Arts & Entertainment

The first Belgian Week 2016 in Vietnam will be held in Hanoi and HCM City from November 12-19 with various cultural activities.

The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCMCYU) Central Committee in collaboration with the Communist Youth League of China (CYLC) Central Committee held a ceremony to close the third Vietnam-China Youth Festival in Hanoi on November 9 afternoon.

The Vietnamese film Jackpot directed by Dustin Nguyen won the audience award for length feature film at the fourth Hanoi International Film (HANIFF) that ended in Hanoi on November 5.

An exhibition titled “A Window on Vietnam” is being opened in Ho Chi Minh City and has run from Novomber 4 to 19.

An exhibition on rivers across Vietnam opened at the Nha Trang University in the central province of Khanh Hoa on November 3.

The 2nd Vietnam-Japan Culture and Trade Exchange Programme will be held at Luu Huu Phuoc park in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho from November 11-13, the organising board announced at a press conference in the city on November 1.

The exhibition, themed "Vietnam’s external economic achievements and investment environment", kicked off on November 2 in Ho Chi Minh City as part of the Vietnam Summit 2016.

Filmmakers and producers gathered on November 2 to discuss the potential for a regional cinema industry and for cooperation between countries in the ASEAN bloc during the Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF) from November 1-5.

The fourth Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF), organised by the Cinema Department and Hanoi’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, kicked off on November 1 in Hanoi.

One of the two ASEAN futsal championships in 2017 will be organised in HCM City in November next year, according to the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF).

Trinh Nhat Minh, a nine-year-old boy from Hanoi, won the fourth season of the Voice Kid Vietnam after beating three other finalists on the finale on October 29 night.

The “Seoul Days in Hanoi 2016” programme, co-chaired by the Seoul city government and Hanoi People`s Committee to mark 20th anniversary of bilateral ties between Vietnam’s capital city and Seoul of the Republic of Korea (RoK), opened at Ly Thai To Garden on October 28.

The Vietnam Shooting Federation held a press conference in Hanoi on October 27 to announce the Southeast Asian Shooting Association Championship (SEASA) 2016.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Laos held a ceremony in Vientiane on October 27 to hand over nearly 100 photos and maps featuring Ho Chi Minh - West Truong Son Trail to the Lao People’s Army History Museum.

A bamboo building inside Muong Museum, 80 kilometres west of Hanoi, has just been awarded a silver prize in the Cultural Architecture category by the organisers of the American Architecture Prize 2016.

Vietnamese director Dang Nhat Minh is one of three global filmmakers to be honoured at the 36th Amiens International Film Festival (FIFAM), taking place from November 11 to 19 in Amiens, France.

With the win 1-0 to hosts Bahrain, Vietnam`s U19 team reached the semifinals of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) football competition for the first time, qualifying for the FIFA U-20 World Cup, which will take place in the Republic of Korea in 2017, for the first time.

An array of cultural activities will be held in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to mark the 45th Anniversary of bilateral relations between Vietnam and Denmark, the Embassy of Denmark in Hanoi announced at the recent press conference.

Tran Tuan An, a 24-year-old Vietnamese guitarist, won second prize at the International Guitar Competition & Festival Berlin, held in the German capital on October 15-16.

Vietnam’s U19 football team tied 0-0 and shared one point with top-placed Iraq at the final qualifying match in Bahrain on October 20, advancing to Asian quarter-finals for the first time.