Vietnam Fitness Model Contest 2017, co-organized by Blue Sky Travel Co. and Rising Star Media Joint Stock Company, on Monday kicked off its second season in HCMC. 

 Around 33 countries and territories will participate in the 6th Quang Nam Heritage Festival that is scheduled to take place on June 7-14.

 Some 300 paintings created by children from different regions of Vietnam this year are on display at the Vietnam Cultural Arts Exhibition Centre in Hanoi.

 The non-governmental organisation Poussieres de Vie will host a live charity concert with French singer and songwriter Joyce Jonathan at Ben Thanh Theatre on June 6.

 A free classical music concert featuring prize-winning Vietnamese musicians will be held at the Cultural Salon – Saturday Coffee on June 19.

 Japan’s Miura Fumiaki, one of the most talented violinists of his generation, will perform at the Hanoi Opera House with renowned pianist Akira Eguchi on June 4.

 Japanese artist Daimo Eriko will perform in a concert that will be held at Hanoi Opera House on June 3.

Forty-eight stone tools and thousands of ceramic pieces dating back to the pre-Sa Huynh Culture (3,000-3,500 years-old) were found during a third excavation in the garden of the Khue Bac Communal House in Da Nang City.

Since 2007, meritorious Artisan Pham Van Vang has nurtured the idea of restoring the ancient local Bo Bat pottery craft, an art which had been lost for around ten centuries. 

 French breakdance artist Valentine Nagata-Ramos will perform in the Japanese tragedy Sadako at the HCM City Institute of Cultural Exchange with France (IDECAF) on June 9 as part of her Asian tour.

 The executive board has announced the start of the search for Vietnam Fitness Model 2017, reports the HanoiMoi Online Newspaper.

 This tiny room is where painter Do Lenh Tuan creates hundreds of postage stamp paintings.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Institut Français de Hanoi – L’Espace – will screen the French film “La belle et la bête” (Beauty and the Beast) on June 4 at 24 Trang Tien Street, Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The exhibition by Danish photographer Nikolaj Svennevig is now underway at Huong Ngo Art Space, 89 Ma May Street, Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – “La Chèvre” - a movie starring French actor Gérard Depardieu – will be screened at Institut Français de Hanoi – L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien Street, Hanoi on June 2 and June 4.

VietNamNet Bridge - In the last week of the British Literature on Screen month in Hanoi, “Pride & Prejudice" directed by Joe Wrightwill be screened in Hanoi on June 2.

French singer and songwriter, Joyce Jonathan will give a performance at the French Cultural ExchangeCenter, L'Espace, in Hanoi on June 8.

 The eighth edition of the festival is set to take place on June 9-18 in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City within the framework of activities launched by the network of the European cultural institutes and embassies (EUNIC) in Vietnam.

 Since the advent of mass media, books no longer have a monopoly on entertainment. But there are still people who are quietly passionate about collecting books and newspapers.

A proposal to ban the sale of alcohol in karaoke parlours by the Ministry of Health under a freshly released draft law on alcohol harm prevention has sparked public concern.