Smile For You, a classical concert that aims to spread love and sympathy to impoverished and underprivileged children, will take place at V-Art Club inside the Indochina Plaza Hanoi this Saturday night.

The Radio and Television Station of Binh Thuan Province has stopped broadcasting the Chinese television series “Shanghai Bund”after the film’s actors had protested the Permanent Court of Arbitration's ruling on the East Sea..

 More than 221 brilliant performances will be delivered by artists from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand during the art festival to foster solidarity among ASEAN nations, which opened in the central province of Quang Tri on July 18.

 The Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre on July 18 received a certificate recognising its Nghinh Ong or whale worshipping festival as national intangible cultural heritage, the first of its kind in the locality.

 Four actors and actresses, Shiddharth Shukla, Avinask Mukherjee, Aasiya Kazi and Roop Durgapal, starring in Balika Vadhu (Child Bride), have visited Vietnam and met with fans.

 Beating other talented contestants, Ho Van Cuong from the southern Tien Giang Province has won the first season of Vietnam Idol Kids 2016.

Events in Vietnam's major cities from July 15-30. Daily updated

 Vietnam’s most in-vogue songstress, Ho Ngoc Ha, will appear on July 29 before an audience in Hanoi with a series of ballads.

 Vietnamese artists have choreographed a dance routine based on images found at an Oc Eo archaeological site in southeastern An Giang Province.

 Ai Lao singing and dance is a traditional ritual only seen at the Giong festival in Phu Dong village, Gia Lam district, Hanoi.

  Miss Vietnam 2014 Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen has been widely criticised after a video showed her smoking in a coffee shop was posted online.

 Audience and experts have expressed doubts over the authenticity of the paintings that are on display at Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts, suggesting most of them are fakes.

 Painter Nguyen Thanh Chuong has said a painting he completed in 1970 is currently on display under the name of Ta Ty dated back to 1952 at an exhibition in Ho Chi Minh 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.

The National Assembly Office held a ceremony in Hanoi on July 15 to receive the national anthem The Marching Song, donated by family members of late composer Van Cao (1923-1995), and to bestow the composer with the Ho Chi Minh Order.

 Nung society has developed close connections in residence, lifestyle, economics, and culture. The Nung live harmoniously and united in a close-knit community.

 HCM City’s cultural authorities’ efforts to promote book reading as a lifelong habit have been successful, drawing a higher number of visitors to recent book exhibitions and fairs in the past six months.

 A performance combining contemporary dance with Vietnamese traditional and ethnic music, entitled Non (Conical Hat), will be held for the first time in Hanoi next week.

 About 1,000 artists from several Southeast Asian countries will perform at a festival in Dong Ha City in the central Quang Tri Province from July 18 to 25.

 Quang Binh is holding a performance week of sailboats on the Nhat Le River in an act to save the tourism industry from the mass fish deaths that have occurred since April.