The Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST), Hoang Tuan Anh, visited Mexico from May 23-28 to strengthen bilateral ties in fields under his charge.
The fifth Vietnam International FICTS Festival – Sport, Tourism Movies and TV opened in the central city of Danang on May 27. Franco B. Ascani, President of the Federation Internationale Cinema Television Sportifs (FICTS), was among guests to the festival.
Nearly 50 photos on land and people of Vietnam taken by Italian photographer Maurizio Cofini are on display at an exhibition in Rome.
Work on the casting of a bell in celebration of the 1,000th founding anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi began at Quang An Pagoda in Hanoi’s outlying district of Thanh Tri on May 27. Once completed, the bell will have a diameter of 2.5m and a height of 3.5m and weigh 7 tonnes.
India’s famous dance troupe Odissi will perform in Hanoi on June 4 during their visit to Vietnam to attend the Hue Festival 2010.
Foreign arrives into Vietnam increased by 50.3% year on year to 440,000 in May, bringing the total number of foreign arrivals to 2.2 million in the first five months of the year or 37.7% over the same period last year.
The “Vietnam Week†and a photo exhibition on Vietnam kicked off in Mexico on May 25 as part of activities to mark 35 years of Vietnam-Mexico diplomatic ties.
Vietnamese folk singing or “Quan Ho Bac Ninh†has been included in the list of “Best in Asia 2010†published by the US magazine The Times. In an article entitled “Dial-a-Lovely-Old-Song†by Martha Ann Overland on May 13, the magazine categorised Vietnamese folk singing in the “The Best of Soul†section.
Buddhist monks and calligraphers have opened a huge arts exhibition with thousands of paintings, calligraphy works and sculptures at the Pho Quang Pagoda to celebrate the 2,554th birthday of the Buddha. The birthday observed on the 14th day of the 4th lunar month.
French artistes will play a substantial part in the Hue Festival 2010, which will take place in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue from June 5-13.
The HCMC Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism is inviting traders to join the Impressive Vietnam Grand Sale 2010 program and will receive registrations from next month, a tourism official said. La Quoc Khanh, Deputy Director of the department, said that shopping centers, retail outlets and other traders could register at the department office at 140 Nguyen Dinh Chieu Street in District 3.
An exhibition of ancient Asian artefacts has got underway in the National Museum of Vietnamese History in Hanoi.