The Brahminical Cham community celebrated the Kate Festival on the first day of the seventh month of the Cham calendar (October 18 by solar calendar) to revere its gods, heroes, ancestors, and kings.
The People’s Committee of Can Tho City coordinated with related departments on October 26 to build a consensus on permitting Dia Cau Trading and Service Co. Ltd to create a promenade and food court on Ninh Kieu Wharf to attract domestic and foreign tourists.
A German photojournalist who was only 20 years old when he was on assignment in Vietnam in the 1960s has returned to exhibit a new collection of photos that juxtapose the old with the new.
Vietnam’s representative at the upcoming Miss World pageant in South Africa will present the 1,000-year history of Hanoi Capital to the rest of the world.
“Lotusâ€, a cultural art performance of Vietnam, was held in Paris’ District 10, France, drawing crowds of Vietnamese residents and French people.
The Vietnamese cultural association in Germany was founded at a congress in Berlin on October 24 to maintain and develop Vietnam’s cultural values and promote its images.
The Vietnamese Embassy held a meeting in France on October 26 with Vietnamese individuals and organisations actively involved in the “Study and work following Uncle Ho’s example†campaign.
Representatives of 193 UNESCO members have passed a resolution on the participation in the grand ceremony to mark the millennial anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi in October, 2010.
A photo contest promoting tourism has been launched under the theme of Vietnam - My Homeland.
An exhibition sheds a new and interesting light on Vietnam’s people and land to fellow countrymen and international friends in France.
The American people now have the chance to learn more about Vietnamese fine arts, as well as its culture, when “Arts of Ancient Vietnam: From River Plain to Open Sea†opens at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (MFAH), Texas.
An exhibition introducing the Taoism worshipping tradition upheld by ethnic people in the northern mountainous areas of Vietnam opened in Hanoi on October 21.