The Bay Nui Ox Racing Festival in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang is expected to become an international event under a project recently approved by the provincial People’s Committee.
Tau Sai is an important event celebrating the coming of age of men and women among the Dao Tien ethnic minority group in the northern province of Cao Bang.
The policy of concentrating trusted capital from the local budget to support the poor to the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) has generated a motivation boosting the country’s economic development.
The luxurious building reflects the golden age of the father and son, Hoang Yen Tchao and Hoang A Tuong. It also reflects the hard and painful life of people in the remote border in the first half of the 20th century.
A group of young people from the central city of Da Nang led by Ho Ngoc Thanh have set up a volunteer programme to help poor sick people get to hospital.
Folk games are indispensable part of festivals because they make people happy and bonding relationship. Folk games are not only a source of entertainment but also imbued with cultural beauties and traditional values.
Masterpiece “Kieu Story” by renowned poet Nguyen Du has been brought to the new genre of opera under the name of “Kim Van Kieu” by Vietnamese and French performers.
There is a special painting class held every weekend in HCM City. The students and the teachers communicate by body language and the only sound that fills the room is the sound of colours.
At the mid-point between the old and new year, many people came to Ha pagoda in Hanoi to pray for good luck. This is also a beauty from many generations of Vietnamese people.
Dong Ho village in Song Ho commune of Thuan Thanh district, the northern province of Bac Ninh, is known as the cradle of one of the most famous folk painting genres of Vietnam.
Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong sent best wishes to all of the Vietnamese people, both inside and outside the country, on the traditional Lunar New Year.
Alfred Meza is a special American teacher who has spent a lot of time and enthusiasm on helping and inspiring hope for a better life of many disadvantaged people in Vietnam.
Pham Van Mang, Chairman of Ba Trang Commune’s People’s Committee in the central province of Quang Ngai, remembers the radiant faces and smiles of local people when a new bridge spanning the Tha Stream was opened thanks to the Central Highlands Poverty Reduction Project.
The San Diu ethnic minority group, who live in northern mountainous areas with a population of nearly 147,000, celebrate quite a lot of festivals the most important of which is Tet, the lunar New Year festival.
Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan has extended best wishes to religious dignitaries and followers in the city on the occasion of the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, which starts this weekend (January 25).
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