VietNamNet Bridge – The “Royal Place Night” program took place in Hue Royal Citadel on May 1 evening to show visitors life in the forbidden palace of the Nguyen Dynasty at night.

The exhibition "Cultural imprints of Hue ancient capital and the Red River Delta through traditional craft products" at Hue Festival 2016 introduced over 300 unique artifacts and craft products.

  Nguyen The Vinh, the 15-year-old winner of the national round of the Steinway International Youth Piano Competition 2016, will represent Vietnam in the Asia-Pacific regional round.

 The 10th European Food Festival, a day of authentic European cooking demonstrations by chefs from leading hotels and restaurants in Hanoi, will take place on May 14 in the gardens of the National Library in the capital.

 Water puppetry is a typical artistic genre in the Red River Delta. It is closely associated with Vietnam’s wet rice civilization.

Vietnamese movie "Toi Thay Hoa Vang Tren Co Xanh" (I See Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass” has won in the Best Feature Film category of the Young People’s Jury Award – part of the annual TIFF Kids International Film Festival in Toronto, Canada.

The Department of Culture and Sports of HCM City has banned model Ngo Quynh Mai from performances and imposed $1,000 fine for her participation in the Asia's Next Top Model competition without a license.

 An ancient Champa well was recently discovered in Huong An commune, Que Son district in the central province of Quang Nam.

  Vietnam’s largest poetry book entitled “Hoa Lu Thi Tap” received the World Records Union’s (Worldkings) certificate for the World’s Unique Epic at a ceremony held in Hanoi on May 5.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Taiwanese singer, actress and MC Dee Hsu took a set of fashion pictures in the Hanoi Old Quarter on May 2-3.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 20 Hollywood, Vietnamese and Asian movies will be screened at cinemas in Vietnam in May.

 Lao Dong (Labour) newspaper reporter Viet Van won first prize in the International Color Awards – Los Angeles in the US for his photo entitled “The Breakfast” in the food category.

VietNamNet Bridge - Let's see what women in Saigon wore in the 1960s. Their fashion is not different from today's, which was modern and elegant.

 On Friday at 6.30pm, Manzi Art Space will launch the solo exhibition Into Darkness by artist Vũ Kim Thư.

 Internationally renowned German jazz singer Michael Schiefel will unite musicians from Europe and Vietnam in a gala concert in Hanoi next week.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Thousands of artifacts of the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945) are on display at the Museum of Hue Royal Antiquities, attracting many visitors each day.

 New TV shows featuring Vietnamese singers and bands attracting thousands of fans are not a rare sight in the industry.

 The Vietnam National Academy of Music has unveiled that it will present Hungarian pianist Adam Gyorgy, one of the world’s finest classical musicians, in concert on May 6 in Ho Chi Minh City.

 Artists from Italy, Poland and Germany and Vietnam will join forces to stage a jazz concert to mark European Days at the HCMC Opera House at 8 pm on May 11.

 The bilingual Vietnamese-German edition of “Truyen Kieu” (The Tale of Kieu) was launched in Berlin on May 1 under the auspices of the Association of Vietnamese Businesses in Germany.