The Central Propaganda Department announced that the ceremony to honour 88 outstanding valedictorians in Hanoi will be held on October 8 at the Temple of Literature.

 Tran Tieu Vy, H’Hen Nie and Minh Tu will represent Vietnam at Miss World, Miss Universe and Miss Supranational pageants during 2018.

 Vietnamese movie Nguoi Vo Ba (The Third Wife) has received the RTVE - Another Look Award at the 66th San Sebastian International Film Festival.

 Police of Quynh Nhai district in the northern mountainous province of Son La on September 28 arrested four men when they were illegally transporting about 54,000 methamphetamine pills to neighbouring Lao Cai province.

 In a small house on Hang Than Street, Hanoi, paper masks are produced under the skilful hands of an old couple on every Mid-Autumn Festival. 

 About 95 musicians of the London Symphony Orchestra will perform in the Vietnam Airlines Classic-Hanoi Concert 2018, scheduled to take place on the pedestrian streets around Hoan Kiem lake on October 6.

 Oktoberfest Vietnam 2018, HCM City’s most exciting annual German beer and food festival, returns for its 14th year at Windsor Plaza Hotel. 

 Japanese culture will be in the spotlight at the Japan Day - Fullmoon Festival, which will take place on September 23 in the Manor Central Park urban area in Hanoi’s Hoang Mai district.

 About 500 pupils are having to travel by boats through dangerous locations as early flooding damaged embankments and roads in the southern Dong Thap Province.

 Teams from China, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam will compete in the International Kylin and Lion Dance competition at Da Nang’s Helio entertainment centre on September 14-16.

 Ravolution Music Festival – one of the most anticipated EDM (Electronic Dance Music) festivals – will be held in Bach Khoa Stadium, Hanoi on September 29.

 A Korean contemporary fine art exhibition named “Colors of Korea” is underway at the Korean Cultural Centre in Hanoi until September 7.

 Around one thousand plastic bottles have been turned into colourful toys and useful teaching tools under a social project recently initiated by Vietnamese architect students. 

 Feature film Dao Cua Dan Ngu Cu (The Island of Aliens or The Way Station) by director Nguyen Hong Anh has been honoured with the Best Story award at the 58th Asia Pacific Film Festival.

 A ceremony was held in Da Nang central city on August 31 to receive the title of National Capital 2018 by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)’s One Planet City Challenge programme.

 Manzi Art Space in Hanoi will host “Shades of the Sounds”, a contemporary music concert by the Hanoi New Music Ensemble and Dong Kinh Co Nhac on September 8, 2018, starting at 8 p.m.

 Actress and film producer Truong Ngoc Anh has received an invitation to serve on the jury of the 58th Asia-Pacific Film Festival set to run from August 30 to September 2 in Taipei (Taiwan).

Nguyen Thi Ngoc Chau overcame 14 other finalists to take the crown of Miss Supranational Vietnam 2018 in the grand finale of the pageant in Seoul, the Republic of Korea on August 22.

 More than 1 million students from primary to high schools in Ho Chi Minh City officially entered the new school year on August 20.

  A group of four Vietnamese students brought home a bronze medal for their impressive robotic design at the “2018 FIRST Global Challenge” international robotics competition in Mexico from August 15-18.