Vietnam protests the decision by China’s Hainan provincial authorities to establish village committees on Phu
Lam and Dao Cay Islands in Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago.
The visit to Vietnam by French Prime
Minister Francois Fillon will give new impetus to boosting
comprehensive cooperation, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said on Nov.
12.
A delegation from the Ho Chi Minh
Museum has just completed a week-long visit to Mexico City in early
November to boost bilateral cooperation in culture.
A German photojournalist who was only
20 years old when he was on assignment in Vietnam in the 1960s has
returned to exhibit a new collection of photos that juxtapose the old
with the new.
The Germany Foreign Ministry will
provide nearly 3 billion VND to conserve the Buu Thanh gate and screens
of King Tu Duc tomb, part of Hue ancient capital’s relic system.
The American people now have the chance to learn more about
Vietnamese fine arts, as well as its culture, when ‘Arts of Ancient
Vietnam: From River Plain to Open Sea’ opens at the Museum of Fine Arts
in Houston (MFAH), Texas.
An online dialogue themed “1000 years
of Thang Long-Hanoi - Traditional values” was held on Oct. 18, helping
readers better understand historical and cultural traditions as well as
valuable heritages of Thang Long-Hanoi.
A photo exhibition on the sea and
islands of Vietnam and historical documents seen as legal evidence of
Viet Nam’s sovereignty was opened in Ho Chi Minh City on Oct. 13.
Construction work on new National Assembly (NA) House started
in Hanoi’s Ba Dinh district on October 12 in the presence of Prime
Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
Travel Indochina, a leading Australian
tourist company, has become the country’s first operator to introduce
tours to Vietnam on the 1,000th founding anniversary of Thang
Long-Hanoi.
A film crew from the HCM City
Television Film Studio accompanied by fashion designers has travelled
around Viet Nam and Europe to make a documentary on the garments worn
by royals and commoners since the founding of Vietnam.
An overseas Vietnamese in the United States has been honoured
for his contributions to the mobilisation of the Vietnamese community
in the US to contribute to the homeland and conduct various charitable
and humanitarian activities.
Tuyen Quang province has approved a plan worth 9.8 billion VND (roughly 540,000
USD) to preserve the relic of a citadel built under Mac dynasty (1592).
Hanoi’s tourism authorities and travel
agents have kicked off various activities in the run up to National
Tourism Year 2010 which takes the theme of “Thang Long-Hanoi, a
thousand years of coming together.”
The scientific file on the Ho Dynasty
Citadel has been sent to Paris for consideration by the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) as a world
heritage site.
Top priority must be given to rescuing residents isolated by heavy rains and flooding, said Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai while chairing a teleconference with storm-hit central localities on September 29.