Over 20 famous singers from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea will appear in Gala Vietnam Top Hits, which will take place at the Lan Anh music stage, Ho Chi Minh City, on January 19.

  Vietnamese and American artists will join hands to stage Broadway performances at the HCMC Conservatory of Music on January 16-17 at 8 p.m.

 The New Year will open with three concerts featuring pop/rock stars in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.

The free entrance Aufschwung concert will take place at the Southern Women’s Museum in HCMC’s District 3 at 7 p.m. on Saturday, marking the start of a series of events which the Saigon Classical Music Group will organize this year.

 The 2016 Hue Festival has been shortened from 10 to six days from April 29 to May 4, announced Deputy Chairman of the People’s Committee of Thua Thien- Hue Nguyen Dung.

 Members of the famous Vietnamese rock band Buc Tuong (The Wall) will rock the Giang Vo Exhibition Centre for a night concert aimed to support its leader Tran Lap, who is in a battle fighting cancer.

 Landscapes and heritage of Morocco and Viet Nam are featured at an exhibition by artist Naima R Deniale, the wife of the Moroccan Ambassador to Viet Nam.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Visitors to the Museum of Cham Sculpture can view three national treasures that are stored and exhibited in the museum of more than 100 years old located in the heart of Da Nang city.

A group of researchers of the Hue Royal Traditional Art Theater has completed a scientific report on restoring the Phu luc dich (Phu luc for the flute), one of the Royal Court popular songs, according to the Hue Monuments Conservation Center.

 The Israeli Embassy in Vietnam will host a week of Vietnamese and Israeli cuisine from January 18 to 24, offering chances for food connoisseurs to figure out similarities in the countries’ cooking styles.

 Authorities of the northern province of Phu Tho have earmarked $202.5 million for upgrading and embellishing the Hung Kings Temple complex, aiming to turn the special national historical site into an attractive tourism destination.

 The Ho Chi Minh City Book Street officially opened on Nguyen Van Binh street, District 1, on January 9, looking to promote the reading habit.

 Photos and paintings capturing Viet Nam and its' people will be on display next Monday in Beijing.

 A lomography exhibition themed ‘No to Sorrow’ taken by photographer Maika Elan is set to get underway at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi from January 14 to 28.

 Famous magazine Missosology has selected Miss Vietnam Thuy Van, Miss Philippines Pia Wurtzbach and Miss Indonesia Maria Harfanti in the Best of 2015, Quotable Quotes category.

The 2015 Vietnamese movie season closed with the victory of "I’m Your Grandmother", as a promising end. More than 40 films were produced, and nearly 30 films went to the local cinemas in 2015 as signaling the "boom" of Vietnamese movies in 2016.

 The Ho Chi Minh City Book Street will be officially opened on Nguyen Van Binh street, District 1, on January 9.

 The Vietnam Federation of UNESCO Associations presented its certificate of patronage of the “Son Nam – Ba Chua Vuc Temple”, part of the Pho Hien relic complex in northern Hung Yen province, on January 6.

 Myanmar has introduced the Vietnamese martial arts Vovinam into the curricula of two national sport academies in Yangon and Mandalay, according to Quan doi Nhan dan (People’s Army) newspaper.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has said that the Kong: Skull Island film crew has completed its survey in Vietnam to start shooting the film in Vietnam in February.