The Hanoi Municipal People’s Committee on February 3 honoured 16 traditional craft villages and 17 artisans for 2009 in contributing to restoring and developing traditional handicrafts.
Over 100 artefacts dating back to the first millennium BC are on display at the office of the Asia Society in New York, with many of them going abroad for the first time. The exhibition themed “Art of Ancient Vietnam: from River Plain to Open Sea†showcases artistic objects featuring four key stages of development in Vietnamese cultural history.
Besides a series of activities to mark the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi, the Tet (Lunar New Year) Festival is expected to draw a large number of foreign tourists to Vietnam.
A total of 2,000 people are expected to join in drawing the “Tale of carp turning into dragon†painting at the Tet Viet 2010 Fair slated for the My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi on February 5.
Three arts troupes from Belgium will take part in Hue Festival 2010 in the central province of Thua Thien Hue from June 5 –13.
An exhibition showcasing 550 souvenirs in the wartime opened at the Hanoi-based Museum of Vietnam Military History on February 2 as witnessed by State President Nguyen Minh Triet.
Two decades after she first visited the country, Isabelle Aragon has not had her fill of Vietnam. She has traveled the length and breadth of the country since her maiden visit in 1989, and closing the way, recorded striking images of its landscape and its people.
A record number of 1,000 chung (square glutinous rice) cakes will be wrapped and boiled in one big pot this week and delivered directly to underprivileged children on the occasion of the Lunar New Year Festival.
The third round of the Kiteboard Tour Asia (KTA) wrapped up at Mui Ne Beach in the southern province of Binh Thuan on January 31.
The Vietnamese community in Belgium held a spring festival to welcome the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival from January 30-31.
Vietnam’s largest-ever tourism promotion program Impressive Vietnam has turned out a success by propelling the tourism industry’s revenue up 9% year-on-year to some VND70 trillion, but its bright side is limited to domestic travel only, officials said.
A seminar to collect ideas on effective measures to boost Vietnamese tourism was held in Hanoi on January 29. Speaking at the seminar, Director General of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) Nguyen Van Tuan said that promotion campaigns have made important contributions to the tourism sector’s current achievements.