Water puppetry - Vietnam's unique art form

 The 2018 national traditional rowing contest opened in Phan Thiet city of the central province of Binh Thuan on June 10.

 Miss Vietnam Heritage Global 2018 is now accepting applications from Vietnamese women worldwide, according to the organising board of the beauty pageant.

 Hanoians will have a chance to sample different kinds of Korean food at K-FOOD Fair which will take place at My Dinh Stadium in Hanoi on June 9-10.

 The Performing Arts Department under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has officially granted license to model Nguyen Thi Chi to compete in the Miss Asia World scheduled for June 9-29 in Beirut, Lebanon.

 A photo exhibition on Vietnamese land and people is on-going in Ukraine to strengthen the friendship between the two countries. The event is part of the Vietnamese Culture Year in the East European nation.

Solo exhibition “Perfect Reality” by artist Luu Tuyen was opened to visitors at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum in Hanoi on June 6. 

 Two flamenco and classical guitar concerts by Michel Grizard and Helena Cueto will be hosted by L’Espace on June 21 and 23.

 A photo exhibition on Vietnamese land and people is being held in Ukraine from June 5-8 to strengthen the friendship between the two countries.

Speaker Pujita Guha from Jawaharlal Nehru University’s School of Arts and Aesthetics will host the “A Visitor to the Forest” talk at Hanoi DocLab on June 15 starting 6:30 p.m. The talk will be in English, with Vietnamese translation.

 Talented flutist Le Thu Huong and her friends will bring music lovers in Hanoi a concert “Parfums de Paris” (Perfumes of Paris) at L'Espace French Cultural Centre in Hanoi, at 8pm, on June 9.

 The Department of Performing Arts has given Phan Thi Mo permission to participate in the World Miss Tourism Ambassador 2018 in Thailand this July.   

 Mozart’s most famous opera The Magic Flute will be restaged at the Ho Chi Minh City Opera House on June 9 and 10.

 Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thien has decided to present certificates of merit to acrobatic brothers Giang Quoc Nghiep and Giang Quoc Co for their impressive performance in the 2018 Britain’s Got Talent final.

Vietnamese opera student Ninh Duc Hoang Long has just won the first prize in his category in a Hungarian TV talent show.

 The show “Summer Symphony” is taking place at the Hanoi Opera House on June 5 and 6, bringing together artists from Vietnam and Japan.

Nguyen Thi Dan has made lotus tea in Hanoi's Tay Ho District for 70 years. To make a kilo of good lotus tea, she plucks the flowers that are about to blossom and separates the petals, stamen and pistil. 

 In Marianne Smolska’s new series entitled Phu Du (Ephemeral), delicate monochrome motifs of skulls, wilted flowers, brambles, roots and chrysalises intertwine with embroidery on handmade Lao and Vietnamese paper.

 Italian opera singers will perform with the Vietnamese Sun Symphony tonight at the Hanoi Opera House.

The Envoy’s Journey to China of the Nguyen Huy family in Ha Tinh has just been listed as one of documentary heritage in Asia and the Pacific under UNESCO’s Memory of the World programme.