Writer Le Van Thao, vice president of the Vietnam Writers' Association, has won the ASEAN Literature Award 2006 for his novel entitled "Con giong" (The Squall).

The second annual European Food Festival will be held by the European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (EuroCham) on October 7.

Teaching mother tongue along with the national language for ethnic children is the main topic of a three-day workshop being jointly held by the Ministry of Education and Training, the Centre for Ethnic Education Research and the United Nations of Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Hanoi on October 2.

A month of British culture and education opened in Hanoi on October 1 with a week-long film festival named "UK Flash".

The Ministry of Post and Telematics on October 1 officially issued a set of stamps featuring the cooperation between Vietnam and the European Union (EU).

More than 300 Vietnamese artists will give a special art performance to welcome the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Hanoi on November, said Le Ngoc Cuong, Director of the Performance Art Department under the Ministry of Culture and Information.

As many as 50 paintings featuring the land and people of post-war Vietnam are being displayed at an exhibition which opened in Bad Doberan city in Germany's Mecklenburg Vorpommern state on September 28.

Tatana Kucharova, a Czech student, outscored 103 most beautiful women in the world to win the Miss World 2006 title in Warsaw, Poland on Saturday night.

Vietnam Culture Days are being held in Egypt for the first time with the aim of strengthening traditional cooperative relations between the two countries.

A "Vietnam Night" has been held recently in Vienna by the Vietnamese Embassy in Austria, to introduce Vietnamese beautiful scenery, people and culture to promote bilateral trade, investment and tourism.

The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology has organised different activities for children to mark the coming mid-autumn festival, which will falls on October 6.

As many as 15 films by APEC member economies will be screened at the coming APEC film festival to be held in Hanoi, central Da Nang city, and HCM City from October 6-13, 11-18, and 16-23, respectively.

People’s artist Dang Thai Son, who ever won first prize at the Chopin piano contest 1980, presented a one-man show with four Chopin’s works at the Chopin Music Festival in Beijing, China on September 29.

Denmark will provide US$165,000 to support dialogue between cultural managers and opinion makers at central level to develop arts and cultural identity in Vietnam.

The Fine Art and Photography Department under the Ministry of Culture and Information (MoCI) has launched an international painting contest following the ministry’s decision.

Pop singer Doan Trang from HCM City will attend the Japanese Hattori Memorial Music Festival in Osaka City of Japan scheduled for September 28 - October 3.

More than 30,000 people took part in the annual ox-racing event at Ta Miet Pagoda in Tri Ton District, An Giang province on September 23.

An exhibition featuring the history and development of Chinese characters opened in Hanoi on September 25 to mark the 57th National Day of the People's Republic of China (October 1).

The Vietnamese film "Chuyen Cua Pao" (Pao's Story) was selected to compete for an Oscar at the 2007 Annual Academy Awards.