Ten Vietnamese artists will join 74 others from 23 countries to showcase their artworks at an international women artists’ exhibition to be held in the US next month.

Four American teen movies, including Oscar-winner “Breaking Away” and mega-hit “Twilight,” will be shown free in Hanoi next month.

Vietnam welcomed around 410,000 foreign tourists in July, bringing the total number of foreign visitors to the nation in the first seven months of the country to more than 2.9 million, a year-on-year rise of almost 35 percent.

In a bid to preserve traditional Vietnamese folk music, HCM City's Phan Dinh Phung Primary School has begun teaching pupils how to play the dan tranh – a 16-string zither.

Brazil and China can share their experience in world heritage preservation to boost cultural exchanges, Minister of Culture Joao Luiz Silva Ferreira said on Monday.