An exhibition of women’s jewelry from ancient times opened on Oct. 12 at the Southern Women’s Museum in Ho Chi Minh City.

French conductor Olivier Grangean and violinist Maryvonne Le Dizeswill shared the stage with the HCM City Symphony Orchestra in a concert performance on Oct. 9 as part of a cultural cooperation program between France and Viet Nam.

The Vietnamese women’s football team will have two friendlies against China on November 10 and 12, during their training tour in the country, reported the Sports Daily.

The Thai Tuan Textile Company is busy designing and making 600 ao dai for the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Ha Noi.

What could be a better way to celebrate Christmas and New Year than sending your friends, clients or colleagues one of the special cards made by disadvantage children of the Saigon Children’s Charity?

The 40-piece National Orchestra of the Republic of Korea (RoK) will perform at the Hanoi Opera House on November 3 in a concert with Vietnamese pop singer, Thanh Lam, to salute the upcoming APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting.

Mrs. Jan Johnston and the staff of the Canadian consulate general in HCMC sat down together over the weekend discuss how to set up an impressive booth for selling goods of the country at the annual charity bazaar early next month.

Viet Nam’s fashion models have gained permission from the Ministry of Home Affairs to form a national association.

Artist of Merit Tran Tuyet Minh held her solo piano performance in Hanoi on October 18 as one of the activities to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Hanoi Conservatory of Music.

Southeast Asian Games champion Nguyen Hoang Ngan won Viet Nam's first-ever silver medal in the World Karate Championships, which ended on Oct. 15 in Finland.

In October 3th 2006, after a period of implementing the quality management process on the basis of the international standards, the Women's House of Culture of Ho Chi Minh City was officially acknowledged to achieve the Quality Management System ISO 9001:2000 by the United Kingdom's BVQI Organization.

Isabelle de Valvert of France is performing her unique brand of jazz at Le Club in the Sofitel Metropole Ha Noi every evening from Oct. 3 to the end of November.

As reported the Vietnamese pop singer Doan Trang has attended the Hattori Memorial Music Festival 2006 in Osaka Japan. The festival closed on October 4.

After more than one year, Radio the Voice of Vietnam and Quang Nam People’s Committee jointly motivated and launched a competition of designing the Vietnamese Heroic Mothers’ Statue – taking archetype of Vietnamese heroic mother Nguyen Thi Thu.

The International Football Federation (FIFA) will strongly invest in Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar to help Southeast Asian female football to keep up with the regional level of football, according to Michell Chai, a media and communications official of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

Thousands of people turned up in droves to join the 7th Terry Fox Run at the Thien Quang Lake in Ha Noi on Sep. 24 to raise money for cancer research in Viet Nam.

Thuy Dung, the women’s tennis champion at the recent National Sport Games, has agreed to represent Vietnam at the 15th Asian Games (Asiad) in Qatar later this year.

The Bac Ninh provincial Department of Culture and Information, in cooperation with the Institute of Culture and Information has basically completed a file to submit to the UNESCO for recognition of Bac Ninh folk song as an oral and intangible masterpiece of humanity.

Dinh Thi Tham Poong is known for the fusion of folk style and modernity in her paintings. Poong is exhibiting her latest works at the Art Vietnam Gallery – 30 Hang Than street, Hanoi. Nature is, once again, the main theme in her paintings.

The Vietnamese women’s sepak takraw team won a silver medal at the King's Cup World Sepak Takraw Championships which concluded in Thailand on September 8.

Truong Thanh Hang continued to beat her teammate in the national team to win a gold medal in women’s 1,500 metres, breaking her previous national record at national track and field contest at the National Sports Games in Da Nang on September 12, according to Ho Chi Minh City Sports newspaper.

Written and directed by veteran Dang Nhat Minh, the film, Dung Dot, Ben Trong Da Co Lua (Don’t Burn, It Already Has Fire Inside) is based on the diary of fallen doctor Dang Thuy Tram.

At the musical exchange performance within the scope of the recent culture week of Viet Nam organized in the end of August in Phnom Penh, Cambodian singer Sun So Vanari made Viet Nam’s artists so surprise by Vietnamese songs that she sang fluently in Vietnamese language. Nobody believed that she is a Cambodian singer because of her standard Vietnamese pronunciation.

The freshly-crowned Miss Vietnam Mai Phuong Thuy on September 4 left for Poland to participate in the world beauty pageant.

The host country Viet Nam’s athletes won the Asian Bodybuilding and Fitness Championships for the first time with five golds, two silvers, and one bronze.

Nguyen Thi Thu Cuc from Can Tho has become the first athlete to win a gold medal at the national track and field contest at the National Sports Games, according to the Sports Daily.

“Forever Remaining Relics” is the name of the exhibition that will display the relics of the martyr Dang Thuy Tram. 50 items and images will be displayed.

Recently, objects collected by ethnologist Georges Condominas from ethnic minority people in the Central Highlands have been exhibited in one of the most prestigious museums in the world, the Quai Branly in France.

Internationally-renowned American singer and pianist Vanessa Feltner will play a blend of pop, blues and jazz melodies at her September 2 performance in HCM City.

Dang Thuy Tram’s diary, the story of a youthful Vietnamese wartime heroine, will be published in Rumanian to further spread the famous Vietnamese story.

Thirty four young women began competing in the national final of Miss Vietnam 2006 at the VinPearl resort near Nha Trang on Aug. 16.

Vietnam has won two bronzes in the women's freestyle wrestling, ranking 12th at the Asian Junior Wrestling Championships in Bangkok, Thailand.

Vietnamese singer Ho Quynh Huong will attend the Asian Pop Music Festival due to open in the Republic of Korea on September 22.

Young talented pianist Van Anh has recently shared the first prize at Irene – Hope Gibson 2 Pianos Award with David Shi.

More than 3,000 beauties across the country have registered to take part in the Miss Vietnam 2006 be held in Vin Pearl Spa & Resort in the central coastal city of Nha Trang from August 15-26.

Pop star My Linh and two other Vietnamese musicians will perform at the Asian Divas’ night in Japan next month.

Vietnam's women football squad is preparing for the 2008 World Olympic Games qualification rounds after returning home from the Asian Cup finals in Australia.

Twenty children’s paintings were awarded at the national art contest for children with the theme “Benevolence” by the Fine Arts and Cinematography Agency under the Ministry of Culture and Information on July 28 in Hanoi.

China's Sichuan took the International Women's Volleyball Tournament VTV Cup after beating Vietnam 3-2 in the exciting final on July 30.

Her father died a month ago. Her mother has fallen ill for more than a week. The plan to organise a performance to announce her first classical guitar album was postponed.

On July 5 and 6, 2006, the Nationwide Television Film Festival called “Crime and Social Evil Prevention” took place. This event was jointly organized by the Ministry of Public Security and the Vietnam Women’s Union reflecting the 4 years cooperation of the two institutions in accordance to the jointly signed Resolution # 01/NQ-TW on May 8, 2002.

Pop singer Vuong Dung has been chosen to represent Vietnam at the International Pop Festival in Beijing, China.

Viet Nam Television cooperated with the Viet Nam Feature Film Studio to produce the reality show of “21st Century’s Women” with the copyright of Zeal Television. The show aims to honor the spiritual and physical beauty of Vietnamese women.

A Vietnamese woman has in the past 19 years worked hard to popularize the Vietnamese traditional dress ao dai in Japan, better known as the “Kingdom of Kimono.

Hanoi's disabled athletes join in a skills training session at Hang Day Stadium every morning before taking on a two-hour fitness exercise at Khuc Hao sports centre.

Rosemary Nguyen is one of a few foreign translators who are capable of and interested in translating Vietnamese short stories and novels to English.

The “Vietnam Book Prizes” organising committee has decided to confer special prizes on two books, “Dang Thuy Tram diary” and “Forever the age of 20”, announced Phan Khac Hai, Chairman of the Vietnam Books Publishing, Printing and Issuing Association at the press briefing on May 24.

Vietnamese boxers are gearing up for the international Asian Cadet Boxing Championships and Women’s Open Tournament scheduled for June 10-18 in the capital.

The “Honoring Vietnamese Women’s Beauty” photo contest, organized by Unilever Viet Nam (brand of Dove) and the Viet Nam Association of Photographic Artists, received 17,244 photos from 400 candidates in 52 provinces and cities in the country. Nguyen Thi Sin won the first prize with her photo “The Moment of Glory”

Designer Minh Hanh received a letter from the Minister of French Culture and Information Ministry, informing her with the good news that she has been inaugurated with the title Art and Literature Knight by French State

VWU President Ha Thi Khiet on behalf of VWU Presidium presented 30 million dongs to the Vietnam women’s football team after they won the Southeast Asian Women’s Open Championship.

The 12 contestants entering the final round of the TV singing contest, Sao Mai Diem Hen (Morning Star - Rendezvous) 2006, have been announced.

Vietnamese athletes won three gold, one silver and two bronze medals at the Southeast Asian junior track and field contest in Bangkok, Thailand.

On the occasion of Indochina University’s 100 years anniversary, Ms. Alix Tardieu, niece of artist Victor Tardieu, founder of the Indochina arts college, visited Vietnam.

The diary of a fallen Vietnamese doctor-soldier is expected to be published in the Republic of Korea (RoK) in July, Korean newspapers reported.

Vietnamese bowler Huynh Ngoc Diem Thuy took home a silver medal at the 39th Singapore International Bowling Open on Sunday.

After the troublesome journey of the “Bride of Silence”, film director Doan Minh Phuong has had aspirations for the new film “Nguyen Tieu” (Full Moon).

60 modern dresses, made of silk, oganza and velvet with main colors of yellow, blue and pink, inspired by the Hue Imperial Palace architecture’s carving flowery patterns, will be presented in Hue Festival on Ngoc Dich Lake, Dai Noi (Imperial city).

Nguyen Thi Nhung is one of the few female antique collectors in Vietnam. She owns 10,000 antiques and over 10,000 ancient worship paintings.

The Viet Nam National Textile and Garment Corp, The Fashion Design Institute (Fadin) and Mot Viet Nam magazine have just launched a fashion design contest - VietNam Collection Grandprix 2006 - with the theme “The Balance”. It is the annual contest which is intended for young people at home and abroad.

Saeko Ando has been in Vietnam for 11 years. Every year she goes home to Nagoya (Japan) and then returns to Hanoi. She and Vietnamese painters work hard with the boxes of egg shell, paint, golden and silver litmus leaves... Now, the biggest path for her is to pursuing Vietnamese lacquer art.

Viet Nam's women's national squad was ranked 35th among 129 teams in the World Football Governing Body (FIFA)'s ranking of the second quarter.

A Vietnamese track athlete Monday raced to a bronze medal in the women’s 200m event at the 2006 Asian Grand Prix circuit in Bangalore, India, Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper reported Wednesday.

On April 5, 2005, Star Daily, one of South Africa’s great newspapers featured a 1-page article by Marilyn August from Hanoi as well as some extracts from the famous diary of martyr Dang Thuy Tram

More than 100 photos selected from thousands on the late President Ho Chi Minh by a French photographer are being displayed at an exhibition opened in Hanoi on May 17.

French painter Dominique De Miscault has lived and worked in Vietnam for 14 years. She implemented tens of exhibitions about Vietnam and its people and participated in solidarity and friendship activities to help Vietnamese people when she was a member of the Vietnam-France Friendship Association.

Vietnamese fencer Nguyen Thi Nhu Hoa took home one gold medal in the women's epee event at the Southeast Asian Fencing Championships in the Philippines on May 18.

Being nearly 40 years old, Tran Nguyen Thai has many achievements. She is especially well known for her 5 medals at the Para Games in 2001 and 2005. To achieve these victories as a disabled female, Tran Nguyen is a bright example for all of us to follow.

Recently, Vietnamese models Bao Hoa and Vu Thu Phuong were invited to work with US modeling companies. They become the nation’s first models to work abroad.

After much consideration and thought, director Doan Hoang Giang has made a play about Dang Thuy Tram, Nguyen Van Thac and other martyrs.

In 1959, Marta Rojas, a newly graduated journalist, started work at a Revolution Newspaper of the Cuba Communist Party. As the Vietnam War fiercely escalated in 1964, Marta came to see the representative of the South Vietnam National Liberation Front in Havana and proposed her visit to Vietnam.

The Vietnamese women’s volleyball team will compete at the Queen Cup in Bangkok, Thailand, from June 6-12.

Vietnamese weightlifters won two silver and a bronze medal at the world contest for the disabled in the Republic of Korea, reported the Sports Daily.

The women’s chess team with Hoang Thi Bao Tram, Le Thanh Tu, Nguyen Thi Thanh An and Pham Bich Ngoc, are seeded 24 at the forthcoming world championship.

The 2006 Toyota Women's Open Tennis Tournament will open in Ho Chi Minh City on May 13 with the participation of 90 tennis players from 18 countries and territories, the organising board announced at a press briefing on May 9.