A set of Nguyen Dynasty wood blocks has become the first piece of Vietnamese heritage recognized as a World Memory by UNESCO, according to Pham Sanh Chau, secretary general of UNESCO Vietnam.
Nearly 200 outstanding students and lecturers from universities in the Asia-Pacific region are gathering at a week-long summer camp in the central province of Khanh Hoa.
Craftsmen in Thanh Hoa Province are making necessary preparations to cast 100 bronze drums for the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.
A summer camp, held recently for Vietnamese who are living and studying in Finland, has received a warm response from over 500 Vietnamese teenagers and overseas Vietnamese families.
Ho Chi Minh City’s Rong Vang (Golden Dragon) water puppetry troupe has recently taken part in an international festival for teenagers in Tokyo, Japan.
The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) and the Vietnam-France Friendship Association (VFFA) held a peace and friendship festival at the Hanoi Children’s Palace on July 30.
Twenty Vietnamese students have attended a cultural exchange with Thai peers entitled “Vietnam visits Thailand†in Bangkok from July 28 to August 17.
The management board of the Tuyen Lam tourist site in the resort city of Dalat, Lam Dong Province, has announced it will plant nearly 600,000 cherry trees in Dalat from now to 2015.
Hanoi will organise seven special tourism programmes to celebrate the millennial birthday of the capital city in 2010, according to the Hanoi Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Local and foreign tourists to Vietnam will enjoy price discounts ranging from 30 to 50% of 99 tours around the country for two months, starting from August, 2009.
A project to preserve the gong culture of ethnic minority in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong will be put in action from 2010-2015, according to provincial authorities.
A delegation including 15 reporters from Hong Kong newspapers and representatives of Vietnam Airlines in Hong Kong recently made a tour of Danang City.