How can Vietnam develop its own rich cultural traditions and transform them into world class festivals?

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc lauded the strong growth across all fields of the Việt Nam-Japan extensive strategic partnership as he received Special Advisor to the Japanese Cabinet Isao Iijima in Hà Nội on Friday.

Hà Nội would host a conference to promote investment and tourism co-operation between Hà Nội and Japan on March 29, according to the city’s People’s Committee.

The 2019 Japan Cherry Blossom Festival will come to Lý Thái Tổ Park beside Hoan Kiem Lake in Hà Nội on March 29-31.

The strategic partnership between Việt Nam and Japan is expected to enter a new period of development, especially in the fields of trade, economy, defence-security, health, high technology, locality-to-locality co-operation, and people-to-people exchanges.

More than 8,000sq.m of special-use forests were destroyed in just three months between July and September in Đông Mệt Village, Pá Khoang Commune, Điện Biên District, in the northern mountainous province of Điện Biên.

Authorities have confirmed a serious case of deforestation has occurred in this northern mountain province, resulting in the destruction of about 80 percent of the special forest areas in Pá Khoang Commune.

Monsoon Music Festival (MMF), Việt Nam’s biggest music event, will now be celebrated annually as part of an ambitious plan to develop culture in the capital through 2020, with a vision to 2030. The plan was recently approved by the Hà Nội’s People’s Committee head, Nguyễn Đức Chung.

Yellow ochna flowers from the Yên Tử sacred mountain and the cherry blossoms from Japan will meet each other again at a festival honouring the two flowers in Quảng Ninh Province next month.

On the occasion of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan’s 83th birthday, Việt Nam News presents an article written by H.E. Kunio Umeda, Japan’s Ambassador to Việt Nam.