The entertainment industry in the year 2016 offered the masses a wide selection with an increasing number of cultural activities, arts programmes, and reality television shows.

 Nguyen Hue Flower Street, a very popular attraction in HCM City during Tet (Lunar New Year festival) every year, will be ready to welcome visitors on January 25, 2017.

 Vietnamese representative Pham Thuy Linh won the best costume award at the 19th Miss Tourism International which has recently taken place in Malaysia. 

Yasushi Ogura opened Cà phê Cực Bắc or the northernmost coffee house in Lo Lo Chai village which is a must stop for visitors on their journey to the lung Cu Flag Tower. 

It’s that time of year— when we look back at the last 12 months and reflect. Here’s a compilation of the nine best photos that came out of Vietnam for 2016.

 The year that is about to end has presented pageant fans with 8 beautiful winners, who participated in some of the greatest pageants in the globe— filled with excitement, originality and glamour.

 Cao Thon is a village over 200 years old and also one of the oldest incense-making villages in Vietnam. It has become busy these days to prepare for the approaching Lunar New Year holiday.

 The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on December 29 announced the top 10 culture, sports and tourism events in 2016, which were voted by 125 journalists representing media agencies across the country.

The Thang Long–Hanoi Heritage Conservation Centre organised a symposium in Hanoi on December 28 to announce a preliminary report on excavation results at the Kinh Thien Palace site in Thang Long Royal Citadel.

 The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on December 27 announced the top 10 events of the sector in 2016. The list includes nine fine arts events and one photographic event.

The HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera will present a melange of ballroom dances like waltz, tango, mambo, and polka and Hungarian dance with music by well-known composers at the HCMC Opera House on December 29 to celebrate the New Year.

 It has been unveiled that Indian actress Toral Rasputra best known for her role of Priyanka Sethi in Disney Channel India's superhot show, Dhoom Machaao Dhoom will visit Vietnam in January 2017.

 A concert featuring masterpieces of classical music by composer Ludwig van Beethoven will be held at the French Cultural Exchange Center, L'Espace, in Hanoi on December 28-29.

 Continuing an annual tradition, the University of Science and Technology will hold a Japanese New Year’s Day Celebration – Oshogatsu – on January 8, 2017 at its campus in Hanoi.

 The famed mountain town of  Sa Pa in Lao Cai Province kicked off its first Snow Festival on Saturday, with the barometer showing 9 degrees Celsius.

 Phuong Nam art theater will cooperate with Happy Dream Circus to host Japanese circus shows from December 23 to February 19 at Gia Dinh Park in Go Vap District, HCMC.

 2016 was an eventful year for Vietnamese fine arts, as it saw efforts by artists and managers to create and build a healthy and professional fine arts market despite numerous limitations and difficulties.

Nguyen Hue Flower Street 2017, an annual biggest and most anticipated event welcoming the lunar New Year will be opened to the public at 7 p.m. on January 25 and run until the evening of January 31.

 A set of stamps themed ‘Year of the Rooster’ has recently been issued by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) to welcome in the lunar New Year 2017 and the year of the Rooster in Eastern culture.

 Famous composer Nguyen Quoc Trung has just called on local artists to boycott comedian Minh Beo who has just returned to Vietnam after serving nine months in jail in the US for child sexual assault.