A craft workshop on how to make decoration items from paper will be held by the Friends of Vietnam Heritage on March 23.

 Young dancers of the Buoc Nha (Steps of Dance) Troupe will perform in the show “Buoc Nhay’s Night” featuring contemporary dance on April 7 in HCM City.

 A new LED lighting system has been installed in Yen So Park in Hanoi.

 The ASEAN+3 singing contest 2019, the second of its kind, has been officially launched, open to professional pop singers aged 18-35 from 10 Southeast Asian nations with a view to promoting cultural exchanges in the bloc. 

 “Best English bookstore in Hanoi,” “A heaven for bookaholics”. These are two among many comments of foreigners who have visited Bookworm, a bookshop filled with English books in Hanoi.

 Eight elephants joined a football match among some of their other activities at the on-going Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak.

 A concert will be organized at the Hanoi Opera House on March 26 and 27 to celebrate the 60th birthday of the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet (VNOB).

Singer Tuyet Nga beat off competition from 100 other contestants to be announced as the winner of the Miss Ao Dai Vietnam 2019 during the grand final which was recently held in Singapore.

Cu Lan Village in Dalat is not only renowned for its peaceful beauty but also for its wooden statues that are as rustic and unpretentious as the people of the region.

 The area of But (Pen) Tower at Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake will be lit up green at 8pm on March 16 in response to Ireland’s “Global Greening” campaign, which aims to observe the Irish national holiday, St Patrick’s Day (March 17).

 Several festivals were recently held during the ongoing seventh Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak.

 Vietnamese violin talent, Nguyen Le, has won the first prize at the “12th International Competition Arthur Grumiaux, Belgium-Brussels 2019".

 Phở Thìn – a family-run noodle shop in Hà Nội open for 30 years – has opened its first franchise in Tokyo.

 Nominations for the Devotion Music Awards 2019 hosted by The Thao & Van Hoa (Sports & Culture) newspaper of the Vietnam News Agency were announced at a ceremony in Hanoi on March 12. 

Valeria Vazquez Latorre, Miss Supranational 2018, and Prathamesh Maulingkar, Mister Supranational 2018, arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport on March 11.

A ceremony took place on March 11 in Ban Don district, Dak Lak province, to pray for elephants’ health and the mahouts' safety and prosperity.

 The Ban (Bauhinia) Flower Festival will take place at the Hanoi Museum, the first of its kind in the capital city, from April 4 to 14, according to Hanoimoi newspaper.

 A Black Thai woman in Vietnam’s northwestern region ties her hair into a tall bun on top of her head to indicate that she has got married. A ritual is held to comb and tie up her hair before she goes to her husband’s house.

 The unique festival aims to preserve traditional Vietnamese culture and build international cultural friendships.

 Grammy Award-winning American conductor Jeff von der Schmidt will lead the Hanoi New Music Ensemble in a concert at the Vietnam National Academy of Music on March 22, starting at 8 p.m.