Hanoi will be hosting its first Singapore Festival on March 23-24 with a wide range of cultural activities.

The Cau Ngu festival, an annual festival where fisherman pray for a good haul of fish from their catch, took place in Khanh Hoa between March 16 to 18.

 Opportunities along with challenges to online education in the context of the fourth industrial revolution were the main theme of the International Conference on Online Education 2019 (ICOE 2019) held in Ho Chi Minh City on March 15. 

 Pork sales at supermarkets and food stores have increased sharply as more and more customers are opting to buy the meat with clear origins due to the outbreak of African swine fever.

 Hanoi People's Court on Thursday started the first trial in the intellectual property infringement between a local company and a renowned director over the popular The Quintessence of Tonkin show.

 The Vincom Center for Contemporary Arts in Hanoi will hold an exhibition titled “Reflective Impressions: van Gogh & his works” from March 8 to April 9.

 Female artist Xuan Ha of Da Nang will introduce her site-specific installation in HCM City on Sunday night.  

The sixth ao dai festival kicked off on March 2 at the Nguyen Hue pedestrian street in downtown Ho Chi Minh City.

 Nguyen Thanh Tam, a retired teacher in HCMC, has created miniatures of U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un from eggshells.

 The sixth Ao Dai (long dress) Festival in Ho Chi Minh City is set to take place from March 2 to 17 in various tourist spots of the city, heard a press conference held in the city on February 26. 

 Hanoi University of Science and Technolgy has been selected in top 500 world strongest universities ranking by subjects 2019 by the education network Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

 Referring to the melody of the Central Highlands gongs, people often refer to boys, carrying big gongs and beating and dancing to the music with the majestic sound of the Central Highlands. 

Global manufacturers are speeding up their pace of FDI diversion and relocation from China to Vietnam as a result of the US – China trade war, according to HSBC in its latest report. 

 Saxophonist Katsura Yamauchi will perform from 6pm to 8pm on March 16 at Salon Saigon on 6d Ngo Thoi Nhiem Street in HCM City’s District 3.

 Although the US-China trade tension impacted negatively investors' sentiment during the end of 2018, postive signals about the US-China agreement have partly helped boost Vietnam’s market confidence.

 The 4th international conference on Vietnamese literature and the 3rd international poetry festival opened in Hanoi on February 16 with the participation of nearly 200 poets, writers and translators from 46 countries and territories around the world.

Pianists Trần Thị Tâm Ngọc and Phạm Quỳnh Trang of the Mây Piano Duo will perform a special concert next month at the French Cultural Centre, L’Espace, in central Hà Nội.

Printing woodblocks are precious items used in Vietnam during feudal times.Those relating to the architecture and construction of the Thang Long imperial citadel are crucial in Vietnam’s history.

 Mozart’s The Magic Flute will be staged at 8pm on March 31 at the HCM City Opera House at 7 Lam Son Square in District 1.

Many universities plan to offer new courses to attract more students and meet the market demand for human resources.