Việt Nam News

The central city’s tourism promotion centre, in co-operation with HanaTour company, has launched an Instagram photo contest – Đà Nẵng in My Heart – for Koreans living in Việt Nam and abroad.

The 'Great Unity of Ethnic Groups-Vietnamese Cultural Heritage' week 2021 has taken place at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism in Hà Nội’s Sơn Tây District.

A number of routes with tourism destinations within HCM City have been created to encourage inner-city travel.

An art exchange event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Việt Nam and Norway was held at the Residence of the Norwegian Ambassador to Việt Nam, Ms Grete Løchen, on Thursday. 

Beautiful images of the country and people of Việt Nam will be displayed at the Vietnam International Photography Festival in Ninh Bình from November 26.

Tradition theatrical art is facing an existential crisis to its very existence, due to a lack of engagement and consistent interest from audiences, especially on the traditional stage. 

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Norweigan - Vietmanese diplomatic ties (1971-2021), the Norwegian Ambassador to Việt Nam, H.E. Ms Grete Løchen, looks back on the quality cooperation between the two countries and the shared vision for the future. 

Poets Nguyễn Đình Chiểu and Hồ Xuân Hương, alongside 58 other cultural icons, have been officially honoured by UNESCO, with their birth and death anniversaries to be commemorated between 2022 and 2023.

A conference to celebrate and preserve Việt Nam’s cultural heritage has been launched with top government officials including President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc and Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng in attendance.

The National Museum of Vietnamese History in downtown Hà Nội is hosting an exhibition titled ‘Vietnam ceramics: A Separate Tradition – From the An Biên Collection’. Most of the objects belong to a private collection owned by businessman Trần Đình Thăng from the northern coastal city of Hải Phòng. Lê Hương speaks with Phạm Quốc Quân, the former director of the museum and a member of the Việt Nam Culture Heritage Association’s Executive Board on the role of private collectors in preserving cultural heritage.

The HCM City Fine Arts Association is hosting a month-long exhibition of its members’ artworks to celebrate its 40th anniversary.

First prize in the Young Francophones Reporters – Việt Nam 2021 — a writing contest in French held by Le Courrier du Vietnam (CVN) a weekly French-language newspaper under Việt Nam News Agency, has been awarded to Nguyễn Lê Diệu Thư and Lê Trọng Tường Uyên, students from HCM City University of Social Sciences and Humanities.

With borders closed, many tour guides are becoming creative. One guide is offering virtually tours to give people a taste of Vietnam. He believes this could be the future of vacations.

Many activities to honour the national tangible and intangible cultural values have been organised nationwide to celebrate Vietnam Cultural Heritage Day that fell on November 23.

Farmers in Hải Dương, Nam Định and Thái Bình harvest tonnes of clam worms towards the end of the year, supplementing their main income.

Some 80 ceramic pieces, representing the pottery making history of Việt Nam, are being exhibited at the National Museum of Vietnamese History in downtown Hà Nội.

The “Postcards from the pandemic” project in Hà Nội provides a space for people to express how they feel about COVID-19 and social distancing.

Mắt Biếc (Dreamy Eyes) by director Victor Vũ won the top award, the Golden Lotus for Feature film, at the 22nd Việt Nam Film Festival.