A Philippine art troupe will come to perform in Hanoi and Thanh Hoa City tonight and tomorrow.

 The Ministry of Planning and Investment has approved the construction of a 490-ha safari park worth VNĐ1 trillion ($44.6 million) inside a protected forest in the resort city of Da Lat in Lam Dong Province. 

French contemporary artist Lionel Descostes recently came back to Vietnam from a solo exhibition in Bangkok where he showcased his handmade embroidery pieces, which are the result of his years’ work in Vietnam.

 Dozens of art troupes in HCM City are presenting special programmes to celebrate Vu Lan, the Buddhist festival held during the seventh lunar month every year, which shows gratitude to motherly love.  

For the first time, the popular play Truong Ba’s Soul, Butcher’s Body will be performed by the Thang Long Puppetry Theatre.

DJ Heyder Eliyev from Azerbaijan will perform at the Fun Beach Festival, a music festival, at East Sea Park in Da Nang City on August 12-14.

Vietnam’s teen band Soul Club founded by music composer Thanh Bui has won gold prize at the 4th Asia Arts Festival in Singapore.

 The statue of Jade Buddha for Universal Peace will be on display at Phu Lien Pagoda in northern Thai Nguyen province this month, on the celebration of the Buddist Vu Lan festival. 

 The cartoon “Oggy and the Cockroaches” (France, 2013, 80 mins) is being screened at L'Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi on August 14, at 4pm.

 Tran Thi Thu Ngan overcame 38 other candidates to be crowned the first Miss Vietnam Global Heritage 2016 in the finale of the pageant at FLC Samson Beach & Golf Resort in the north central province of Thanh Hoa on August 7.

Artist UuDam Nguyen will talk about the process of collaborating with application developers and programers to build the License 2 Draw app as part of his work of the same name at the Innovation Week 2016. 

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This year musicians from Vietnam, China, Taiwan and the US will join the Vietnam Connection Music Festival in Hanoi. They will perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto No. 5” and Antonio Vivaldi's “The Four Seasons”.

 Two Hong Kong actors will arrive in Vietnam this week to act in a TV series produced by HCM City Television’s Film Studio.

Artist To Kim Nhung's exhibition “Urban Chronicles" with 13 paintings on Do paper will open at CHON Gallery, Hanoi on August 5.

 Miss Mekong Delta 2015 Nguyen Thi Le Nam Em has been designated to represent the nation in the Miss Earth 2016 competition slated for October in the Philippines.

"Dislocate" is a solo exhibition by acclaimed Vietnamese artist Bui Cong Khanh, his largest and most ambitious art installation work to date.

 Kien Giang is an ideal place for those who want peaceful holidays. It has beautiful islands and a primitive beauty.

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” — Francis Chan

The exhibition “Reality through the Eyes” by artist Nguyen Dinh Duy Quyen will open on August 5-9 at the Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts, 66 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi.