Vietnam has been making efforts to mobilise international and domestic sources in order to support national energy development and achieve a sustainable energy system with low emissions, experts have said.

Miss Vietnam 2016 Do My Linh has been selected to represent Vietnam at the upcoming Miss World 2017 while Le Thi Ha Thu has been designated to represent Vietnam at the Miss Earth 2017.

The Ha Thanh Xam singing troupe, particularly its member – musician and artist Nguyen Quang Long, has actively created new and effective ways to bring this traditional arts form closer to their audiences.

 The 20th Vietnam Film Festival will take place in the central coastal city of Da Nang from November 24-28 with the participation of nearly 850 delegates.

 An outdoor exhibition featuring 50 photos of old Hanoi will be held on pedestrian streets near Hoan Kiem Lake from August 11 to 13.

 Vietnam shines at int'l, regional Olympiads 2017

 Pianist Jean-Louis Haguenauer will treat local music fans to a French classical concert on August 19. 

A section of My Khe Beach in Da Nang, considered one of the most beautiful stretches of coastline in Viet Nam, has been heavily polluted by untreated waste water illegally discharged from a construction project.

 For the first time ever, an overnight electronic dance Halloween music festival titled ‘Highway to Hell’ will transpire this October 28-29 at Tantraland Dong Mo, reports the Dantri online newspaper.

 Director Phan Gia Nhat Linh’s film ‘The Girl From Yesterday’ has earned VND50 billion after just ten days since its release.

Featuring eighteen politically-ambitious computer games from the past twelve years, the touring interactive exhibition Games and Realities examines how computer games unfold their political potential. 

 Some 21 Vietnamese performers and musicians took the stage at the International Folklore Festival in Bistrita, north Romania, from July 27-31 with traditional songs and dances.

 Twenty-one students from the Hanoi-based London College for Design and Fashion (LCDF) will display their graduate collections here between August 3-5.

 Nguyen Thi Hai Yen from the An Giang Province was crowned Miss Southern Vietnam 2017 out of the 27 contestants at the final round of the pageant on July 22nd, in Can Tho City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The photo exhibition entitled “Prejudice against Professions” will open at MAM Art, 36 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi from July 19 to 23. 

 Honeywell (NYSE: HON) and long-term partner, the US Space & Rocket Center (USSRC), welcomed more than 200 middle school teachers from 33 countries and 45 US states and territories to Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA).

 Due to the fast development of the printing industry, the tradition of painting advertisement posters by hand has faded. Having painted these posters for more than 30 years, Hoai Minh Phuong is one of very few painters producing them by hand.

 Hai Phong still wants to continue holding Do Son Buffalo Fighting Festival which was temporarily halted after a local man was gored to death by his fighting buffalo.

 Banh Chung (Vietnamese square glutinous rice cake) is chosen as one of the 12 best rice dishes from all over the world by the Russian geographic magazine, Vokrug Sveta.

 Vietnamese performers will attend a folk culture festival across Europe for the first time from July 5 to August 15.