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.

The 23rd SEA Games closed after nine days of competition in Metro Manila, the Philippines, on December 5 with a simple and pleasant ceremony at the Quirino Grand Stand

A winner by Van Thi Thanh from a spot kick earned Vietnamese women’s football the third consecutive SEA Games gold medal. It was a sweet result for brave efforts of the Vietnamese players.

The Vietnamese women's football team won 1-0 in the final match against Myanmar at the 23rd Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in the Philippines on December 3.

“Viet Nam is one of the most beautiful and attractive landscapes of the world for tourism, especially in the Northern mountainous areas”

Awards were given to winners of the photo contest on education on November 15 at Vietnam Centre for Culture and Art Exhibition, Hanoi.

In her youth she was an aspiring writer, but life’s path has led her to Ca tru. She now performs and works to revive and preserve the musical performance.

Vietnamese artists performed a “wonderful show” to audience attending the Vietnamese culture night in Pretoria, South Africa, on the night of November 11.

Pole-vaulter Lê Thị Phương broke her own record in the women's pole-vault on the opening day of the National Athletics Championships at Hà Nội's Mỹ Đình Stadium on october 18.

Trương Thanh Hằng set a new Southeast Asian record in the women's l,500m at the National Athlet- ics Championships in Mỹ Đình National Stadium, Hà Nội.

Vietnamese Australian pianist Nguyen Van Anh is making her first visit to Vietnam, her parents’ homeland and the site of her upcoming Ho Chi Minh City performance.

Female cyclist Hoang Thi Thanh Tan of Agifish An Giang team won gold medal in the long-road category at the on-going 2005 National Cycling Championships, clocking in two hours, 27 minutes and 54 seconds.

The Vietnamese national female football team today set off for two-weeks of training in Taiwan to prepare for SEA Games 23, reported coach Mai Duc Chung

A unique and impressive exhibition of paintings by Thuraya Al Aqsami, a Kuwaiti woman painter and writer, opened in Hanoi on November 4