Street performances involving nearly 1,000 people kick-started the 2015 Culture, Sports and Tourism Festival in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on January 31.
The 7th Da Nang International Fireworks Competition (DIFC) 2015 will take place in the central city on April 28-29, the municipal People’s Committee announced on January 30.
A national action programme to preserve and uphold values of Vi-Giam folk singing was launched right after the central provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh received the UNESCO certificate honouring the local singing as part of humanity’s intangible cultural heritage on January 31.
Traditional ethnic minority Tet customs of the H’Mong, Tay, Thai and Muong will be reinstated at a programme to take place from February 7th to 11th (from the 19th to 23rd day of the last lunar month) at the Culture –Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups in Son Tay town, Ha Noi.
Ho Chi Minh City’s annual book festival along Ham Nghi Street is scheduled to open on February 16, part of numerous events to welcome the Lunar New Year.
(TITC) – A ceremony to receive the UNESCO certificate recognizing Trang An Landscapes complex as World Cultural and Natural Heritage site took place in Ninh Binh Province on January 23, 2015.
Fireworks will light up the sky over the Red River in Ha Noi on the Lunar New Year’s Eve (February 18) as local authorities recently approved the display from the river’s alluvial ground under the Long Bien Bridge.
A festival promoting the brand of Dai Tu tea in the northern province of Thai Nguyen officially kicked off on January 25 at the Dai Tu district’s stadium, as one of the annual major economic, cultural and tourism events in the province.
The 2015 Spring Flower Festival, themed ‘Vietnamese Character–Vietnamese Spirit’, will kick off at Tao Dan Park in Ho Chi Minh City from February 13 to 24.
The Foreign Affair Ministry and 30 foreign embassies in Ha Noi hosted a food festival on January 24 in a bid to promote cultural exchange among nations and raise funds for orphans and the disabled.
The Trang An complex in the northern province of Ninh Binh received a certificate from UNESCO certificate officially recognising it as a combined natural and cultural World Heritage site at a grand ceremony on January 23.
The fifth Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival will take place in Central Highlands Dak Lak province’s Buon Ma Thuot city – the capital of Vietnamese coffee from March 9-12.