The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on December 29 announced the top 10 culture, sports and tourism events in 2015, which were voted by 121 journalists representing media agencies.
Hundreds of representatives from 54 ethnic groups throughout the country took part the opening ceremony of the National Great Unity – Vietnamese Cultural Heritage Week on November 15 night.
A string of Vietnamese cultural extravaganza will take place during Vietnam Cultural Heritage Week 2015, held at the National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism in Son Tay town’s Dong Mo, Hanoi.
The Vietnam Cultural Heritage Week 2015 will be organised at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism in Son Tay Town's Dong Mo on the outskirt of Hanoi on November 15-23.
Vietnam Pictorial, one of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA)’s publications, on October 16 hosted a ceremony to launch a Korean-language column on its website, http://vietnam.vnanet.vn.
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong had a meeting with US religious
dignitaries on July 7 (local time), stating that Vietnamese people live
in harmony without religious or ethnic conflict.
A cultural extravaganza promoting the vibrant traditional customs of
54 Vietnamese ethnic minorities was held on March 29 at the Culture-
Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups, outside of Hanoi, to
welcome delegates to the 132 nd Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly
(IPU-132).
State President Truong Tan Sang on March 5 met with over 150 poets,
writers, and translators from more than 40 countries and territories who
are in Hanoi to attend a number of literary events.
It is unity and consistent
efforts to build trust and consensus of responsibilities that made the
ASEAN community a success, said Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh on
November 21.
The “ASEAN great unity days - One vision, one identity, one community”
will be organised at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and
Tourism in Hanoi on November 21-23, aiming at enhancing mutual
understanding and connection among the bloc’s member states.
The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology ranks fourth in the list of Asia’s top
25 attractive museums in Asia, up from sixth place in 2013, according to
Museum Director Vo Quang Trong.
Vietnam is banking on domestic tourists to boost the fortunes of the
tourism industry, especially in terms of ensuring its stable growth,
the Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper reported.
More than 100 photos featuring the life and culture of 54 ethnic groups
of Vietnam are on display at the Luxembourg gardens of the French
Senate in an exhibition themed “ Vietnam - Unity in diversity – 54
faces and costumes of Vietnam’s ethnic groups.”
Portraits of Vietnamese ethnic groups taken by photographers Sebastien
Laval from France and Le Vuong of Vietnam are on show in the Luxembourg
Gardens in Paris until July 6.
The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology has received a Certificate of
Excellence from TripAdvisor.com, the world’s largest travel website,
the Museum’s Director Vo Quang Trong said on May 21.
With a population of more than 90 million, Vietnam is a potential market
for domestic tours, reported the Vietnam Economic News, adding that the
domestic market will be extremely lucrative if businesses know how to
connect with each other to exploit it.
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