The opening ceremony of the 2025 National Expanded Music Festival took place at the Southern Army Theatre in Ho Chi Minh City on the evening of October 30, bringing together hundreds of musicians and artists.

The 2025 Expanded National Music Festival will take place from October 29 to November 2 in Ho Chi Minh City, bringing together over 600 composers and performers from across Viet Nam.

The 2nd Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Week, a series of tourism-sport-music events serving domestic and foreign visitors, kicked off at a ceremony in the southern metropolis on December 5.