Culture - Sports

The northern mountainous Yen Bai provincial People's Committee has issued a plan to preserve and promote the value of Mu Cang Chai terraced fields, in association with tourism development in the 2020 - 2025 period and orientations to 2030.

Close to 100 reporters in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City will vote online for the 15th edition of the Devotion Music Awards run by Vietnam News Agency’s Sport & Culture newspaper, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the organising board said on March 19th.

Culture and arts activities to welcome congresses of party committees at all levels and the 13th National Party Congress will be organized according to three phases.

(CPV) - The Party Central Committee’s Commission of Popularization and Education has issued a document on organizing culture and arts activities to welcome congresses of party committees at all levels and the 13th National Party Congress.

The Japan Foundation Centre for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam has coordinated with the Inoue Yasushi Memorial Foundation to launch the fourth edition of Inoue Yasushi Awards to honour theses on Japanese literature.

The Japanese cherry blossom festival – Hanoi 2020 will be cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has assigned the Department of Grassroots Culture to publish DVDs and posters on ASEAN Chairmanship Year 2020.

Historical sites and landscapes in the central province of Quang Tri have temporarily stopped welcoming visitors from March 18th.

The Vietnam Ancestral Global Day will be celebrated online due to the complicated developments of the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19).

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has issued Decision 825/QĐ-BVHTTDL allowing the Management Board of Hanoi Relics Site to coordinate with the Institute of Archaeology to conduct archaeological excavation at Vuon Chuoi archaeological site in Kim Chung commune, Hoai Duc district, Hanoi.

According to the Department of Grassroots Culture under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, 103 posters by 23 artists have been sent to the competition on creating posters on COVID-19 prevention and control.

(CPV) - A contest on 90 years of the popularization and education sector will be launched at http://vcnet.vn from March 23rd to July 13th.

The delegation of the Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee and Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Hanoi, led by Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Vuong Dinh Hue, member of the Politburo and Head of the National Assembly deputy delegation of the city, laid a wreath to pay tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum on March 16th.

The National Political Publishing House has made public a book “The Tale of Thang Long Citadel - Hanoi” to celebrate the 1,010th anniversary of Thang Long - Hanoi.

A video clip by two young people is helping members of the Mong ethnic minority learn about COVID-19, providing accurate and useful information to prevent the spread of the virus.

Head of the Management Board of Huong Son Scenic Area Nguyen Ba Hien said the area has coordinated with Huong Son communal People’s Committee to temporarily stop welcoming visitors from March 15th to 31st, due to COVID-19.

The Hue city Radio Station, Hue city Cultural Museum and Hue city Center of Culture and Sports have merged under the Hue city Center of Culture, Information and Sports.

Xam Ha Thanh (Hanoi buskers’ singing group) has recently published various videos of traditional xam singing.

The Formula One VinFast Vietnam Grand Prix 2020 will be put on hold due to the complicated developments of the COVID-19 outbreak, announced organisers.

The Department of Grassroots Culture under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism recently announced it had invited over 20 painters to draw posters portraying COVID-19 prevention and control.

The provincial Dak Lak Museum held a ceremony receiving artefacts and opening an exhibition to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the victory of Buon Ma Thuot city.

The Organizing Board of the 2020 Cong hien (Devotion) Music Awards on March 12th announced that the voting and awards ceremony will be cancelled due to complicated development of the COVID-19 outbreak.

As many as 100 traditional lacquer paintings are on display at an exhibition which has opened in Hanoi.

As many of 200 photos on Hanoi are on display an exhibition which opened at the Hanoi Museum on March 12th to celebrate the 90th founding anniversary of the city’s Party organisation (March 17th).

Miss Vietnam 2020, a biennial national beauty pageant, will not begin in May as scheduled due to new developments of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Some 600 women have participated in the online photo contest on Ao dai titled “ Pride of Vietnam Ao Dai” organized by the southern Dong Nai provincial Women's Union.

Over the past time, Tuyen Quang provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has consulted the provincial Party Committee, People's Committee and People's Council to issue mechanisms and policies to promote the development of culture, sports and tourism.

The central Thua Thien Hue provincial People's Committee has agreed to provide a budget of about VND10 billion to implement the project of preserving the ancient houses and urban design project of Bao Vinh ancient quarter.

The Central Highlands province of Gia Lai will conduct investigation on gongs culture and gongs cultural spaces in all its localities from March to September 2020.

The northern province of Bac Ninh has completed a dossier seeking UNESCO’s inclusion of the making of Dong Ho folk paintings in the list of intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent safeguarding.