Around 200 kinds of southern fruits will be displayed at the Southern Fruit Festival 2018 at Suoi Tien Theme Park in HCM City from June 1 to August 30.

 A talk on a new collection of poetry by writer Mai Văn Phấn will be organised in downtown Hanoi tomorrow.

 A Vietnamese representative at the Memory of the World Committee for Asia and Pacific (MOWCAP), has been re-elected as Vice Chairperson of the committee.

 Pianist Anna Grot and violinist Polina Borisova from Russia will present a classical music performance as part of the framework of the annual programme Arts Ambassador in big cities on June 6-8.

 Former Associated Press war photographer Nick Ut (real name Huynh Cong Ut) handed over his two cameras and 52 photos to the Vietnam Press Museum at a ceremony on June 1.

 Two daredevil brothers from Vietnam, known as the Giang brothers, shone in this year’s Britain’s Got Talent finals.

 The Vietnam-France Fine Arts Association “La Seine et Le Mekong” opened the second international fine arts exchange exhibition at the Ho Chi Minh City’s Museum of Fine Arts on June 3.

Artists and art lovers are thought hardly to meet up but a village, only 8km away from the city centre, is making itself a rendezvous for them.

 The Association of Vietnamese Photography Artists (AVPA) in collaboration with the Photographic Society of America (PSA) opened the PSA international photo exhibition in Hanoi on June 2.

 The Giang brothers are through to the final of the popular UK television show, Britain’s Got Talent.

 More than 30 pagodas across the nation are featured in a photo book “Vietnam Pagodas” by French photographer and reporter Nicolas Cornet, which was launched in Ho Chi Minh City on June 1.

 A symphony of the diversified culture of various ethnic groups will be performed on Saturday in the walking street by Hoan Kiem Lake.

 The Vietnamese Nom Preservation Foundation on May 31 presented the annual Balaban Award to Bui Xuan Duc, director of HCM City’s General Science Library.

 The maps and itinerary of an envoy’s journey to China dating from the 18th century have been officially announced as a heritage Memory of the World at the 2018 General Meeting of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific.

 Theatres and entertainment centres in HCM City will offer new shows this weekend on the occasion of International Children’s Day for Children (June 1).

 The list of music stars performing at the 2nd ASEAN-Japan Music Festival 2018 has been announced online with Vietnamese singer, Dong Nhi, among the names who will light up the October event.

 A duo of Japanese magicians, Ai and Yuki, will perform with Vietnamese comedians for the first time in a show for children on the occasion of International Children’s Day.

 Hanoians will have the chance to witness the artistic and religious values of Himalayan thangka art and see artists at work using traditional materials from Nepal.

Vietnamese beauty Huyen My has been named among the top 32 of Miss Grand Slam 2017 as announced by Global Beauties.

 The traditional Vat Cau Nuoc or mud ball wrestling festival is an important celebration in Vietnam. It reminds people of their need for weather benefiting the culture of rice. Water and mud are central to this celebration.