Culture - Sports

Authorities of Ho Chi Minh City has decided to increase the number of venues hosting fireworks displays on the upcoming Lunar New Year's Eve to 11, an increase from last year's eight.

The organizing board of the eighth National Press Awards on Party Building has selected the best 72 works to honour at the awarding ceremony in Hanoi on February 1.

6,000 book titles will be showcased at the 2024 New Year Book Street Festival at Le Loi street of Ho Chi Minh City from February 7-14.

Diverse activities such as art performances and folk games will be held at annual Tet celebrations at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi will take place from February 2 to 18.

According to VOV, a statue of Maitreya Buddha weighing 5,112 metric tonnes, the largest of its kind in the world, has been officially placed on top of Ba Den Mountain, a famous travel destination in the south-western province of Tay Ninh.

Organisations and enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City joined hands to support needy people on the occasion of the Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival.

More than 300 valuable archival documents and images of significant exhibitions and fairs held at the Grand Palais, an exhibition and trade fair complex in Hanoi built for the 1902 Hanoi world trade fair, are on display at an exhibition which has opened in Hanoi.

The annual Phu My Hung Spring Flower Festival 2024 will take place at the Crescent Lake area in Phu My Hung New City Centre in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, from February 3 - February 13 (from the 24th day of the Lunar December to the 4th day of the Lunar New Year).

Xaysomboun Provincial Radio and Television Station is a work using non-refundable aid from the Government of Vietnam to Laos, implemented by VOV as the project owner.

On January 29, during the visit to central Quang Nam province on the occasion of traditional lunar New Year, Vice State President Vo Thi Anh Xuan presented 400 Tet gifts to policy beneficiary families, impoverished households, and disadvantaged workers, 200 million VND (over 8,100 USD) in support for children with difficulties, and 500 million VND to assist house building for the needy.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the Government's session on law-building on January 29 to discuss three draft laws and two law proposals.

A French-style villa whose one side is at 49 Tran Hung Dao Street and the other at 46 Hang Bai Street, Hoan Kiem district. Hanoi, started to be opened to visitors on January 26 after renovation

Diverse activities imbued with traditional Tet will take place at Hanoi’s Old Quarter around Hoan Kiem lake from January 28 and end after Tet Festival. Many activities will be held during the Lunar New Year to serve the demands of people and tourists.

A culture and sport exchange programme between students of the northwestern mountainous province of Dien Bien and six northern Lao provinces, namely Luang Prabang, Phongsaly, Luang Namtha, Bo Keo, Xaynhabuly, and Udom Xay, kicked off in Dien Bien on Jannaury 27.

Fireworks will be displayed at eight locations on lunar New Year’s Eve in Ho Chi Minh City, an increase of two venues compared to the similar occasion last year.

On January 24, an Indian Punjabi folk dance cultural exchange programme took place in the southern province of Ben Tre to popularize the Indian folk dance to more Vietnamese audiences and consolidate the solidarity, friendship and mutual understanding between the two sides.

The 17th Vietnamese Tet Festival is taking in Ho Chi Minh City from January 24 to February 14 to promote traditional cultural values of Vietnam.

38 Japan’s wood-engraved fine art works on Vietnamese culture are on display at an exhibition which opened at the Temple of Literature in Hanoi on January 23.

Nine paintings of Vietnamese children have been selected to compete in the Toyota Dream Car Art Contest which is scheduled to take place in Japan in February.

20 sets of folk paintings selected from the collections of folk paintings at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum are on display at an exhibition entitled “Spring colours through folk paintings” which opened in Ha Long City, in the northern province of Quang Ninh, on January 23.

The Ban Flower Festival, a highlight of the National Tourism Year 2024, will take place in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien from March 13 to 18.

Vietnam Golf Festival 2024 will take place in Da Lat, the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong from May 24 to 26 as part of activities to celebrate the 78th anniversary of the Vietnam Sports Day (March, 27, 1946 – 2024).

An art exchange programme has taken place in the southern province of Binh Dinh as part of activities to celebrate the 52nd anniversary of Vietnam-India diplomatic ties and the 74th anniversary of India’s Republic Day (January 26, 1950 – 2024).

The S20 Vietnam Songkran Music Festival, one of Asia’s biggest music festivals, will take place in Ho Chi Minh City from May 11 to May 12.

A majestic light and sound performance supported by 2,024 unmanned aerial vehicles in the sky on Lunar New Year's Eve will take place between 11:00 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. on February 9 night ahead of a spectacular fireworks display let off in 32 venues throughout Hanoi. It will be live broadcast via media platforms.

The floating flower fair will open at Binh Dong Wharf in District 8, Ho Chi Minh City, from January 25 to February 9 (or the 15th day – 30th day of the last lunar month) as one of the city’s most-visited attractions in Tet (Lunar New Year).

On January 18, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha signed a decision to recognize an additional 29 artifacts as national treasures.

(CPV) - Pho is a traditional dish and the pride of Vietnamese cuisine, continuously topping lists of the world’s most delicious dishes. Pho gradually has its own position after Vietnamese people’s tireless journey to bring their homeland’s cuisine to the world.

A Vietnamese 'ao dai' (traditional long dress) fashion week kicked off in Fukuoka prefecture on January 18 as part of the Homeland Spring Festival 2024 of the Vietnamese community in the Kyushu region of Japan.

On January 25, "Spring on Truong Sa" 2024 exchange programme took place in Hanoi to express gratitude for the great contributions of officials and soldiers of the Vietnam People's Navy in the cause of protecting the sacred sovereignty of the sea and islands of the Fatherland.