A school of Ca Tru (ceremonial singing) made its debut in Hanoi on March 18, helping preserve humanity’s intangible cultural heritage.
Vietnamese traditional products are being showcased at the 15th handicraft and fine arts fair in Algeria's capital city of Algiers, which takes place from March 18-25.
The Hanoi Housing Development and Investment Corporation on March 19 kicked off a VND12 billion (USD613,000) project to refurbish the moat surrounding the Son Tay Ancient Citadel.
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) will focus its promotion programme in 2010 on the Russian market, said a VNAT official at the opening ceremony of the Moscow International Tourism Expo 2010 on March 17. According to Deputy Director of Department of Tourism Market under VNAT Nguyen Thanh Vuong, Vietnam received 50,000 Russian visitors in 2009 and expects to welcome 100,000 in 2010.
The Vietnam News Agency launched its website on Thang Long-Hanoi at www.hanoi.vietnamplus.vn on March 18, which becomes the first and only website on the capital city published in four languages. The site - a cooperative project between the People’s Committee ò Hanoi City and the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) - not only aims to serve the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi but also will be…
The first flight from Kansai, Osaka Province, Japan on March 18 landed in the central city of Danang, bringing 161 tourists and representatives of 17 travel agencies.
Vietnamese photographers have commemorated Dang Huy Tru, the founder of Vietnamese photography, at the Dang family temple in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.
Female painter Van Duong Thanh has made the old Hanoi revive through her 30 oil paintings that are being exhibited in the capital city’s Melia Hotel.
The Museum of Arts in Busan, the Republic of Korea (RoK), is hosting an exhibition of 100 outstanding paintings of Vietnam’s modern art, from March 10 to April 25. The displayed items are selected from a huge collection of 374 works by 25 painters. The collection was hand-picked and preserved by two Japanese collectors – Ito Toyochiki and Ito Tamiko – over the last 20…
A collection on epics of ethnic groups in the Central Highlands made its debut in Ho Chi Minh City on March 17.
An art programme named “Art Corner†will be held at 5pm every Wednesday at the Republic of Korea (RoK) Cultural Centre as part of activities for the Thang Long-Hanoi millennium anniversary.
About 25 art promoters and festival organisers from around the nation are attending the first training workshop on festival management in Vietnam from March 17-20.