Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, launched the Vietnam-Japan cultural space in Hoi An ancient town, the central province of Quang Nam, on November 11.

 The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism named top 20 entries of a poster contest on the APEC Year 2017 at a ceremony held in Hanoi on November 3.

 Choreographer Alexander Tu and The Young Lyricist will represent Vietnam to compete at Dance Proms 2017 in London, the UK in November.

VietNamNet Bridge - Continuing the success of previous sessions, this November “Hidden Beat” will be back with the stimulating yet deep, moving jazzy melodies from SamRaz. 

 The Department of Performing Arts has asked the organisers of the Miss Ocean Vietnam 2017 to report back on accusations that the winner had plastic surgery.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Japan Foundation in Hanoi and Nha Nam Publishing House will co-organize the meet-up and discussion with Japanese writer Ono Masatsugu on his works with the topic of “Write painlessly about pain” tomorrow.

 Hundreds of talented Vietnamese and foreign classical musicians took an audition for the Sun Symphony Orchestra (SSO) – Vietnam’s first private symphony orchestra - in Hanoi from October 19-21.

 Fire dancing by the Red Dao ethnic group is a special cultural feature in Ha Giang Province. Strong and courageous men shuffle around on burning coals in bare feet, surprising tourists unaware that the practice exists in Vietnam.

A symphony concert with the performance of German conductor Gudni Emilsson, violinist Trong Binh and the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra will be held on October 28 at the Hanoi Opera House, 1 Trang Tien, Hanoi.

Vietnamese representative Ha Thu took part in a bikini contest with the other contestants at Miss Earth 2017 on October 18 in the Philippines.

Vietnam boasts countless breath-taking views, which are being hailed as a ‘paradise’ for wedding photographs by couples and photographers. 

Traditional long dress weighing 30 kilograms of Huyen My, the Vietnamese representative at Miss Grand International 2017, has ranked second in top 15 favourite national costumes, according to organizers of the beauty pageant.

 Agar jelly is a familiar dessert to many people due to its sweetness. In recent years, the dessert hasfound hundreds of forms, from jelly flan, Mid-Autumn Festival jelly cake to 3D jelly. Of which, the most outstanding form is gracilaria agar jelly.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Spanish Film Festival 2017 will be held at the National Cinema Center, Hanoi from October 17 to 22.

VietNamNet Bridge – “Undone”, a solo exhibition by Hanoi-based visual artist Nguyen Tran Nam, is underway at Manzi Art Space, 14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi until October 31.

 Vietnam should learn from advanced early childhood education models of foreign countries and apply best practices in order to achieve its set target in developing pre-school education, heard an international workshop in Hanoi on October 11. 

 An exhibition of artifacts, entitled “The Vietnam War: 1945 – 1975”, is underway at the New-York Historical Society Museum, New York, the US until April 22, 2018, giving museum goers an insight into conflict. 

 More than 8,000sq.m of special-use forests were destroyed in just three months between July and September in Dong Met village, Pa Khoang commune, Dien Bien district, in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien.

 The First Ban Gioc Waterfall Festival and Then singing and Tinh (musical instrument) performance kicked off in Trung Khanh district, the northern border province of Cao Bang, on October 7.

 Many historical sites in the centre of Hanoi have been used as parking lots, particularly in the Old Quarter.