Hoang Long, a private museum located in
the city of Thanh Hoa, was recognised as the country’s first private
antiques museum by the Vietnam Guinness Records on August 23.
A festival dedicating to “ then” – the
traditional singing of the Tay and Nung ethnic people - will kick off
tonight in the northern province of Bac Can.
The Ordos Song and Dance Troupe from
Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region in northern China, will perform
in Vietnam from September 1-7 to strengthen cultural links between the
two countries.
“I felt it was an obligation that I
could not deny. This seems to me a combination both of my own work as a
writer, and also a way of ending the war for myself and for Homer,”
said American author Wayne Karlin describing his new book “Wandering
souls”.
All 12 sites for the eight sports included in the third
Asian Indoor Games (AIG) to be held in Ho Chi Minh City in October,
will be ready for use by the end of September.
A stone stele, chiselled with ancient Champa script, was
unearthed in the central province of Phu Yen , and believed to be a
very significant archaeological find, said a provincial official.
A ceremony to inaugurate and hand over
to the Laos Ministry of National Security a centre for criminal science
- a project built with the Vietnamese government’s non-refundable aid -
was held in Vientiane on Aug. 25.
Overseas Vietnamese in Laos gathered at
a music gala night to celebrate the 64th anniversary of the August
Revolution and Vietnam’s National Day on September 2.
The leather and footwear sector is
estimated to earn 4.59 billion USD from export this year, equal to last
year’s figure but down 10 percent from its yearly target.
The inclusion of Vietnamese martial arts
(Vovinam) as a competitive event at the Asian Indoor Games (AIG 3),
which will take place in November in Hanoi, has helped raise the art’s
position in the world arena.
The 2 nd meeting of the Vietnam-Sri
Lanka Joint Committee on Economic, Scientific and Technological
Cooperation took place in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo from August
10-11.
The Cambodian Ministry of Education,
Youth and Sports has announced that it will add the 1975-1979 Khmer
Rouge era in the country’s high school curricula.
The 25 th pre-SEA Games regional badminton tournament, named
the “2009 Laos International Challenge ”, will take place from July 28
– August 1 in the Laos capital of Vientiane.
Archaeologists have found evidence of
pre-historic human habitation dating back as much as 10,000 years at
the Son cave in the northern province of Ninh Binh.
XIII National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam
