A painting competition for Hungarian children has been launched as part of activities held by the Vietnam Women Association in Hungary to further promote Vietnam and the Vietnamese community for Hungarian people who have little information about the country’s current development.

American singer Denise Mininfield's second tour of Vietnam will take her to the country's four largest cities beginning tomorrow, according to the US Consulate in HCM City.

To establish a hotline for marriages between Vietnamese women and Korean men was agreed to submit to Governments of Vietnam and Republic of Korea by Mrs. Kang Kim Sil, Korean Ambassador of Gender, Korean Former Minister of Justice and Mrs. Ha Thi Khiet, Member of the Party’s Central Committee, President of the Vietnam Women's Union and Chairwoman of the Vietnam National Committee for the Advancement of Women at a working session on Jan 8th, 2007 in the working visit of Mrs. Kang in Vietnam.

Nineteen-year-old Vietnamese Australian pianist Nguyen Van Anh will perform at the Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music this Friday.

President Tran Duc Luong will deliver the welcome address at the traditional Tet festival with overseas Vietnamese dubbed “Spring in the Motherland” at the National Convention Centre on February 9. The festival is expected to attract the participation of around 1,000 overseas Vietnamese.

What is special in a welcome-home gathering for Professor and Pharmacist Luu Trong Ho is the appearance of his youngest daughter, 27-year-old Luu Trong Xuan An, who was born in Canada and has been assistant for four years to a high-ranking politician in the Canadian Parliament.

Writer Thuan, who is currently living in France and last year won the Vietnamese Writers' Association Award, sat down for an interview about her latest novel, T. Missing.

VietHope, a non-profit organization founded by Vietnamese Americans is set to offer 150 scholarships worth a total US$22,500 to poor university freshmen in Vietnam by 2007.

Vietnamese pianist Nguyen Thuy Quynh gave a special performance at the Baisley Powell Elebash concert-hall in New York on the evening of December 12.

Louisa Huynh, MC of the “Talk Vietnam” show on Vietnam Television’s channel 4 (VTV4), will be the MC for the performance at the most important banquet of the 2006 APEC Week, the Gala Dinner.