Culture - Sports

A football tournament for all Vietnamese people across Japan named FAVIJA Olympic Tokyo Cup 2020 was kicked off by a ceremony for the draw held at the headquarters of the Vietnamese Embassy in Tokyo, Japan on February 23rd.

The northern mountainous Tuyen Quang provincial People’s Committee has promulgated a plan to organize culture and sports activities during great festivals in 2020.

On February 23rd, the Google homepage featured Vietnam’s Ca tru illustration to celebrate the establishment of this musical art form.

47 folk paintings by 46 artists from Korean Folk Painting Association are on display at an exhibition titled “Future from the past” which has opened at the Korean Cultural Center in Hanoi.

The ASEAN Para Games in the Philippines have been delayed indefinitely because of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), according to the Vietnam Paralympic Association (VPA).

The Hue Festival 2020 will take place in the central city of Hue from August 28th to September 2nd instead of early April as previously planned due to COVID-19.

Performances by artists from Vietnam Tuong (Classical Drama) Theatre have taken place in Indian in February at three cultural and political events.

The Bac Ninh – Hanoi Culture and Tourism Week which is initially slate from February 28th to March 8th, 2020 in Bac Ninh city and Hanoi capital, will be rescheduled due to complex developments of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

The northern Bac Giang provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has send a document to district-level People’s Committee and Bac Giang provincial Quan Ho Culture Club to stop organizing the 6th Quan Ho Folk Singing Festival in the province in 2020.

In the context of the COVID-19 epidemic, the central province of Thua Thien – Hue has decided to delay the Hue Festival 2020, which is now scheduled to take place from April 1st to 6th.

Drawings, animation, sculptures, costumes and masks by French artist Francois Andes are on display a solo art exhibition titled “The Crossing of Disaster” which has opened at Galerie Quynh in Ho Chi Minh city.

The third Open “Cho Lon” (Big Market) District 5 International Unicorn-Lion-Dragon Dance Festival 2020 will take place in Ho Chi Minh city from April 24th to 26th as part of the local activities to promote tourism.

Photos of Vietnamese people and works on President Ho Chi Minh and the struggle against the US by famous Hungarian sculptor Farkas Aladár are on display at the Culture and Community Activities House in Székesfehérvár city, Hungary from February 16th to early March.

Vietnam’s women’s football team will play powerhouse Australia in a two-leg playoff next month, with a berth in the Tokyo Olympic Games in the summer on the line.

Vietnamese Cultural Days have been held in Saudi Arabia for the first time with many programs to introduce Vietnamese history, land and people as well as Vietnamese cuisine or architecture to international friends.

This year, the Sen Village Festival will be organized from May 15th-19th in localities in Nghe An province with a wide range of activities held nationwide, as part of celebrations of President Ho Chi Minh’s birthday (May 15th).

(CPV) - Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Online Newspaper received the second-class Labour Order, the noble order of the State President, from Vo Van Thuong, Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee (PCC) and Head of the PCC Commission on Popularization and Education, during a ceremony marking its 20th year of operation, held in Hanoi on February 13th.

French pianist Maxime Zecchini will have a tour in Vietnam to play works for the left hand in a piano recital in Ho Chi Minh city on February 23rd, in Hue city on February 26th, in Da Nang city on February 27th and in Hanoi on February 29th.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has issued an instruction on organizing the national “Ambassador of reading culture” contest 2020.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has issued a guiding document supporting the restoration of festivals of ethnic minority groups under the Cultural Development Target Program in 2020.

A documentary film is being aired named “Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh era – television annals” made by Nhan Dan newspaper under the direction of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee’s Secretariat.

The book “Nguyen Ai Quoc – Ho Chi Minh on the way of founding Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)” by Assoc.Prof.Dr. Le Van Yen was introduced on February 6th by the People’s Public Security Publishing House.

The six-volume Czech-Vietnamese encyclopaedia has won the “Dictionary of the Year 2020” award of the Union of Interpreters and Translators (JTP).

A series of monuments and landscapes in Hanoi have sprayed disinfectant to prevent the acute respiratory disease caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (nCoV).

Vietnamese movie tiled “Cha cong con” (Father and Son) directed by Luong Dinh Dung is being screened throughout February at the King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture (Ithra) in Saudi Arabia, which was named among the world’s 100 greatest places by Time magazine in 2018.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has issued a decision on the publication of an additional 11 national intangible cultural heritage.

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thien has issued Notice 396/CĐ- BVHTTDL to send chairmen of people’s committees of provinces and centrally-run cities to request the localities that have declared outbreaks of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) to halt all festivals, including those currently underway, to fight the spread of the acute respiratory disease caused by this virus.

Diverse cultural activities featuring traditional culture, customs and lunar new year celebrations of ethnic groups will take place in February at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism in Son Tay town, Hanoi.

(CPV) - Vietnamese revolution’s turning point” aims to help all classes of people, especially the young generation, have profound and sufficient awareness about the glorious history of the Party, and foster trust as well as pride for the Party, Uncle Ho and the renewal process.

About 10,000 books published in different periods are on display at Hanoi book exhibition which opened at the National Library of Vietnam on February 2nd to celebrate the 90th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (February 3rd).