Miss Global Beauty Queen 2016 Ngoc Duyen has been designated as ambassador for the 2018 Winter Olympics set to take place on January 9-24 at Gangwon, the Republic of Korea (ROK).

 Ngoc Tinh has left Vietnam and is in Dahab, Egypt having joined a diverse group of notable celebrities on the panel of judges at the ‘eco-friendly’ Miss Eco International 2017.

VietNamNet Bridge - To welcome the upcoming Liberation Day (April 30), the Sheraton Saigon Hotel & Tower now offers special food & beverage programs, which will run through April.

 The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has called for a street art contest with the theme ‘I love the ocean, and I’m born to be wild’ in An Binh iIslet Commune during ‘Ocean week’ from June 1-8.

Here are some of the best photos from a cake festival running April 5-9 in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.

 Hang Dau Water Tower, a French colonial structure in Hanoi’s Quan Thanh Street, is being illuminated in orange for the third consecutive year from April 6-27, to mark the festive days for both Vietnam and the Netherlands this month.

 Palanquin procession and offerings rituals were held on April 4 with the participation of five communes in the northern province of Phu Tho to honour the Hung Kings, the legendary founders of the Vietnamese nation.

 Dao Xa village in Ung Hoa district, 50 km from the center of Hanoi, is famous for making musical instruments.

 The Vietnam Archaeology Institute and the Tuyen Quang Museum have discovered a metal-age tomb complex in Na Tham cave in Na Hang district’s Thanh Tuong commune, northern mountainous Tuyen Quang province.

 An ongoing exhibition entitled “Treasures of Vietnam Archaeology” at the State Museum of Archaeology in Germany’s Sachsen state has been attracting a large number of visitors.

 Tomorrow, the Friends of Vietnam Heritage (FVH) will host a cultural lecture on the theme ”Female Heroes in Viet Nam”.

Phu Tho on March 28 opened an exhibition to introduce documents and items related to the UNESCO-recognised intangible cultural heritage of Phu Tho’s Xoan singing, as part of activities to celebrate the Hung Kings’ Temple Festival 2017.

  A museum is a place to preserve and uphold a country’s cultural and historical heritage. In recent years, the Vietnamese government has paid closer attention to using museums to improve people’s spiritual and cultural life and attract more visitors.

 The village banyan tree, water well, and communal house yard have long been icons of the Vietnamese village.

 The second National “Don Ca Tai Tu” Festival will be held in the southern province of Binh Duong from April 8-12.

 The 2017 ASEAN Film Festival was launched at the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 27 in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of ASEAN.

Holi is a traditional festival celebrated by Hindus in India and several other countries. Those who joined the event in Hanoi were treated to an array of Indian dishes and had the chance to throw colourful powder at each other.

After two weeks of fashion, glamour and glitz, Ao Dai Festival 2017 closed out in style on March 17 in HCM City with many of the country’s most prominent names in the fashion world in attendance.

 The Hanoi Museum received a model of the Mong Phu village gate crafted by Japanese architect Ejima Akiyoshi at a ceremony on March 16.

 It has been unveiled that Vietnamese designer Phuong My has been selected to join the judging panel for the 2017 AirAsia Runway Ready Designer Search.