“Music Interchange” - a collaborative project between the Australian National University and the Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music will kick off on January 12 at the HCMC Conservatory’s Concert Hall, the Australian Consulate-General in Ho Chi Minh announced on Tuesday.

Nearly 80 poets from throughout the world will gather in Viet Nam next month to take part in the first Asia Pacific Poetry Festival.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has permitted the Vietnam Institute of Culture and Arts Studies, the Vietnam Cultural Center in France in coordination with Bac Ninh and Bac Giang provincial Departments of Culture, Sports and Tourism to popularize quan ho folklore in France.

US Ambassador to Vietnam, Mr David B. Shear on January 5 cut the ribbon on an exhibition titled “Using safe, rational and effective medicine” at the Hanoi-based Vietnam National Library.

A cultural exchange between ethnic minority groups of Vietnam and Laos took place at the Lao National Culture Hall in Vientiane on December 28.

A Russian television channel, “Russia 2”, on January 2nd broadcast a one-hour program, “Top Gear”, to introduce Vietnam’s landscapes, customs as well as the life of Vietnamese people.