Ai Lao singing and dance is a traditional ritual only seen at the Giong festival in Phu Dong village, Gia Lam district, Hanoi.

  Miss Vietnam 2014 Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen has been widely criticised after a video showed her smoking in a coffee shop was posted online.

 Audience and experts have expressed doubts over the authenticity of the paintings that are on display at Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts, suggesting most of them are fakes.

 Painter Nguyen Thanh Chuong has said a painting he completed in 1970 is currently on display under the name of Ta Ty dated back to 1952 at an exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City.

 A man-made ‘beach’ in Hanoi's Quoc Oai Vi District, the first of this kind in Vietnam, will open to the public in August.

The National Assembly Office held a ceremony in Hanoi on July 15 to receive the national anthem The Marching Song, donated by family members of late composer Van Cao (1923-1995), and to bestow the composer with the Ho Chi Minh Order.

 Nung society has developed close connections in residence, lifestyle, economics, and culture. The Nung live harmoniously and united in a close-knit community.

 HCM City’s cultural authorities’ efforts to promote book reading as a lifelong habit have been successful, drawing a higher number of visitors to recent book exhibitions and fairs in the past six months.

 A performance combining contemporary dance with Vietnamese traditional and ethnic music, entitled Non (Conical Hat), will be held for the first time in Hanoi next week.

 About 1,000 artists from several Southeast Asian countries will perform at a festival in Dong Ha City in the central Quang Tri Province from July 18 to 25.

 Quang Binh is holding a performance week of sailboats on the Nhat Le River in an act to save the tourism industry from the mass fish deaths that have occurred since April.

VietNamNet Bridge – The beauty of Vietnam tourism is very diverse as seen in the winning photos of the 7th photo contest on Vietnam tourism, which closed last week.

 The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will perform operatic extracts by well-known composers at the HCM City Opera House on July 29.

 Anyone who is interested in seeing or acquiring works by some of Vietnam's most prominent artists, is invited to visit the Affordable Art 2016 “7+”, which is taking place at the Dong Phong Art Gallery in Hanoi.

 The Rotten Grapes – the one and only English-speaking Comedy club in Hanoi will present its biggest comedy show ever at L’Espace on Saturday.

 The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will perform Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” at the HCM City Opera House on July 19.

Twenty-one art troupes from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand will join an art festival in Dong Ha city, Quang Tri from July 18-25, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s Department of Performing Arts.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese girls are hunting titles at all kinds of beauty contests in an effort to become famous.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The preliminary round of Miss Vietnam 2016 for contestants from northern provinces is taking place in Hanoi (July 9-16), with the participation of hundreds of young women.

 The central city of Da Nang has proposed that a collection of 11 cannons unearthed at the Dien Hai Citadel between 1979 and 2008 be recognised as a national treasure.