Painter Nguyen Thu Thuy, Director of the New Hanoi Art Company, received a bronze medal at the 10th International Design Award (IDA) ceremony held on June 10 in Los Angeles, the US.

 The central province of Quang Nam’s Dinh Tran Thanh Chiem, an important political, military, economic and cultural centre established in 1602 in the Nguyen Dynasty was recognised as a national relic site on June 12.

 The 2017 Vietnam-Asia Silk and Brocade Culture Festival opens in Hoi An silk village in the central province of Quang Nam on June 12.

 Rural Vietnamese landscapes are portrayed in original lacquered paintings at an exhibition which is taking place in Hanoi.

 A contemporary art centre was inaugurated in Hanoi on June 6, becoming the city’s the largest-scale and most unique art centre.

 The Dam Sen Water Park in HCM City has just sent apologies to their customers after their recent show featuring female dancers in bikinis caused public outcry.

Generations of ethnic groups in the Central Highlands have used gongs to convey their innermost sentiments and communicate with their deities.

Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia has bagged the Arcasia Awards for Architecture 2017 of the Architects Regional Council Asia.

VietNamNet Bridge – A dance show by talented choreographers Nguyen Phuc Hai and Nguyen Phuc Hung will be organized at the HCM City Opera House, 7 Lam Son Square on June 17.

VietNamNet Bridge - A music concert by Swedish jazz professor, pianist Håkan Rydin and fellow jazz musicians from the Vietnam National Academy of Music, will take place on June 16-17.

VietNamNet Bridge - Three movies from America, Europe and Iran will be screened in Hanoi this week.

 The Nha Trang - Khanh Hoa Sea Festival 2017 opened in Nha Trang city, the central province of Khanh Hoa on June 10, featuring a wide range of cultural and artistic activities. 

“Idioms and proverbs of Vietnam” is among very few books that introduce idioms and proverbs with eye-catching illustrations. In its first publication, the book has won reader’s love with thousands of editions sold. 

 Monsoon Music Festival (MMF), Vietnam’s biggest music event, will now be celebrated annually as part of an ambitious plan to develop culture in the capital through 2020, with a vision to 2030. 

Authorities have turned the famous Hue citadel into a night attraction, with the former palace hosting programmes reflecting life during the heydays of the Nguyen Dynasty.

 During Vietnam’s imperial era, the country’s old capital, Hue, became home to many lotus ponds grown to fit the needs of the royal family.

 Rural Vietnamese landscapes are portrayed in original lacquered paintings at a new exhibition in Hanoi that started yesterday.

 Thousands of Vietnamese and Japanese visitors flocked to the opening ceremony of the 10th Vietnam Festival in Tokyo, Japan, on June 10.

 Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam lauded the central province of Quang Nam for building itself into one of the favourite tourism destinations in the country when addressing the opening ceremony of the sixth Quang Nam Heritage Festival on June 9 night.

 The eighth European-Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on June 9.