Here are some suggestions around Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to dine out:

 VietNamNet Bridge - This month, the original lead guitarist for the chart-topping British rock band, The Police, is set to command the stage for five nights at Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi. 

 The acrobatic Giang brothers announced on Monday that they would cancel their live show due to health problems.

 Mask dancing is a long-standing traditional practice which has been performed throughout many generations of the Tay and Nung ethnic groups in the northern province of Lang Son.

 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.

An artisan in Hanoi has a collection of hundreds of bronze statues along with many other antiques. 

 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.

 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.

 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.

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

 More than ten years ago, Nguyen The Nghi at Thuy Lam commune, Dong Anh district, in Hanoi, began looking for ways to develop Dao Thuc water puppetry.

 Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Binh has co-operated with local forest rangers to release five animals into the wild.

 Events in Hanoi & HCMC on May 27-June 3 

Farmer Tran Huu Hue of An Giang province, owns stamps of great historical value, including two collections namely “Hoang Sa soldiers in the 17th and 18th century” and “Hoang Sa and Truong Sa in ancient maps”.

 Vietnam strives to fight natural disasters

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

 Nearly 100 paintings on the theme of ‘hau dong’ (spirit mediumship) are on display at an exhibition that opened in Hanoi on May 21.

 The third European Book Days officially opened on Nguyen Van Binh Book Street in Ho Chi Minh City on May 13, featuring a myriad of activities attractive to local young people.

 The sixth national festival of the art of Then singing and Tinh gourd lute of the Tay, Nung and Thai ethnic groups officially opened in Ha Giang city, the northernmost province of Ha Giang, on May 13.