A wide range of book titles are being showcased at 14 booths during the third Vietnamese Book Day, which opened in the northern province of Ninh Binh on April 8.

The Border Guard Command of central Quang Binh province announced on April 8 that it had handled a case of six Chinese fishing boats encroaching on Vietnamese waters.

 People in the central coastal city of Da Nang will have a chance to see cherry blossoms at the first Hanami festival to be held at Asia Park on April 9-10.

 Fashion designer Kelly Bui has announced she will attend the next instalment of Shanghai Fashion Week, Southern China.

 The traditional craft of making bánh tráng phơi sương (dew-wetted rice paper) in Trang Bang District, Tay Ninh Province, has been recognised as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage.

 The YDA Club, a cinema club dedicated to Vietnamese movies in Paris’ District 5, will present three short movies by Vietnamese independent filmmakers on April 16.

 Many famous Vietnamese singers make tens of thousands of dollars performing at wedding parties of rich families.

 Hardcore Vietnam will present the biggest heavy music concert in Vietnam on April 9, featuring 13 rock bands from several Asian countries.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Gold books and other royal gold objects of the Nguyen Dynasty are on display at the Vietnam National Museum of History in Hanoi from now until August.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The blockbusters "The Huntsman: Winter's War", "The Jungle Book" and "Captain America: Civil War" will be released at Vietnamese cinemas in the first month of the summer movie season.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese student Ninh Duc Hoang Long won the first prize of an international prestigious opera contest Simandy Jozsef International Singing Competition held in Szeged, Hungary on April 3.

 The Sheraton Phu Quoc Resort designed by Vo Trong Nghia won the 2016 Green Era Award.

 The reality television show, Miss Ao Dai Vietnam 2016 – Road to Miss World Crown will be aired on VTV6 channel starting on April 5.

 Vietnam’s best fashion designers and their international counterparts will show their collections in the third Vietnam International Fashion Week.

 Twenty-seven artists and technicians from Opera Australia will delight music lovers in Hanoi with the famous opera La Bohème to be held at the Hanoi Opera House on April 10.

Several film-makers in Vietnam have raised doubts over the VND700bil. ($31.8m) in revenue that was claimed to have been earned by local films in 2015 when the figures were announced at a workshop held on March 28 in Hanoi.

 April 4 was officially announced as Day of “Pho”, Vietnam’s signature noodle soup, in Japan during a ceremony at EXPO City Osaka complex in the country on April 2.

In recent years, local choreographers and dancers have brought dance close to the people, who often ignored this art form in the past. 

  Artists of the HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will stage the popular Cinderella ballet at the HCMC Opera House on April 8 and 9.

Dragon Bridge, which spans the Han River in the central city of Da Nang, won the 2016 American Society of Civil Engineers Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award.