Nguyen Thị Tam is expected to make her second Olympic appearance while Luu Diem Quynh hopes to make her debut at the largest global sporting event this summer.
The Vietnam-Italy Year 2023 wrapped up at a ceremony in Milan city held by the Vietnamese Embassy in Italy on February 2, both in online and in-person formats.
Cultural tourism, eco-tourism, and coastal tourism are the main pillars that Quang Nam has developed into high-quality tourism offerings, and linked with major tourism centres nationwide.
For the Nung Din people, a branch of the Nung ethnic group, folk melodies hold immense significance in the spiritual life of the community. However, they have faced periods of neglect throughout history, overshadowed by war and poverty. Today, with stability in people’s lives, efforts from the community and local authorities are being made to revive and preserve these folk melodies.
The “Ong Cong, Ong Tao” (Land Genie and Kitchen Gods) worshipping ritual, held on the 23rd day of the 12th lunar month, which falls on February 2 this year, is also considered the start of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival - the biggest and most important traditional holidays of Vietnamese people.
Many of Vietnam's national team stars have fully recovered and returned to training and competition at their clubs, preparing for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers in March.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Cuba has organised activities to celebrate the Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival 2024, offering overseas Vietnamese in the Caribbean country opportunities to experience Tet atmosphere despite living far from the motherland.
A new oceanside, multimedia and multi-sensory show, created by an award-winning French producer, amazed a full house at the official premiere on January 26 in Sunset Town on Phu Quoc Island in the southern province of Kien Giang.
A stilt house in Con Cuong town in Con Cuong district, Nghe An province, has been a popular destination for several years among visitors interested in Thai ethnic culture. Owned by Mr Vi Van Phuc, a 78-year-old collector, the house showcases nearly 1,000 artifacts he has gathered over the years, turning the stilt house into a small museum.
Replicas of famous traditional Hang Trong folk paintings – a genre of traditional Vietnamese woodcuts by Hanoi artisans – are on display at an exhibition taking place right in its birthplace in Hang Trong ward in Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh urged the Hanoi-based Military University of Culture and Arts to play a more active role in preserving and developing the traditional culture sustainably while visiting the university on January 31.
The Vietnamese language has become a bridge to connect overseas Vietnamese with the homeland while serving as a messenger to popularise the country’s culture among US people, who previously only knew Vietnam as a war-torn land, according to a scholar in the US.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is compiling a draft directive on promoting the development of cultural industries, which stresses the importance of gradually building brand for national-level products and services.