Culture - Sports

The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee will convene its 30th session on February 22, the NA Office has announced.

Three traditional festivals of ethnic groups will be recreated at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism in Hanoi on February 24 and 25 in the framework of the ‘Colour of Spring across the Motherland’s Regions’ program.

On February 17 to 18, visitors to the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology could enjoy a programme to experience the culture of Hoi An City, the central province of Quang Nam.

Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has just issued a plan to implement the project “Building book streets, book spaces and developing reading culture” to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification Day (April 30, 1975 - 2025).

The Nghe An Department of Culture and Sports has opened an additional gallery about Ho Chi Minh Square and organized planting of memorial trees at simulated Chung Mountain in order to better promote the value of Ho Chi Minh Square and Uncle Ho’s Monument in the center of Vinh city.

Vietnam will host at least four chess competitions of the Hanoi International Chess Series in 2024, which will deliver world point rankings for successful masters.

President Vo Van Thuong on February 18 offered incense and attended the Lunar New Year pen-brush opening ceremony at a memorial area dedicated to national hero and world cultural eminent personality Nguyen Trai in Nhi Khe commune in Hanoi’s outlying district of Thuong Tin.

The Vietnamese pavilion at the 32nd Havana International Book Fair has displayed about 100 books and publications about President Ho Chi Minh, the revolutionary cause and renewal process Vietnam as well as its country and people.

From February 7-14 (traditional Tet holiday), Nguyen Hue flower street in Ho Chi Minh City attracted over 1.2 million visitors.

The 1984th anniversary of Hai Ba Trung (Trung Sisters)’s uprising was commemorated in a ceremony in Me Linh district, Hanoi on the sixth day of the first lunar month, which fell on February 15 this year.

A lunar New Year Gala concert 2024 will take place at the Ho Guom Opera House in Hanoi on February 17, the eighth day of first lunar month.

According to Hanoi City Department of Tourism, the capital city has welcomed about 653,000 visitors in seven-day Lunar New Year (Tet) holidays from January 8-14, up 21.6% year on year, including nearly 103,000 foreigners, a rise of 2.2% over the same time last year.

As many of 56,642 visitors, including 29,050 foreigners, paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday from February 9 – 12 (from the 30th of the last lunar month to the third day of the first lunar month).

Four Vietnamese dishes have made the list of "67 Best Chicken Dishes in Asia" compiled by cuisine magazine TasteAtlas.

Cuban experts and doctors at Dong Hoi Vietnam-Cuba friendship hospital in the central province of Quang Binh and international students at Thai Nguyen University in the northern province of the same name have been celebrating the ongoing Lunar New Year Festival (called Tet in Vietnamese) – the longest and biggest traditional festival in Vietnam.

The highly awaited "Hanoi Art Light Festival - Resplendent Thang Long" took place in Hanoi’s Tay Ho district, on the New Year's Eve of the lunar calendar, drawing the audience of thousands.

As the Lunar New Year (Tet) is just around the corner, the Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the United Nations in New York held an event on February 7 to introduce traditional Tet dishes of Vietnam and celebrate the recognition of the Lunar New Year as a UN floating holiday.

As one of the country’s major tourist centers, Hanoi is an attractive tourist destination for tourists during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday. Currently, many entertainment spots introduce interesting activities, promising to attract numerous visitors during the holiday.

(CPV) - Five-fruit trays often displayed during the Vietnamese Lunar New Year (Tet).

Over the years, whether it is rainy or sunny, generations of officers, soldiers and civil servants of the Mausoleum Management Board and Security Command of Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum have always overcome all difficulties, successfully completing the special political tasks assigned by the Party, State, Army and people.

On the occasion of the Lunar New Year 2024, educational institutions in the Vinh Phuc Province organize many activities to help students experience Spring joy.

(CPV ) – Diverse cultural activities will take place in many localities in Vietnam throughout lunar New Year (Tet).

The Tet book street festival 2024 of Ho Chi Minh City kicked off on February 7, expected to be a worth-visiting destination during the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

Diverse activities will be held during Spring Book Street programme throughout lunar New Year (Tet), from February 5 to February 14.

Two works being restored inside the Hue Imperial Palace, Thai Hoa Palace and Kien Trung Palace, will be open to visitors during the upcoming lunar New Year (Tet holidays).

On February 4 (the 25th day of the 12th lunar month), the “Tren ben duoi thuyen” (On the Wharf – In the Boat) flower floating fair, one of the most-visited attractions in Ho Chi Minh City during Tet Festival, opened at Binh Dong Wharf, District 8.

According to the Hue Monuments Conservation Center, the Complex of Hue monuments, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site, will open to the public with free admission from February 10 to 12 (from the first day to the third day of the lunar New Year.

On February 2, authorities of the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long has held a ceremony to receive the certificate of Vietkings and to inaugurate the longest road of ceramic products decorated with flowers in the province.

Nearly 100 tourists from many countries such as Australia, Finland and Republic of Korea (RoK) have experienced wearing traditional costumes of Vietnamese ethnic groups and hand-wrapped banh chung at the Chung cake wrapping festival on February 3 at The Cliff Resort and Residences in Phan Thiet City in the southern province of Binh Thuan.

The 23rd Windsurf Mui Ne Fun Cup 2024 kicked off on February 2 at Mui Ne beach in Phan Thiet city in the south-central province of Binh Thuan.