A ceremony to mark the 70th founding anniversary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) was organised at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel in Hanoi.
A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Pham Cong Tac is attending the 38th session of the UNESCO General Conference that kicked off in Paris on November 3.
The Embassy of Vietnam in Italy and the Association of Students of Vietnam in Italy have co-organised a “Day of Vietnamese Culture” in the central city of Cassino.
Cultural experts and Ca Tru (ceremonial singing) aficionados in Hanoi gathered at a talk held in the city on October 22, discussing measures to preserve this intangible cultural heritage.
Heritage preservation was singled out as a key measure to develop sustainable tourism in central Quang Nam province at a conference on cultural preservation and tourism development.
A geological park featuring the largest volcanic cavern system in Southeast Asia is expected to open in 2016 in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong.
A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ha Kim Ngoc attended the seventh Foreign Ministers Meeting (FMM 7) of the Forum for East Asia – Latin American Cooperation (FEALAC).
Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh thanked the
Swiss Government for its ODA provision to Vietnam while holding talks
with Head of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Didier Burkhalter.
President Truong Tan Sang attended the second and third plenary
sessions of the Asian-African Conference and met world leaders in
Jakarta, Indonesia on April 22.
Culture, sports and tourism sectors and travel firms in the central
provinces of Thua Thien-Hue and Quang Nam launched a wide range of
activities to promote their development of maritime-based tourism on
March 30-31.
Ideas and suggestions on balancing tourism development and heritage
preservation were put forwards at a tourism conference on the sidelines
of the Vietnam International Tourism Mart in Hanoi on April 3.
On the occasion of International Mother Language Day, the United
Nations in Vietnam has emphasised the significance of language in
ensuring quality education for all.
The website of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
(UNESCO) has included Yen Tu relic site in Vietnam ’s northeastern
province of Quang Ninh in the list of nominated heritages in the
coming time.
A Framework Agreement for
Cooperation (FAC) between the Association of Southeast Asia Nations
(ASEAN) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) was signed in
Jakarta, Indonesia on December 4.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has re-recognised the Dong Van Karst Plateau Geo-Park in the
northernmost mountainous province of Ha Giang as a member of the Global
Network of National Geoparks for the 2015-2018 period.
Over the past two decades, eight sites and eight cultural practices in
Vietnam have been inscribed in UNESCO’s lists of world tangible and
intangible heritage, while four national documentary heritage were added
to the Memory of the World list.
Party, State, and Government leaders and officials together with people
from all walks of life gathered at a ceremony in Hanoi on October 10 to
celebrate the 60th anniversary of the capital’s Liberation Day
(October 10, 1954).
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