The Badminton World Federation has delayed all tournaments scheduled in May to July due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) has announced the cancellation of a friendly match between the national teams of Vietnam and Kyrgyzstan in Binh Duong Province on March 26.

The annual 2020 Golden Kite awards will be postponed until April due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the organiser, the Vietnam Cinematography Association, has announced.

The highly anticipated Hue Festival 2020 will be postponed due to the spread of fatal novel coronavirus (Covid-19), according to Thua Thien Hue Province’s People’s Committee.

While many upcoming festivals have been postponed or cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak, festive cheer has still been abundant in Vietnam in recent days.

The Vietnam Writers Association has decided to postpone the annual Poetry Day, which is normally held on the 15th day of the first lunar month, due to the continued spread of coronavirus.

 President Trump's plans for a Veterans Day military parade through the streets of Washington DC have been delayed until at least 2019.

 The organisation that decides the Nobel Prize for Literature has said it will not announce an award this year, after it was engulfed in a scandal over sexual assault allegations.