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.
The Vietnam Office of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) held a workshop in Hanoi on October
17 to develop a strategy to promote the country’s world heritages.
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).
A workshop gather in Hanoi on June 23 to discuss the preservation of
cultural values of the Giong festival and promote the festival-based
sustainable tourism development.
Many experts from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) along with domestic and foreign scholars
have discussed ways to preserve and promote folk values of Vi-Dam
singing in contemporary society.
Ethnic minority women in the central province of Quang Nam are enjoying a
better life thanks to a project co-funded by the Luxembourg Government
and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
(UNESCO).
World recognition is being sought for a vast archive of administrative
documents, many of them signed by the Nguyen kings from 1802 to 1945.
Some of them record Vietnam's ownership of islands in the East Sea.
Japan’s Nara National Research
Institute for Cultural Properties is developing technology to preserve
the valuable wooden relics in the Thang Long Imperial Citadel in Hanoi.
The G Cham tower group, one of the eight tower groups within the
UNESCO-recognised relic site in Duy Xuyen district, the central province
of Quang Nam, has been upgraded over the past decade.
Vietnam’s election to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee has proved
the country’s consolidated role, position and its determination of full
integration into world cultural cooperation.
Vietnam has been elected to the 21-member World Heritage Committee (WHC)
of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
(UNESCO) during the 2013-2017 tenure for the first time.
On November 7, 2003, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) announced its recognition of the Hue
royal court music or “Nha nhac” as an oral and intangible heritage of
humanity.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
(UNESCO) has adopted a resolution honouring Vietnamese poet Nguyen Du
and other world famous people at its ongoing 37th General Assembly in
Paris.
The management board of Mui Ca Mau (Ca Mau Cape) National Park and the southernmost province of Ca Mau’s local authorities have devised a
long-term plan to conserve biodiversity in the mangrove swamp
ecosystem.
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