VietNamNet Bridge – For nearly a week, peach growers in Hanoi’s famous flower villages of Nhat Tan and Phu Thuong have displayed their products to serve this lunar New Year (Tet holiday).

  The technical crew for Legendary Pictures arrived in Ninh Binh Province on Wednesday to prepare for the company's new film, Kong: Skull Island or Titan, the upcoming King Kong prequel.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Hanoi People's Committee has decided to move the deceased Hoan Kiem turtle to the Museum of Nature (Vietnam Academy of Sciences) for maintenance.

 An art performance praising the beauty of spring opened the Lunar New Year Festival yesterday in downtown Ha Noi.

 A top Vietnamese singer, Ha Tran, has unveiled her latest music project — the indie rock album Ban Nguyen (To the Core), after nearly a decade since the first idea about the project flashed in her mind.

 Top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh on January 20 lost to strong Malaysian rival Goh Soon Huat at the men's singles first-round match of the Malaysia Masters at the Spice Arena in Penang.

  Popular German jazz artist Timo Vollbrecht and his band Fly Magic will put on a concert at the HCMC Conservatory of Music in District 1 on Saturday night.

On New Year's Eve, Hanoi will hold firework displays at 31 places, including six places with high-range performances and 25 places with lower-range performances.

 The 2015 Literature and Art Prizes were awarded to 67 works of literature, fine arts, music, cinema, photo-graphy, dance, folk art and theatrical art yesterday.

 Tet Art 2016, the biggest Vietnamese and foreign art fair of the year, will kick off on January 21 in Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge - After the first two Speake-Marin Dong Son Tourbillon watches were delivered in late November 2015, Speake-Marin continued delivery of the 3rd and 4th to Vietnam.

 Hanoi Ceramic Mosaic Mural, named the world's largest ceramic mosaic by the Guinness Book of Records, is crumbling with neglect.

Work will begin on Nguyen Hue Flower Street in HCM City next Thursday, five days earlier than scheduled, as the project will cover the entire pedestrian area on Nguyen Hue Boulevard, which will be far larger than in previous years.

 Music videos celebrating spring by local composers and singers have seen millions of hits on YouTube.

 A myriad of cultural and artistic activities will be held in the framework of the Spring Festival of the Year of the Monkey, which will opens in Hanoi on January 20 (the 11th of the 12th lunar month) and last through February 5.

 Australian Ambassador to Vietnam Hugh Borrowman on January 18 handed over information boards introducing the Thang Long Royal Citadel to Hanoi People’s Committee.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Master Le Hai Binh, Vice General Secretary of the Vietnam Vovinam Federation, said Vietnam would ask for UNESCO’s recognition of Vovinam as an intangible cultural form.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Saigon Philharmonic Orchestra will launch its 2016 season with a celebration of old world traditions in a contemporary light – the concert entitled “New Worlds”.

 Speeches were delivered at a recent workshop held in the southern province of An Giang, in a bid to create a new vision about the Oc Eo culture.

Senior painter Do Nam has become famous for his works created from wires and Nipah palm trunks. His paintings are popular not only at home but abroad as well.