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Real Bean Coffee, Trung Nguyen Legend and Lamant Coffee won the gold, silver and bronze prizes at the first Vietpresso Contest held in Ho Chi Minh City last week.

The fifth buckwheat flower festival has been in full bloom in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang since mid-November with various cultural activities to last through December.

A young man from H’Mong ethnic community Cu A Sua has studied and discovered a formula to cure several hepatic diseases for a reasonable price.

The Soc Trang-based ST24 rice variety was honoured as having the best flavour in the world, as it received the World’s Best Rice 2019 award at the 11th Annual World’s Best Rice Contest in the Philippines on November 12.

The fourth Vietnam Rice Festival will take place in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long on December 13-19 with a view to promoting agro-economy and rice trade in domestic and foreign markets.

Ca tru singing was put on a list of Intangible Cultural Heritages in need of urgent safeguarding back in 2009 due to the dwindling number of people who had mastered the art.

A Vietnam-Laos cultural space and exchange programme took place in the northern province of Thai Nguyen on November 8.

Digital transformation would push Vietnam’s finance-banking system in the years to come, helping it catch up with global standards, said Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Nguyen Kim Anh.

The award presentation ceremony for the Young Francophones Reporters–Vietnam 2019 contest was held in Hanoi on November 8.

A photo exhibition is being held at the Korean Cultural Centre in Hanoi to introduce beauty and history of Baekje Historic Areas, a UNESCO world heritage site.

The London Chamber Orchestra will perform in Hanoi for the first time in an annual concert entitled Toyota Classics 2019 on November 8 night.

A series of events will be held in Jakarta, Indonesia from November 8 – 18 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh’s historic visit to Indonesia.

The three-day Xposition ‘O’ contemporary dance fiesta (XPO) is introducing contemporary dance performances to local audiences at the Soul Lie Project Complex in HCM City.

The 11th Vietnam International Retail Tech and Franchise Show (VIETRF) opened on October 31, gathering 180 franchise brands and 100 technology companies in Ho Chi Minh City.

Surpassing other nine finalists, "Bi, Khong So Nua" (Bi, No More Fear), a film by Ho Chi Minh City-based video production FGS, won the highest prize in 48 Hour Film Project Vietnam.

Thirty-nine secondary school students of Hanoi have been honoured at the International Science Competition 2019 (ISC 2019), which was held in Bogor, Indonesia from October 24 – 27, according to the municipal Department of Education and Training.

During a working session with Dutch Ambassador to Vietnam Elsbeth Akkerman in Hanoi on October 23, Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung spoke highly of the effective cooperation between the two sides in various field, especially culture.

A photo contest has kicked off to start the #VietnamNOW campaign as part of the country’s inbound marketing strategy.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Malaysia in collaboration with the Vietnamese Women’s Club in the host nation on October 19 organised the first Ao dai (traditional long dress) contest for Vietnamese women living and working in the country.

A contest to honour the beauty and talent of female journalists and MCs has been announced in Hanoi.