Over the past 10 editions, with diverse and practical activities, the festival has affirmed its important role in enhancing cultural exchanges, boosting trade, investment and tourism promotion, and strengthening friendship and mutual understanding, according to Pham Dut Diem, Director of the municipal Department of External Relations.
The first Red River Festival 2025 opened on the evening of November 19 in Lao Cai, bringing together provinces along the Red River in Vietnam and China’s Honghe Prefecture (Yunnan). Held under the theme “Where the Red River flows into Vietnam,” the event marked a new milestone in regional cultural cooperation.
PM Pham Minh Chinh said the Vietnamese Government is committed to ensuring political stability, investment security, and the protection of the legitimate interests of foreign investors, including those from Kuwait.
Vietnam and Argentina agreed to jointly organise the first academic symposium in December 2025, co-hosted by the IEAS and the Argentine Embassy. The event will serve as a platform to discuss foreign policy, economic orientation and other topics of shared interest.
At the meeting, the two sides also discussed orientations to enhance cooperation in all fields, including economy–trade, defence–security, science–technology, energy, high-tech agriculture, strategic-level cadre training, culture, and people-to-people exchanges.
The Vietnam–Australia Friendship Association elected a 40-member Executive Board for the 2025-2030 term, with Prof. Dr. Tran Tho Dat, Chairman of the Science and Training Council at the National Economics University, named President.
The Vietnamese Government leader thanked Costa Rica for recognising Vietnam’s status as a market economy and expressed his belief that economic and trade relations between the two countries will grow significantly in the time ahead.
By 2030, Lam Dong aims to welcome between 40 and 45 million tourist arrivals annually, with international visitors accounting for 18–25% of the total.
The Vietnamese Australian Scholars & Experts Association (VASEA) and the Vietnam - Australia Cultural Exchange Organisation (VACEO) are set to carry out numerous activities next year to help reinforce multifaceted ties between the two countries.
The People's Committee of Dong Nai has issued a plan to implement the friendship cooperation programme between this southern province and Pinar del Rio province of Cuba.
The 12th Latin American Music Night took place in Hanoi on December 15, showcasing vibrant Latin music and culture.
Famous rock band Buc Tuong (The Wall) represents Vietnam at the ASEAN - India Music Festival 2024 that is taking place in New Delhi from November 29 to December 1.
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Vietnam always pays attention to further consolidating and strengthening the traditional friendship and comprehensive cooperation with Sri Lanka through the channels of Party, State, National Assembly and people-to-people exchange, Vietnamese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Trinh Thi Tam said.
The 8th Vietnam Festival opened in Yokohama city in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan, on September 7, marking another milestone in cultural exchanges between the two countries.
Vietnamese products and food are being promoted at a cultural exchange week held in Germany’s Leipzig city from August 24-30.
The third Namaste Vietnam (Hello Vietnam) Festival opened in Ho Chi Minh City on August 25, which is one of activities to celebrate the 52nd anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and India (1972-2024).
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 13 hosted a reception for Japanese Ambassador Ito Naoki who has just begun his working term in Vietnam.
The northern province of Dien Bien wants to expand cultural and people-to-people exchanges with Japan in the coming time, thus contributing to the close friendship between Vietnam and Japan, said Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Tran Quoc Cuong while receiving a delegation of the Vietnam-Japan Friendship Association on July 18.
Students at the Da Thanh Primary School in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong’s Da Lat city on June 26 kicked off cultural exchanges and experiential activities with 40 visiting lecturers and volunteer students from the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Gyeongsang National University.