Two LGBT rights organisations in Viet Nam have sent an open letter to Viet Nam Television complaining about discrimination of LGBT people in an annual comedy that "should not appear on a national channel".

 The Da Nang-born songwriter and songstress Le Cat Trong Ly will introduce her latest songs during two special music nights at L’Espace on March 3 & 4.  

 The festival began with a ritual worshipping the guardian deity at the local communal house. A palanquin procession took offerings from the communal house to the Au Co Temple to pray for peace, good weather, prosperity and happiness.

From the afternoon of the 7th day of the first lunar month (February 22), people flock to Nam Dinh for a unique market which is held only once a year to sell - guess what - bad luck as well as to buy good luck for the year to come.

As part of a series of cultural activities being held across the country, a boat racing competition was held on the Lo River in the northern province of Tuyen Quang, on Monday, or the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. 

Hundreds of local villagers and visitors took part in a traditional ball scrambling festival which commenced in Hoang Mai District, Hanoi, on Tuesday.

 Trial cameras will be installed during the Tran Temple festival this year to track violations, said Pham Thi Oanh, deputy chairwoman of People’s Committee of Nam Dinh City.

 The Acoustic Saturday with Benjamin James, an English vocalist, will be held from 9.30pm until late on February 24 at the Snuffbox Speakeasy bar in District 1, HCM City.

 The second Bulgaria Rose and Friends Festival will be held in Hanoi next month with 1,000 rose trees imported from Bulgaria to be displayed.

 Young artists are joining hands with others to preserve traditional culture. Painter Nguyễn Xuân Lam and a retailing company are one example. They are conducting a project to bring folk painting to fashion.

 Thousands of Buddhist monks, nuns and followers and visitors flocked to the Keo Pagoda festival that opened in Vu Thu district in the Red River Delta province of Thai Binh on February 19 – the fourth day of the lunar New Year.

Vietnam boasts a wide range of intangible cultural heritages recognised by UNESCO. 

 The Muong Culture Space Museum is located in a small limestone valley in Hoa Binh city, about 70km from Hanoi. 

 Many people know the environmental harm of using a traditional earthenware stove with coal, but due to its cheap price, many families still use it for cooking and warming their house, endangering their health.

 Researchers fear the epics of ethnic minority groups in the Central Highlands might get lost into oblivion. So they are spending their time and energy to record epics, and are even hiring people to translate and print the lyrics for preservation.

Thousands of domestic and foreign tourists flocked to Van Mieu (the Temple of Literature) and Quoc Tu Giam (the first university in Vietnam) in Hanoi on February 17.

 Traditional Tet customs of Vietnam

New Zealand, Canadian, Norwegian and Swiss ambassadors to Vietnam have released a video extending best wishes to Vietnamese people on the occasion of Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

Visitors to Hue Imperial Palace have the chance to revisit the olden days and enjoy a real traditional Lunar New Year through "Old atmosphere of Tet traditional cakes" program organized by the Hue Monuments Conservation Center.

 The renowned Vietnamese romantic-comedy Co Ba Sai Gon (The Tailor) will compete in two categories at the Osaka Asia Film Festival being held from March 9-18.