A Philippine art troupe will come to perform in Hanoi and Thanh Hoa City tonight and tomorrow.

VietNamNet Bridge - Following are the most outstanding contestants of the Miss Vietnam 2016 pageant. 

 Rock band Scorpions will entertain fans in Hanoi during the annual Monsoon Music Festival 2016 which is scheduled for October 21-23.

An online e-book trading platform is to be launched in Vietnam, the first of its kind in the country, with a view to boosting the local e-book market, according to the Sai Gon Giai phong (Liberated Saigon) daily. 

 The Ministry of Planning and Investment has approved the construction of a 490-ha safari park worth VNĐ1 trillion ($44.6 million) inside a protected forest in the resort city of Da Lat in Lam Dong Province. 

Thousands of locals and tourists flocked to the ancient town of Hoi An to celebrate the 14th annual Hoi An-Japan Cultural Festival yesterday.

 The Management Board of Hoa Lo Prison historical relic site in Hanoi on August 15 received valuable remembrances from the family of Water Eugene Wilber, a US pilot who was detained in the prison from 1968 to 1973. 

 Disco band Boney M and Chris Norman, former lead singer of the Smokie band, will perform in Hanoi this October.

Vietnamese cultural television channel NetViet - VTC10 has recently officially launched terrestrial digital broadcast in the US state of California, under the system of the television station Kaza TV.

 Archaeologists have found traces of humans who lived 8,000-9,000 years ago in two caves in the northern province of Bac Kan.

 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. 

 King Tu Duc, the longest reigning monarch of the Nguyen Dynasty, was brought to life this week in a new stage play.

French contemporary artist Lionel Descostes recently came back to Vietnam from a solo exhibition in Bangkok where he showcased his handmade embroidery pieces, which are the result of his years’ work in Vietnam.

Jeannie Mai, a Vietnamese-American TV host, left a deep impression on young audiences at a meeting last week at the American Center in HCMC where she shared her thoughts on life, career and ways to success.

 The Asian Youth Orchestra will have two special concerts in Hanoi on August 17-18.

 Dozens of art troupes in HCM City are presenting special programmes to celebrate Vu Lan, the Buddhist festival held during the seventh lunar month every year, which shows gratitude to motherly love.  

“Long Thanh will lachen”, the German documentary about an Orange Agent/Dioxin victim in Vietnam, is one of eight nominations for the News and Current Affairs category of the Emmy Awards this year.

For the first time, the popular play Truong Ba’s Soul, Butcher’s Body will be performed by the Thang Long Puppetry Theatre.

DJ Heyder Eliyev from Azerbaijan will perform at the Fun Beach Festival, a music festival, at East Sea Park in Da Nang City on August 12-14.

 A number of prehistoric artefacts have been discovered for the first time at two caves in the northern mountainous province of Bac Kan.