French contemporary artist Lionel Descostes recently came back to Vietnam from a solo exhibition in Bangkok where he showcased his handmade embroidery pieces, which are the result of his years’ work in Vietnam.

Jeannie Mai, a Vietnamese-American TV host, left a deep impression on young audiences at a meeting last week at the American Center in HCMC where she shared her thoughts on life, career and ways to success.

 The Asian Youth Orchestra will have two special concerts in Hanoi on August 17-18.

 Dozens of art troupes in HCM City are presenting special programmes to celebrate Vu Lan, the Buddhist festival held during the seventh lunar month every year, which shows gratitude to motherly love.  

“Long Thanh will lachen”, the German documentary about an Orange Agent/Dioxin victim in Vietnam, is one of eight nominations for the News and Current Affairs category of the Emmy Awards this year.

For the first time, the popular play Truong Ba’s Soul, Butcher’s Body will be performed by the Thang Long Puppetry Theatre.

DJ Heyder Eliyev from Azerbaijan will perform at the Fun Beach Festival, a music festival, at East Sea Park in Da Nang City on August 12-14.

 A number of prehistoric artefacts have been discovered for the first time at two caves in the northern mountainous province of Bac Kan. 

 Conductor Le Phi Phi and the Vietnam Symphony Orchestra will perform music works by Schubert, Drovak and Chopin at the Symphony Vo. 93 in Hanoi on August 24-25.

Vietnam’s teen band Soul Club founded by music composer Thanh Bui has won gold prize at the 4th Asia Arts Festival in Singapore.

 Nearly 100 competitors will take part in the kite festival Da Nang Colours on My Khe Beach in Son Tra District on August 27-28.

An exhibition and a talk about the book “My little museum of natural history” by Henry Desmet and Sandrine Mercier on the occasion of publishing it in Vietnamese will be held at L'Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi in late August.

 The statue of Jade Buddha for Universal Peace will be on display at Phu Lien Pagoda in northern Thai Nguyen province this month, on the celebration of the Buddist Vu Lan festival. 

 The cartoon “Oggy and the Cockroaches” (France, 2013, 80 mins) is being screened at L'Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi on August 14, at 4pm.

VietNamNet Bridge - Nearly a month after the video clip featuring Miss Vietnam 2014 Ky Duyen smoking at a café was posted on the Internet, the Miss Vietnam pageant organizing board has made the final decision on the case.

 Tran Thi Thu Ngan overcame 38 other candidates to be crowned the first Miss Vietnam Global Heritage 2016 in the finale of the pageant at FLC Samson Beach & Golf Resort in the north central province of Thanh Hoa on August 7.

 Come to the film screening “Toute première fois” (I Kissed a Girl) (France, 2015, 98’) at L'Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi on August 12 and 14. The film is not suitable for children under 16 years old.

Artist UuDam Nguyen will talk about the process of collaborating with application developers and programers to build the License 2 Draw app as part of his work of the same name at the Innovation Week 2016. 

 Pop singer Son Tung M-TP has been accused of plagiarising Charlie Puth's latest hit, the Heyder Remix of We Don't Talk Anymore.

VietNamNet Bridge - Below are some of more than 100 photos of the wildlife by Andy Nguyen and Dang My Hanh, which were on display at an exhibition in Hanoi from August 4-7.