A ceremony to inaugurate the Mahatma Gandhi bust took place on August 27 at the Indian Embassy in Hanoi as this year Indian people are celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany Doan Xuan Hung handed over 18 antiques from different cultural periods to the National Museum of Vietnamese History in Hanoi on August 9.
Collector Nguyen Ngoc An has donated 367 antiques from different periods in history to Ba Ria-Vung Tau province’s museum.
Authorities in the central province of Thanh Hoa have approved a plan to excavate an ancient citadel with unique architecture in Southeast Asia.
Nearly 300 artifacts dating back centuries ago are on display at the Vietnam National Museum of History from April 12.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Germany on March 29 received antiques which Berlin police seized from an unidentified Vietnamese entrepreneur in late 2016.
A clay mould in the form of a Bodhi leaf, dating back 700 years, has been unearthed among other valuable antiques at an excavation site in the central province of Ha Tinh.
Retired police officer Dang Minh Tam is passionate about preserving the artefacts of ethnic groups in the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) region.
Art researcher and critic Iola Lenzi arrived in Vietnam for the first time 20 years ago and was charmed by the refined culture.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended the ground-breaking ceremony for the new headquarters of the Embassy of Vietnam in New Delhi, India on January 25 during his visit to India for the ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit.
HCM City’s Ben Thanh Market area houses the oldest and most famous tea store in the city, opened in the early 20th century.
Hanoi’s Culture and Sports Department has sent a letter urging the municipal People’s Committee to preserve an archaeological site dating back to 1,000 BC in the city’s western outskirts.
The 16 winners of the Vietnam Heritage Photo Award 2017 were honoured at an award ceremony on November 21.
The art of making poonah paper from the bark of a tree for artwork and votive offerings is being revived in Yen Thai, a village outside Hanoi that made the product for at least 600 years.
An excavation team from the Vietnam Institute of Archaeology and the Bac Giang provincial Museum has discovered valuable artifacts after a month-long excavation in the remnants of Ma Yen pagoda.
Photos depicting intangible and tangible heritages of Vietnam are on display at the Ho Guom Cultural Information Centre located in Hanoi’s Old Quarter, which gathers many international tourists everyday.
A little weekend market, located in a café in alley 311 on No Trang Long street, Binh Thanh district, has been well-known among antique hunters in Ho Chi Minh City since 2013.
Although creative industries remain modest in Vietnam, there are certain local advantages for them to develop in the country.
