Museum visitors can now use their smartphone to explore and understand artifacts with Friendly Guide, an application recently developed by a group of IT students, without the help of a museum guide.

 The 15th Việt Nam Poem Day will be held on February 11 at the Temple of Literature in Hà Nội.

 Vietnam’s biggest, most important traditional festival, Tet (Lunar New Year Festival), is a time of renewal, a time to welcome Spring, a time to thank Gods and ancestors and pray for their blessings. 

 Kilns in Dia Linh Village, in the central Thua Thien-Hue Province are burning these days so that the last batches of Vietnamese kitchen god statues can be baked before the end of the year.

 A beauty pageant was launched in HCM City on Tuesday to popularise and promote Viet Nam’s tourism industry.

Miss Earth 2015 Angelia Ong, Miss Tourism India 2015 Sneha Mahesh Jagiasi, and Miss Tourism World 2015 Sara Stojanovic attended a press conference of Miss Tourism Vietnam 2017 held in HCM City yesterday.

 Three sculptures and 20 paintings by renowned Vietnamese and other Southeast Asian artists will go under the hammer at an auction in HCM City this Saturday.

 The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has lifted the ban on nude photography which took effect in May and met with opposition from many photographers.

 Well-known Belgian DJ Attar will have sole performances in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on December 12 and 18, respectively, on the occasion of Dynasty Day.

A photo of a woman making fishing nets in Phan Rang City, Vietnam has come first in Open Colour category in Siena International Photography Awards 2016.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The three regions of Vietnam – the north, the south and central – look amazing in photos taken by aerial cameras by amateur photographer Le The Thang,

 Artists from the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet will perform the romantic ballet “Giselle”at the Hanoi Opera House on October 21 and 22. 

 Paintings with numerous ideas, materials and topics by 52 young artists are on display at the exhibition “Today” at Hanoi Creative City, 1 Luong Yen Str, Hanoi.

 The movie Trung So (Jackpot) is the only Vietnamese representative at the 25th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival in Tangshan, in north China’s Heibei Province.

 Brushes and oil are two main tools that Nguyen Dam Thuy uses to paint her dream of a green earth.

 Vietnamese Nha Phuong won the Asian Star award at the Seoul International Drama Awards last night.

 Overseas Vietnamese comedian Van Son, the owner of The V Show theater, will run The Amazing V Show in District 3, HCMC to serve locals and foreign tourists to the city.

 The southern region’s largest exhibition this year, featuring 200 paintings and sculptures, is on display at the Tien Giang Conference Centre in Can Tho City. 

 A man-made ‘beach’ in Hanoi's Quoc Oai Vi District, the first of this kind in Vietnam, will open to the public in August.