Le Huu Trac, progenitor of Vietnamese traditional medicine, has been honoured as an eminent personality by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
Vietnam was elected member of the World Heritage Committee for the 2023 - 2027 tenure on November 22 with the highest number of votes among Asian-Pacific states.
Since 2005, November 23 has been celebrated as “Vietnam Cultural Heritage Day”, with the purpose of promoting traditions and a sense of responsibility about protecting and promoting the country’s cultural heritage values.
Tug-of-war rituals and games in Vietnam are practiced mostly in the midlands, the Red River Delta, and the North Central region, which are lands of longstanding Vietnamese settlement and the cradle of wet rice civilization. In 2015, tug-of-war rituals and games in Vietnam, Cambodia, the RoK, and the Philippines were officially recognised by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
