A total of 55 photo collections featuring the beauty of Viet Nam’s land and people are being displayed at an exhibition in Nguyen Van Binh Book Street in Ho Chi Minh City.
Vietnamese agencies, including the National Institute of Music, Folk Arts Association of Viet Nam and Viet Nam Musicians’ Association, are aiming to ally with the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sports to propose to UNESCO to recognise dan bau, the nation’s monochord zither, as a world heritage.
According to Ha Noi City Department of Culture and Sports, Ha Noi Ca tru festival 2016 will take place at the Temple of Literature from November 11th to 13th.
Viet Nam’s culinary art was introduced to Swiss friends at a programme recently co-hosted by Alimentarium - the Museum of Nutrition in Vevey city of Switzerland and the Vietnamese Embassy in the country.
Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, will take place at GEM Centre in Ho Chi Minh City on November 5.
The northern mountainous province of Ha Giang will install 45 free wifi hotspots in 21 major tourist destinations in Ha Giang city and four mountainous districts of Quan Ba, Yen Minh, Dong Van and Meo Vac, which lie within the Dong Van Karst Plateau Global Geopark.
We took a coach from Ho Chi Minh City to Cai Be at midnight after an exciting talk about floating markets where boats full of fruits, vegetables and other goods gather and sellers on board their boats noisily talking in the early morning. After an hour-long trip, we headed for Cai Be wharf. The whole street was quiet but there were some dogs barking in…
A ceremony was held in the central province of Ha Tinh on September 25 to receive a certificate recognising the Woodblocks of Phuc Giang School as a documentary heritage by UNESCO’s Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific (MOWCAP).
Da Nang is ready for the fifth Asian Beach Games (ABG 5), which will take place from September 24 to October 3, said Dang Viet Dung, Vice Chairman of the Da Nang city People’s Committee.
With beautiful landscapes, friendly people and special cultural identities, Sa Pa town in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai has been exerting every effort to become a key tourist attraction in the world.
The northern province of Hoa Binh and the Hanoi National University have jointly organised a conference to collect ideas on a project to develop the Hoa Binh Lake national tourist area, contributing to the sustainable development of the Northwestern region.
The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak will combine its coffee festival with its gong culture festival and introduce the first of this kind in 2017.