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French conductor and pianist David Greilsammer will host a concert tour across Vietnam, starting in Ho Chi Minh City on June 18.

Nearly 1,000 artists and actors from 19 professional theatres nationwide will participate in National Drama Festival 2024.

A collection of 56 ceramic and gold-plated dragons inspired by the Nguyen Dynasty are on display at an exhibition in the Kien Trung Palace in the Hue Imperial Citadel.

Local soprano Hien Nguyen, together with baritone Quoc Dat, will bring the concert La Passione to audiences in Ho Chi Minh city and in Italy.

The second Hanoi autumn festival will take place around Hoan Kiem lake from September 12 to 15 to promote both the capital’s autumn destinations and tourism products. It will be also aims to mark 70th anniversary of the Capital Liberation Day on October 10.

At a seminar on studying and following President Ho Chi Minh's ideology, ethics and style for the industry and trade sector on June 11, Prof. Dr. Hoang Chi Bao, senior expert, former member of the Central Theoretical Council gave a talk about President Ho Chi Minh’s life and career.

The Red River Festival 2024 will take place in the northwestern mountainous province of Lao Cai from September to November with invitations to Yunnan province, China, and provinces along the river in Vietnam.

13 pictures by the French news agency Agence France Presse (AFP), showcasing the spirit of martial arts in various sports, values of the Paris 2024 and Paralympic Games while showing how sports unite communities and individuals, fostering friendship and solidarity, are on display at an exhibition which opened in Ho Chi Minh City on June 11.

Four designers and eight models presented Vietnam at the ASEAN International Fashion Week at ArtScience Museum in Singapore from June 7-9.

According to a reporter from the Vietnam News Agency in France, over the weekend, at the Vietnamese Cultural Center in Paris, a special art program was held to celebrate the 15th founding anniversary of the Homeland Choir, the largest and only Vietnamese-languague singing choir overseas.

According to the Management Board of President Ho Chi Minh, the mausoleum and the nearby Monument for Heroic Martyrs in Hanoi will be closed from June 10 to August 12 for the yearly maintenance.

A traditional dance and royal performance at Ngo Mon (Noon Gate) in the imperial capital sparked the opening ceremony of the Hue Festival 2024 on June 7, marking one of the most successful cultural events organised in Hue city for 24 years.

The National Committee on Youth of Vietnam and the National Youth Council of Singapore planned to organise the Vietnam-Singapore Youth Leaders Exchange Programme 2024 in August.

The Aquafina Vietnam International Fashion Week (AVIFW) will launch a series of events to celebrate its 10th anniversary this year.

The Embassy of the Czech Republic in Hanoi has coordinated with the Czech Culture in Vietnam, and the Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum to organize an exhibition entitled “The Magic of Czech Glass” in Hanoi.

MC, actor Quyen Linh, Director of the Cinema Development Center, has just announced the famous guests, including Korean director Kim Han-min, who will attend the upcoming Vietnamese film event.

The British education organisation Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has released the QS World University Rankings 2025(QS WUR 2025). Five out of six Vietnamese universities have seen their improvements in QS WUR 2025.

On June 5, a special art programme to mark the 76th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh’s appeal for patriotic emulation (June 11, 1948-2024) took place in Hanoi.

An art programme which highlighted President Ho Chi Minh’s great contributions to national revolutionary cause and as well as Vietnamese people’s respect and sentiment to him took place in Ho Chi Minh City on June 5.

The exhibition entitled "The Land of Love" from June 2 to 23 in Brussels has attracted a large number of art lovers, including overseas Vietnamese in Belgium and Belgian friends who love Vietnam.

The Kim Dong Publishing House has coordinated with the French Institute in Hanoi to organize a ceremony to launch a comic contest to seek Vietnamese writers to the Angoulême International Comics Festival due to be held in France in January 2025.

Over the past two years, the "Share and Preserve Vietnamese Heritage" project has created a deep connection between Vietnamese and French cultural and heritage agencies.

The Vietnamese team earned 20 gold, 15 silver and 28 bronze medals at the freshly-concluded Southeast Asian Judo Championships 2024 in Indonesia, finishing first on the medal tally.

Hue Festival 2024 promises to be more exciting than ever when welcoming the return of the Royal Merchtem stilt troupe from Belgium.

The masterpiece “Người hát dân ca” (Les Chanteuses de Campagne) by Vietnamese painter Nguyen Phan Chanh will go on display at the "Arts of Asia" exhibition run by Sotheby’s in Paris from June 8 to 13.

On June 5, an art programme entitled “Vietnam – aspiration to rise” will be held in Hanoi to mark the 76th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh’s appeal for patriotic emulation (June 11, 1948-2024).

A new film about President Ho Chi Minh entitled “Vang trang tho au” (The Childhood Moon) will be screened at cinemas nationwide.

On June 1, "Vietnam Festival 2024" opened at Yoyogi Park in Tokyo to introduce unique Vietnamese culture and develop bilateral relations in multiple fields such as economics, politics, and people-to-people exchanges over the past five decades.

National flags of sports delegations to the 13th ASEAN Schools Games (ASG) were raised at the Tien Son Sports Complex in Da Nang city on June 1, marking their official presence at the largest regional sports gathering for school students.

An event titled “Bac Ninh – Kinh Bac Cultural Night” was held in Paris on May 31 to promote cultural values of the northern province of Bac Ninh which is often referred to as Kinh Bac – a land with long history and ancient culture in Vietnam.