• Biggest Vietnam-US cultural project underway
  Biggest Vietnam-US cultural project underway
  

  The Vietnam National Academy of Music (VNAM) and the Southwest Symphony Orchestra is working on a joint cultural project considered the biggest ever in the Vietnam-US relations.
  13/03
• Film festival celebrates 40th Francophone Day
  Film festival celebrates 40th Francophone Day
  

  A Francophone Film Festival kicked off in Hanoi on March 12 as part of a national celebration of International Francophone Day in Vietnam.
  13/03
• Orchestra celebrates 2010 German Year in Vietnam
  Orchestra celebrates 2010 German Year in Vietnam
  

  Guest conductor Gudni Emilsson and pianist Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy will be performing works by Schubert, Mozart and Haydn with the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) on March 14 to mark 2010 German Year in Vietnam.
  13/03
• Preserving Xam music
  Preserving Xam music
  

  

  Xam music, usually performed by groups of blind people wandering along the streets of Hanoi, is being revived, performed and introduced to the public by the Vietnam Music Art Development Centre (VMADC).
  13/03
• British Council helps improve festival management in Vietnam
  British Council helps improve festival management in Vietnam
  

  The British Council will coordinate with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vietnam to organise a training course on festival management in Hanoi from March 17-20.
  13/03

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• Vietnam Culture Day held in Saint Petersburg
  Vietnam Culture Day held in Saint Petersburg
  

  Nearly 1,000 Russian people and Vietnamese students and people working in Russia, attended a Vietnam Culture Day in Saint Petersburg on November 8.
  10/11
• Mexico hopes to boost cultural cooperation with Vietnam
  Mexico hopes to boost cultural cooperation with Vietnam
  

  A delegation of the Ho Chi Minh Museum led by its director Chu Duc Tinh paid an official visit to the city of Mexico from November 1-7.
  09/11
• Gia Lai ready for int’l Gong festival
  Gia Lai ready for int’l Gong festival
  

  

  The international Gong festival from November 12-15 will be a good chance for the central highland province to promote its tourism industry.
  09/11
• Vietnam’s Miss Sport to attend 2009 Miss International
  Vietnam’s Miss Sport to attend 2009 Miss International
  

  

  Vietnam’s Miss Sport 2007 Tran Thi Quynh, arrived in Sichuan, China on November 8 to compete in Miss International 2009 from November 13-28.
  09/11
• Iranian painting exhibition opens to welcome AIG-3
  Iranian painting exhibition opens to welcome AIG-3
  

  

  Four big names of the Iranian art opened a joint painting exhibition in Hanoi on November 8 to welcome the success of the Asian Indoor Games-3, which closed later in the evening after nine days’ competition.
  09/11