A workshop to evaluate the historical aspects, customs, cultural values, and identity of Ao Dai, the traditional long dress of Vietnam opened in Ho Chi Minh City recently.
The northeastern province of Tuyen Quang boast great potential for tourism development, particularly historical and cultural tourism exploiting the many historical and revolutionary relics in the province.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on July 30 requested the central provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh to balance their annual budgets and mobilise funding from other sources to implement projects on protection and promotion of Vi Giam folk singing between 2021 – 2025.
While countries around the world are struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam is confidently dealing with new cases, keeping the situation under control, and is one of few nations recording positive growth in the first half of 2020.
Close to 2,000 runners from across Vietnam took part in the 61st Tien Phong Newspaper Marathon, the country’s oldest annual marathon, on Ly Son island in the central province of Quang Ngai on July 5.
The traditional ba khia (three-striped crab) sauce making in the southern province of Ca Mau has been officially recognised as the National Intangible Cultural Heritage.
The worship of Tay Thien Mother Goddess in Tam Dao district, the northern province of Vinh Phuc, has been recognised as an intangible national cultural heritage.
The Hanoi People's Committee has announced a plan to award titles of 'People's Artisan' and 'Meritorious Artisan' in the field of intangible cultural heritage for the third time in 2021.
Vietnam has added 11 more cultural icons to the list of national intangible cultural heritage, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
The art of folk singing alongside drums, hat trong quan in Vietnamese, started in Bui Xa village, in today’s Thuan Thanh district, the northern province of Bac Ninh, in the 13th century, but locals still practise the art.
As peach blossoms flaunt their deep pink colour on the threshold of spring, the melodies of folk music are everywhere in all the hamlets in the northern province of Lang Son.
The VFUA on January 15 hosted an international conference in Hanoi to discuss measures for conserving and upholding the values of culture heritages recognized by UNESCO.
Ca Mau province has received national recognition for gac keo ong (open hives made to lure wild bees) at U Minh Ha Forest, and muoi ba khia (fermented ba khia, or mangrove crabs, paste) as intangible
Boasting a long list of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, the northern province of Bac Ninh has huge potential to develop its non-smoke industry.
“Then” practice of Vietnam’s ethnic groups of Tay, Nung, Thai has been named in the list of Intangible Cultural Heritages of Humanity, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s Department of Cultural Heritage said on December 13.
Various folk activities will be on show at the first ever Folk Culture in Contemporary Life Festival this weekend at Ly Thai To Park in downtown Hanoi.
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XIII National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam
