The Thoi Dai (Age) Publishing House has launched a new index of Hanoi’s Streets to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.
A thousand special copies of a book on the life and times of Hanoi over 1,000 years, by the leading expert on Hanoi, Nguyen Vinh Phuc will be sold to herald the capital city’s millennial celebration.
A cultural exchange between young ethnic people from Vietnam and China opened in Hanoi on September 14.
Fishermen in HCMC’s Can Gio District will celebrate the traditional whale worshipping festival for four days from September 21 to 24 (from the 14th to 17th of the eighth lunar month) in Can Thanh Commune.
A large number of overseas Vietnamese in the French capital city of Paris and surrounding areas participated in the Buddhist festival Vu Lan, which was held at the Truc Lam Monastery on September 12.
Dozens of activities featuring traditional and modern Japanese culture were the highlight of the Viet Nam – Japan Day in Youth Cultural House, HCMC on September 12.
Vietnam bagged two out of the total four gold prizes for performances at the second International Puppetry Festival, which closed in Hanoi on September 9.
Photographer Nguyen Duc Loi showed visitors photos of Ha Noi that are part of his private exhibition at Nguyen Hong Street.
Hanoi will provide 3.6 trillion VND (189 million USD) to preserve and develop craft villages over 2010-2015 to preserve traditional craft villages, develop tourism and build new ones while ensuring the environment is protected.
More than 150 overseas Vietnamese (OV) delegates from 14 French cities and provinces gathered at a meeting in Paris on September 8 to discuss solutions to develop Vietnam’s tourism sector.
The Italian embassy in Hanoi has announced the ‘Italian Music Month in Vietnam’ as part of the embassy’s activities to mark the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.
Vietnamese businesses need to pay more attention to designing and creating unique handicraft products in order to boost exports to the Japanese market and increase their competitiveness over rivals from China , India and Myanmar , say Japanese experts.