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A string of cultural and sport events will be held during the Ooc Om Bok festival in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang from November 5-11.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, in coordination with five northern mountainous provinces, opened the second Thai Cultural Festival 2019, in Dien Bien province’s Dien Bien Phu City, on October 18.

A ceremony was held inTuyen Quang to receive a certificate recognising the art of Red Dao ethnic people’s traditional costume decoration as a national intangible cultural heritage.

National Assembly Vice Chairman Uong Chu Luu attended the opening of the “Through the legacy of Hoang Su Phi terraced fields” culture week that was opened in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang on September 21.

The central province of Ninh Thuan has provided training courses on Cham ethnic language to grassroots cadres.

The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology has organised several activities to help children learn more about traditional games and fruit trays in the festival.

Traditional cultural values of ethnic communities in the northwestern region are being introduced at a festival which opened in Son La city of Son La province on August 18.

A kaleidoscope of Vietnamese cultures, traditional practices and breathtaking world heritage sites are featured at the “Vietnam-Cultural Colours” exhibition, which is scheduled for August 18-21 in the south central province of Phu Yen.

The 14th festival of northwestern culture, sports and tourism will take place in Son La city from August 18 – 20, with over 1,000 artists and ethnic people from Son La, Hoa Binh, Dien Bien, Lai Chau, Lao Cai, Yen Bai and Phu Tho taking part.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on July 29 asked the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang to ensure environmental quality from water resources to land and air, not destroying natural landscape because of short-term vision.

The Hanoi Journalists Association had a working session with its Korean counterpart and the Asia Today media group on July 24 to discuss bilateral cooperation.

Cultural heritages have becoming a valuable resource to develop community-based tourism in many localities nationwide. Efforts in adding values to the heritages by government agencies in many localiti

As many as 80 artists from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) are to perform together at the Korean Cultural Exchange Festival on June 30 in Hanoi.

The management of religious and worshipping places is one of the issues of great interest of National Assembly deputies at the question-and-answer session in the June 6 morning.

Solutions to superstitious practices in the name of religion were highlighted by Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thien while replying to legislators’ questions on June 6 morning.

Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung and Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung pointed out difficulties and shortcomings facing the economy in their reports presented at the 14th National Assembly’s seventh session in Hanoi on May 31.

An ancient ritual was recreated over the weekend in Hanoi as part of the opening of the Doan Ngo festival, held at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel.

Vietnamese movie “Co Ba Sai Gon” (The Tailor) was recently screened in the UK on the occasion of the ASEAN Film Festival, which took place in London from May 21-25.

Tangible and intangible cultural heritages of the central city of Da Nang are being introduced to the public at a photo exhibition opened on April 24.

Hundreds of artisans, artists, and village elders from many regions across the country gathered in Hanoi in a special programme aiming to promote the cultural identities of ethnic communities.