“The Ballerina,” a ballet show directed by Nguyen Ngoc Anh and performed by artists of the Arabesque dance troupe, will be staged at the HCMC Opera House at 8 p.m. on September 23 and 24.

 A concert featuring love songs from Korean movies will take place at Hanoi Opera House on September 30.

 The traditional German festival will return to Vietnam in late September, with special treats to celebrate the 25th milestone.

 More than 100 women from all over the northern region are expected to gather at the Intercontinental Hotel in Westlake on September 18 for the launch of the preliminary rounds of the Miss Ocean beauty contest.

 The HCM City Department of Tourism, in co-operation with its partners, will organise a free fashion and technology festival on Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street next month.     

 The Ministry of Construction announced on Monday that the national history museum project will be implemented in 2021 at the earliest.

Literature on Hue royal architecture was honored as a world documentary heritage, the third of the Nguyen dynasty which ruled Vietnam between 1802 and 1945. 

 Police in HCM City are investigating an attack against director of the Kong: Skull Island movie, Jordan Vogt-Roberts at a local bar.

Local designer Do Trinh Hoai Nam has recently introduced his latest Ao Dai (Vietnamese traditional long dress) collection at the Couture Fashion Week in New York.

 A new exhibition shows audiences the perspectives of eight photographers from France and Viet Nam on contemporary dance in the two countries.

 The Japan-Vietnam Festival 2017 is scheduled to take place in January next year, instead of November like in previous years.

 Kim Dung, 24, from the nothern province of Nam Dinh was declared ‘Vietnam’s Next Top Model All Stars 2017” at the contest that ended on September 9 in Ho Chi Minh City.

 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) this year is set to transpire in Vietnam, Japan and Hong Kong (China), reports CJ E&M, a Republic of Korean entertainment and media contents company.

 This is the first time US visitor Brian Herman has visited the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology. He was impressed by the area where costumes and items relating to ethnic groups and their weddings, funeral ceremonies and other spirituals are on display.

 Vietnam will present the classic film, Bao Gio Cho Den Thang Muoi (When October Comes) at ASEAN Film Festival 2017, which kicked off in Cambodia on September 8.

The HCM City will open a new pedestrian-only book street on Nguyen Dong Chi Street in District 7 in October, offering a series of activities promoting reading culture for more than 300,000 residents in districts 7, 2 and 8. 

 A rare Vietnamese satin, called My A, will be featured in clothes for women and men by young fashion designers at the catwalk event "The Dreamers" in HCM City next month. 

After an initial visual survey, a Quang Binh expert said that the grave recently unearthed by local farmers is not an ancient one, but actually dates to the era of the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945). 

 The Arieu Ping, which means exhumation, is the biggest celebration of the Pa Ko to show respect and piety of the living people for the deceased.

 The Ministry of Construction has proposed to the prime minister to give more funding to the National History Museum project which will cost a gigantic VND11.3 trillion (US$500 million).