Local designer Nguyen Cong Tri has been busy preparing his latest collections for the Vietnam International Fashion Week 2018 (VIFW) scheduled for April 19-22 in HCM City.

 An exhibition of paintings by 70 women artists, highlighting women and love, opened in HCM City on Thursday.      

Vietnam and Poland will perform in the curtain-raiser of the 2018 Da Nang International Fireworks Festival on the central city’s Han River on April 30.

 Female sculptor Le Thi Hien is holding her first solo exhibition, which will open from 5pm today at the Viet Nam Fine Arts Museum.

 The charm of Vietnamese traditional Ao Dai (long dress) was the main theme of a talk in HCM City on March 8 as part of the fifth Ao Dai festival in the city.

More than 150 photos will be on display at an exhibition themed “Truong Sa Vitality – the Colour of Youth”, which will be held in Hanoi, Hung Yen and Lam Dong from March 9 to April 22.

 Vietnamese musicians Nguyen Le and Ngo Hong Quang have been nominated for Echo Jazz 2018, a prestigious jazz award hosted by the ACT Music recording company.

 The Vietnamese film O Day Co Nang (Here Comes The Sun) will compete at the 6th Seoul Guro International Kids Film Festival 2018 (GUKIFF) from May 10 to 17.

Vietnamese representative Huong Giang and the other 27 Miss International Queen 2018 contestants put their wonderful figures on display to strike alluring poses for the pageant’s swimsuit competition in Pattaya, Thailand on March 7.

Singer Huong Giang and other contestants of the Miss International Queen 2018 transgender beauty pageant have enjoyed a relaxing time on Thai beach before entering the final round scheduled for March 9.

When spring comes around with flowers seen everywhere, thousands of young people and families come to the book street in Hanoi, where a festival named “Doai Area welcomes spring” is organised. 

 The third International Food Festival will be held from March 14-17 in the ancient city of Hoi An, Quang Nam province, with the participation of 12 famous chefs from around the world.

 The third VGA Union Cup is scheduled to take place at the Long Thanh Golf Course in the southern province of Dong Nai on March 21.

 A film on French playwright and director Marine Bachelot Nguyen’s Les Ombres Et Les Lèvres (Gays and Lesbians), a production on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Viet Nam, will be screened in HCM City on Tuesday’s night.

 Do Trinh Hoai Nam from Hanoi has been selected as designer of the year 2017 at the fifth annual Áo dài Festival being held in HCM City.

 Around 148 new books by Vietnamese and international authors have been released as part of Tháng 3 Sách Trẻ (Youth Books in March) programme.

 The fourth Steinway Youth Piano Competition will launch the countrywide audition round on March 20 to select the national winner to represent Vietnam at the regional final in Taiwan.

 The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has announced that the recent construction at Cai Ha Mountain inside Trang An Heritage Site in the northern province of Ninh Binh by a local tourism company violated the Culture Heritage Law.

Vietnamese representative Huong Giang has shown off her hot bikini body at the international transgender pageant Miss International Queen 2018 in Thailand before entering the final night scheduled for March 9.

Singer Huong Giang Idol has dressed up beautifully in a traditional Thai costume along with the foreign contestants of the transgender beauty pageant “Miss International Queen 2018”.