As local residents prepare to welcome in the Year of the Dog, members of the city's Female Artists' Club have organised an exhibition entitled Sac Mau Cuoc Song (Colours of Life) at the Blue Space Gallery.

"Vietnamese Tet 2006," a specially cultural-commercial event featuring market days in the countryside will be held at My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi from January 19-25.

Nearly 20 TV reporters and photographers from the United States will make a film and take photographs of traditional culture of Vietnam during the Lunar New Year, the Year of the Dog.

Eighty-two-year-old woman Y Kyih of Ro Ngao ethnic group now owns the most number of gongs in Kon Tum Central Highlands province. As she is now getting older and living alone, it is necessary to give more care and protection to her and to her collection of gongs.

The Ministry of Culture and Information announced Thursday the list of Vietnam’s 10 most significant cultural events this year.

Viet Nam bagged one gold and one silver at the Asian Team Chess Championship in Isfahan, Iran on Dec. 27.

More than 1 million women joined the Viet Nam Women's Union (VWU) in 2005, increasing the union's membership to over 13 million.

Vietnamese film Bride of Silence (Hat Mua Roi Bao Lau) has won the Best New Director award at the 10th International Film Festival in Kerala (IFFK), India

Vietnam wants UNESCO to recognize quan ho, a traditional music form, as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

The opera ‘Drought and Rain,’ Part Two, by choreographer Ea Sola Thuy, a French woman of Vietnamese origin, won the applause of ballet lovers in France when it was performed recently at the Paris Opera House in November.