From November 20-23, the heritage house at 87 Ma May Street, Hanoi, will host tea-related cultural activities.
The 2009 Buon Ma Thuot Culture and Tourism Week under the theme ‘Legend of the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) Elephant’ will be held in the Central Highlands province of Daklak’s Buon Ma Thuot City and Buon Don District from December 16 to 22.
The Vietnam-China International Trade and Tourism Fair will be held in Mong Cai City, Quang Ninh Province from December 4-9, 2009 to provide a good chance for businesses from the two countries to seek investment opportunities.
Quang Nam Tourism and Culture Week will take place from November 20 to 23 with aim to promote culture, history and tourism of the central province of Quang Nam to Hanoi people and domestic and foreign investors.
Both young and veteran performers from 29 troupes across the country will compete at the National Professional Cai Luong Festival 2009 scheduled to begin on November 17 in Can Tho City. The festival aims to encourage and support young artists in developing their careers.
Forty troupes from both inside and outside the country will attend the International Gong Festival, to be held in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai from November 12-15. Besides 35 local troupes, artists from Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Laos and Myanmar will bring their “gongs†to the event.
The “Meet Vietnam 2009†programme will take place in San Francisco, California, the US, from November 15-16, beginning a series of activities to promote Vietnam’s external economic sector as well as the image of the country in California.
The Ministry of Information and Communications and the People’s Committee of Lam Dong Province held a press conference on November 5 to announce the Dalat Flower Festival 2010, which is listed by the government as one of the national events celebrating the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.
Ho Chi Minh City will host a series of activities featuring Japanese culture and education that will last for a month, starting on November 10.
On the occasion of the official visit of Danish royal family to Vietnam from November 2 to 6, People’s Committee of Hanoi City and the Danish Embassy will organize the first street festival from 2.30pm to 9pm on November 3, 2009 in Ly Thai To Garden, Hanoi.
Vietnam’s first rice festival will take place in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang on November 28, two days later than initially planned. The festival’s organising board said that by October 27 hundreds of enterprises from 30 provinces and cities nationwide had registered to open more than 400 stands at the event.
3rd Asian Indoor Games (AIG 3) with the motto "For a rising Asia" will be organized in Vietnam from October 30 to November 8, 2009. This event is an opportunity to promote beautiful Vietnam country and friendly, hospitable Vietnamese people to the world.