The national commemoration of the Hung Kings and the Hung Temple Festival is a vivid manifestation the great national unity, showing the national responsibility to the country’s founders, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has said.
An exhibition called “Balgo: Contemporary Australian Art from the Balgo Hills†will open at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Nguyen Van Huyen Street, Hanoi on April 17. The event is a part of a program organized by the Australian Embassy called once in 1,000 years: An Australian Gift to Hanoi.
The first Viet Tri City Street Festival, in the midland province of Phu Tho, begins a ten-day national commemoration of the Hung Temple Festival on April 14.
Up to 22 capital and cities around the world and foreign embassies in Vietnam have registered to take part in activities marking 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi that will be held later this year. According to the National Steering Committee for the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi, the city of Fukuoka in Japan, has registered for Japanese culture days in Hanoi.
Vietnam and Cambodia are planning to work together more closely to increase the number of tourist arrivals in both countries, experts have said. The numbers of cruise ship travellers who visit the Angkor Wat complex in Siem Reap, Cambodia after visiting Vietnam are very high, according to Le Dinh Tuan, Chairman of the director board of Viet Excursions, which provides land tours for cruise guests.
Numerous objects dating from 4,000 years ago have been discovered during excavations recently carried out in the mountainous district of Son Ha in the central province of Quang Ngai.
Vietnamese students have joined their friends from Laos, Cambodia and Thailand in performing native music and dances in a cultural exchange programme held in HCMC to celebrate the traditional New Year in the three neighbouring countries.
An exhibition about the history, culture and politics of the Federal Republic of Germany has opened in HCMC.
The Dong Van stone plateau in the northern Ha Giang Province was presented at a UNESCO international conference on geological parks in Malaysia on April 12.
A friendship exchange programme was held in Hanoi on April 10 to mark the traditional Lunar New Years of Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar and the success of the 16th ASEAN Summit.
Vietnam’s Quan Ho (love duets) and Ca Tru (ceremonial singing) folk songs will be officially recognized by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritages at the Bac Ninh Festival 2010 due to open on April 19, 2010.
A royal procession of elephants, horses and hundreds of people dressed in Nguyen Dynasty ceremonial costumes was re-enacted in the evening of April 8 in the city of Hue.