Four actors and actresses, Shiddharth Shukla, Avinask Mukherjee, Aasiya Kazi and Roop Durgapal, starring in Balika Vadhu (Child Bride), have visited Vietnam and met with fans.

 Beating other talented contestants, Ho Van Cuong from the southern Tien Giang Province has won the first season of Vietnam Idol Kids 2016.

 Vietnam’s most in-vogue songstress, Ho Ngoc Ha, will appear on July 29 before an audience in Hanoi with a series of ballads.

 About 1,000 artists from several Southeast Asian countries will perform at a festival in Dong Ha City in the central Quang Tri Province from July 18 to 25.

 Anyone who is interested in seeing or acquiring works by some of Vietnam's most prominent artists, is invited to visit the Affordable Art 2016 “7+”, which is taking place at the Dong Phong Art Gallery in Hanoi.

 The Rotten Grapes – the one and only English-speaking Comedy club in Hanoi will present its biggest comedy show ever at L’Espace on Saturday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The preliminary round of Miss Vietnam 2016 for contestants from northern provinces is taking place in Hanoi (July 9-16), with the participation of hundreds of young women.

 Foreign tourists will be charmed by an unique circus show entitled Lang Toi (My Village) at Hanoi Opera House on July 16.

 Two winners of Vietnam’s Next Top Model 2014 and 2015, Nguyen Oanh and Huong Ly have arrived in Singapore for career development.

 The “Feel Japan in Vietnam” festival will feature popular symbols of Japanese culture, Hello Kitty, Geisha and Ninja, in HCM City this week.

 Award-winning mixologist, Pham Tien Tiep, will share his great passion and skills on mixing cocktails and other drinks at a cocktail master class, which will be held every Saturday at La Plume, an elegant bar and bistro in Hanoi.

 More than 1,000 crown hopefuls have registered for Miss Viet Nam 2016 – the biennial national beauty contest, creating a lot of work for the judging panel.

 Familiar images of the countryside of Vietnam and of people’s daily activities appear on truc chi (bamboo pulp paper) when it is illuminated by led lights.

 Almost every Co Tu village has a guol house in the middle. In the Co Tu language, ‘guol’ means communal. So, the guol house is the house that people in a village share for community activities.

 The Vietnam Book of Records, VietKings, hasrecognised a marble milestone of Truong Sa Dong Island on the mainland as thebiggest of its kind in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Built over 100 years ago and one of several French-style villas in Saigon today,  house number 237 on No Trang Long Street in HCM City’s Binh Thanh District is being dismantled for the construction of a new villa.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The first runner-up of Miss Universe Vietnam 2015 Le Hang will be Vietnam’s representative at this year's Miss Universe pageant.

Artists from South Korea have given a village in central Quang Nam Province a new look with colourful murals.

 The French School of the Far East has just released two volumes of a comic book adapted from the poem Luc Van Tien by Vietnamese renowned poet Nguyen Dinh Chieu.

 Sai Gon based artist Khoa Lê will introduce her solo exhibition Happy Never After from June 24 to July 17 in HCM City.