The Ban Flower Festival 2019 – the popular spring flower festival of the north and northwestern regions, kicked off in the northwestern mountainous province of Son La on March 15.

The Hoi An Centre for Management and Conservation of Cultural Heritage on March 15 opened the Hoi An museum of traditional medicine in the ancient city of the same name, the central Quang Nam province, to the public.

The President has issued Decision 356/QD-CTN bestowing the State title of People’s Artisan to 62 performers of folk arts to honour their outstanding contribution to preserving and developing the country’s intangible cultural heritage.

Vietnam was ranked fifth in the list of top 20 Performers of the Year 2018 voted by the beauty pageant website Missosology.org.

The 74th General Assembly and Congress of the International Military Sports Council (CISM) will take place in late April at the Military Zone 7 in Ho Chi Minh City.

The 31st Southeast Asian (SEA) Games are scheduled to begin in Vietnam in November 2021, attracting about 7,000 athletes to compete in 36 sports.

Nearly 2,500 French-style dinner dishes will be prepared at restaurants and French embassies in 150 countries around the world during the Good France 2019 event, according French Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City Vincent Floreani.

Vietnam’s national football team will compete in the 2019 King’s Cup international tournament in Thailand in June at the invitation of the Football Association of Thailand (FAT).

A cultural programme simulating market days in Vietnam’s mountainous regions kicked off in Dien Bien Phu city of the northwestern province of Dien Bien on March 13.

Chinese grandmaster Wang Hao won the men’s group of the 2019 HDBank International Chess Tournament that wrapped up in Ho Chi Minh City on March 13.

A Central Highlands cuisine contest took place in Ko Tam community-based cultural and ecological tourist area in Buon Ma Thuot city, the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, on March 13 as part of the ongoing seventh Buon Ma Thuot coffee festival.

The ASEAN + 3 singing contest 2019, the second of its kind, has been officially launched, open to professional pop singers aged 18-35 from 10 Southeast Asian nations with a view to promoting cultural exchanges in the bloc.

Several festivals were recently held during the ongoing seventh Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak.

A book gathering the experiences, feelings and troubles of 21 expats in Vietnam has been released nationwide.

Nominations for the Devotion Music Awards 2019 hosted by The Thao & Van Hoa (Sports & Culture) newspaper of the Vietnam News Agency were announced at a ceremony in Hanoi on March 12.

A collection of 105 art works by 102 women artists are on display at the HCM City Fine Arts Association.

A ceremony was held at the Hai Ba Trung Temple in Hanoi on March 11 (the sixth day of the second lunar month) to mark the 1,979th anniversary of the Hai Ba Trung Uprising.

V. League 1 defending champions Hanoi FC will play Tampines Rovers of Singapore away in the second match of Group F of the Asian Federation Confederation (AFC) Cup 2019 on March 12.

Gong casting performances are being introduced in the Central province of Dak Lak from March 11-13 as part of the seventh Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival to promote local cultural space of the gongs.

The Vietnam Golf Association and Els Performance Golf Academy - the first international golf academy in VN signed a cooperation agreement towards promoting golf movements among young people.