A music performance by Paola Turci, a renowned Italian singer, on May 26 raised the curtain on the second Vietnamese Culture Festival in the Italian capital.

“Following the success of the first festival in 2006, we organise the 2007 event in the hope of garnering more support to projects that the Italy-based Organisation for Unity and Cooperation for the Development of the People (UCODEP) is implementing to help the poor in Vietnam,” said organiser Corrado Ruggeri, who is a prominent Italian journalist.