Traditional rituals were held in the northern province of Phu Tho to commemorate the death anniversary of the nation’s legendary founder Lac Long Quan and mother Au Co.
More than 300 delegates, who are foreign diplomats in Hanoi, their spouses, and representatives from international and non-governmental organisations participated in a spring tour in Hanoi on Mar. 13.
Overseas Vietnamese in Cambodia offered incense to soldiers who dedicated their lives to the war against genocide, during a requiem in Battambang province on March 12.
The Yen Tu spring festival officially opened on February 17, the 10th day of the first lunar month, at the Yen Tu historical site, in northern Quang Ninh province.
Nearly 100,000 local and foreign visitors flocked to central province of Quang Binh to offer incense to late General Vo Nguyen Giap during nine days of the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.
The ninth National Patriotic Emulation Congress is scheduled for December 6 and 7 in Hanoi, the organizers said at a press briefing on November 30 in the capital.
The Vietnam Summer Camp in Ho Chi Minh City, which saw the participation of more than 160 overseas Vietnamese youth from 21 nations and territories, came to an end on July 30.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) is planning
a host of activities to pay homage to war heroes and devotees in
celebration of the 68th anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs Day
(July 27).
Ho Chi Minh City plans to organise a number of activities to
celebrate the 125th birthday of the late President Ho Chi Minh for
whom the city is named after.
Leaders of the Party, State, NA and
Government on April 29 laid a wreath of
flowers in homage to late President Ho Chi Minh on the
40th anniversary of the Liberation of South Vietnam and National
Reunification.
As an annual tradition, a delegation of overseas Vietnamese will attend
ceremonies on the occasion of the death anniversary of Hung Kings from
April 22 to 29 at the invitation of the Committee for Overseas
Vietnamese Affairs.
Nearly 700 overseas Vietnamese from different countries and territories
gathered on Februray 8 at Ho Chi Minh City's Nha Rong Wharf to join this
year's Homeland Spring programme.
More than 500 domestic and foreign delegations visited the Kim Lien
relic site in central Nghe An province’s Nam Dan district on May 17-18
to offer incense to President Ho Chi Minh on the occasion of his 124 th
birthday (May 19).
A solemn requiem was held in the northwestern province of Dien Bien on
April 25 to commemorate the heroic soldiers who laid down their lives in
the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
A series of art performances and sports events will be held in Ho Chi
Minh City to mark the 39th anniversary of the National Liberation Day
(April 30) and the 128th May Day.
Some 2,000 overseas Vietnamese throughout the world will return to the
home country for “Xuan Que Huong” (Spring in the Homeland) – an annual
event to usher in the Lunar New Year at Thang Long imperial citadel in
Hanoi on January 23.
The Central Committee of the Vietnam Students’ Association (VSA) will
convene its ninth National Congress in Hanoi from December 27-29 to set
out its tasks for the next tenure and elect a 99-member executive board.
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XIII National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam
