Looking for something to do to spice up your visit to a café? Why not try painting your own adorable statues. Colouring cafes are popping up all over HCM City, and young people, friends and families are loving discovering their inner artist.

During the two-hour show, the audience will witness an intense theatrical combat between Team Disney Classic and Team Disney Channel – High School Musical confronts The Little Mermaid, Hannah Montana battles Mulan, The Lion King meets Phineas & Ferb.

Visiting the hamlet, which is nestled against the mountains and is blessed with a smooth stream creating a picturesque landscape, tourists can immerse themselves in the simple life of this ethnic community consisting of 160 households.

The 9th Japan Vietnam Festival will take place from March 9-10 at September 23 Park in HCM City’s District 1.

An annual Áo dài festival will take place in HCM City from March 7 to 17 with a wide range of cultural activities, the event’s organisers announced at a press conference held in HCM City on March 1. 

HCM City Television will broadcast a new music/talk show about HCM City and its people.

A film about the war against the French invaders in Hà Nội in 1946 has become a phenomenon attracting young audiences. Funded by the State, the film has rapidly gathered mass interest thanks to widely-spread information on social networks. Filmmakers are happy and hope this can elevate domestic movies to new heights.

A slew of new entrants is added onto the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Việt Nam in fields such as folk performing arts, traditional festivals, oral literature, scripts, and traditional handicrafts.

 The mountainous tourist city of Đà Lạt is captured in a collection of aerial photos by veteran photographer and journalist Giản Thanh Sơn. 

In this session, Singaporean writer and researcher Zhuang will share examples of how documenting was used by the elites during the colonial period, how it was understood by the salon photographers, and how it has been deployed during decolonisation and the making of the nation.

Entitled Lịch Sử Opera Ý (History of Italian Opera), the book has been penned by Italian Musical Prof Gianni Kriscak, currently a lecturer of theatrical music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austris.

Hairstylist Nguyễn Kim Tuyến, has a talent that goes beyond cutting hair. He creates amazing works of art from the hair he cuts! People love his work because they're so unique and special, and of course, made from hair!

According to the municipal Tourism Department, the number of arrivals to the capital city is experiencing an upward trend. Total revenue from tourism activities is estimated at VNĐ8.06 trillion (US$327 million), a surge of 9 per cent year on year.

Of Scented Reverie is inspired by the woodblock printing technique, combined with the use of hands to mix and layer varying intensities of colours.

Last year, Việt Nam box office reached US$150 million, or around 90 per cent of pre-pandemic levels, from a total of 1,100 screens. Not bad for a market that in 2010 only had 90 screens and annual revenue of less than $15 million.

Phạm Pháo village in Hải Hậu District, Nam Định Province, really does echo with the sounds of brass. This is where skilled artisans like Nguyễn Văn Cường uphold a century-old tradition of restoring and creating brass instruments. As a renowned craftsman, Cường dedicates himself to preserving the art, passing down his expertise through generations while nurturing a passion for timeless music.

In its fourth year, awards was presented to 11 female figures from various countries, including the US, the Arab world, the UK, Monaco, and Puerto Rico.

In Túy Loan, the craft of producing rice paper is rooted in the over 500-year history of exploration and settlement by the forefathers and passed down through many generations.

Hải Dương Province's authorities have announced the Prime Minister's decision to recognise a set of three Buddha statues at Côn Sơn Pagoda as a national treasure.

Artisan Nguyễn Thị Tuyến, who has been preparing sticky rice for more than 45 years, said no one knows exactly when the craft came into being, but since she was six, her grandmother told her that village cooks often used sticky rice grown right on the village fields to offer to God and ancestors at Tết or village festivals.