The Sunspiration City Festival will be held from 9am to 11pm on April 6 at Sala City Residential complex, 10 Mai Chí Tho Street in HCM City’s District 2.

 The Hanoi Paragon Hill Resort in Van Hoa commune, Hanoi’s outskirts district of Ba Vi, has been recognised for setting three records by the Vietnam Record Association. 

 Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflote (‘the magic flute’) is one of HBSO’s most popular productions, and it is being revived for a single performance on March 31 at the Saigon Opera House.

 Riyo Mori, Miss Universe 2007, will be a special guest in attendance at the “Son 3” concert, set to take place at the National Convention Centre in Hanoi on March 30-31.

 A museum is calling for the donation of documents and objects linked to the Dien Bien Phu Campaign, which saw Vietnam defeating the French colonialists to put an end to their rule in Indochina in 1954.

 The Da Nang Museum will host the Japan Culture Festival on March 10, introducing a series of traditional cultural activities and performances from Japan to local residents and tourists.

 The Pac Bo festival 2019, the first of its kind, kicked off in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang on March 6, attracting crowds of locals and visitors. 

Painter Nguyen Xuan Luc will hold his first solo exhibition called “Particles” at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum in Hanoi from March 11 to 18, featuring 34 square-sized and rectangular works and 16 round paintings.

The Mong ethnic people in Na Hau commune, Van Yen district, the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai gathered at their sacred forest areas to celebrate the forest god worship festival.

 Vietnamese girl Myra Tran, auditioning for American Idol, has stunned Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan with her rendition of One Night Only.

 The northern province of Bac Ninh recently marked the 10th anniversary of UNESCO’s recognition of quan ho singing as an intangible cultural heritage.

A woman with paralysis of both legs and an arm from Dong Nai province has turned lifeless mollusc shells into unique pieces of art.

 Fine arts works will be displayed at an exhibition slated for mid-September at the Hanoi Museum.  

 Up to 100 types of traditional cakes will be featured at 200 booths at the eighth Southern Traditional Cakes Festival in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho next month, heard a press conference in HCMC today, March 5.

 Discovery Networks Asia Pacific continues to expand its lifestyle footprint in Southeast Asia with the launch of its popular home and lifestyle channel HGTV in Vietnam on March 4.

The Pac Bo festival 2019, the first of its kind, will be organised in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang on March 6.

 Phuong My, one of Vietnam’s premier designers, recently made her debut at New York Fashion Week in the United States by launching her latest fashion collection titled “Sayonara”.

A selection of noteworthy artistic and cultural events that will take place in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City this week.

 The HCMC Ballet, Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will stage a concert on March 9 conducted by its music director Tran Vuong Thach.

 Hotels and resorts in Vietnam are offering a host of promotions on the occasion of International Women’s Day.