Culture - Sports

It has been missing from the last three Southeast Asian Games, but come November, chess will be checking in.

In the culture of the Ta Oi ethnic minorigy group in A Luoi district, the central province of Thua Thien Hue, Zeng plate (brocade) is considered a measure of many values in life.

The National Food Festival 2019 is taking place in Nha Trang City, the central province of Khanh Hoa from October 18th to 21st, featuring 60 stalls from different cities and provinces across Vietnam.

The European Day of Languages 2019 will take place from 13h00 to 17h00 on October 19th at the Goethe-Institut Hanoi at 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc street, Ba Dinh district.

Six Danish movies will be screened during the Danish Film Week 2019 in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from October 26th to 31st.

The second Thai ethnic culture festival will take place in the northwestern mountainous province of Dien Bien from October 18th to 20th.

Nine countries will participate in the International Circus Festival 2019, including Australia, Cambodia, China, Cuba, Egypt, Hungary, Laos, Singapore and Vietnam.

Vietnamese movie “Rom” on October 12th won the “New Current” prize at the 24th International Busan Film Festival (BIFF) which is being held in the Republic of Korea.

Vietnam secured their first victory at the World Cup 2022’s second qualifying round in the match against Malaysia at the My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi on October 10th.

The Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists (VAPA) on October 8th presented 73 awards to the best photos at the 10th International Artistic Photo Contest in Vietnam in 2019 (VN-19), 26 of which going to Vietnamese photographers.

“Vietnamese Cuisine Day in France” will take place on October 17th-18th in Perpignan, a city on the Mediterranean coast, southern France.

A record number of Vietnamese athletes will compete at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in the Philippines later this year, and they are all gunning for glory.

Nguyen Thi Thuy Linh of Vietnam was knocked out of the women’s singles semi-finals at the Yuzu Indonesia Masters badminton tournament on October 5th in Malang city.

The Vietnam silk and brocade exhibition is underway at the headquarters of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva from September 30th – October 9th within the framework of the 59th session of the WIPO General Assembly.

(CPV) - The Spanish Embassy in Hanoi, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vietnam, is pleased to present the concert “The magic of the Spanish guitar” (La magia de la guitarra española), performed by the Spanish guitar master Rafael Serrallet.

The Culture, Sports and Tourism Festival of the Khmer ethnic minority in the southern province of Kien Giang will take place in Go Quao district, the southern province of Kien Giang, from November 8th to 12th.

Performances of intangible folk culture and an exhibition on Hanoi’s famous traditional handicrafts will take place during the first ever folk festival at Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem lake pedestrian area from November 15th to 17th.

The inauguration ceremony of the Hanoi flag tower at Ca Mau cape is scheduled to take place in the framework of Ca Mau Cape Tourism and Culture Week from December 10th to 15th in Ca Mau city and Ngoc Hien district, Ca Mau province.

A cultural and artistic exchange of ethnic minority groups took place at Ly Thai To flower gardern near Hoan Kiem Lake on October 2nd to welcome the third Congress of Ethnic Minorities in Hanoi.

The programme entitled “Memory of Hanoi – 65 years” will take place at the mural space of Phung Hung street from October 3rd to 11th together with other activities at relics sites in Hanoi’s old quarter.

Mu Cang Chai district in the northwestern mountainous province of Yen Bai has 700 hectares of terraced fields, of which more than 47% are concentrated in three communes, including La Pan Tan, Che Cu Nha and De Su Phinh.

Along with Cai Rang floating market, Ninh Kieu wharf and Bang Lang stork garden, Tay Do land is also famous for Binh Thuy ancient house on Bui Huu Nghia street, the southern city of Can Tho.

Diverse activities to introduce culture and customs of ethnic minority groups will take place at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism from October 1st to 31st.

Diverse activities related to Muong ethnic culture will be held at Hoa Binh Culture and Tourism Week 2019 in early November.

350 professional and amateur painters from 20 countries worldwide will come to Hanoi to attend "Asia Link Sketchwalk Hanoi 2019" from October 3rd to 6th.

An arts programme has been performed by ethnic people from the Central Highlands and other regions in Vietnam who are living at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism.

The preliminary rounds of the Miss Capital ASEAN 2020 beauty pageant are scheduled to take place in 10 ASEAN nations from November 15th, 2019 to February 15th, 2020.

In the Northwestern cultural space, traditional costumes are a cultural symbol that vividly reflects the customs, practices, beauty and identity of each ethnic group.

An exhibition of historical and legal evidence demonstrating Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos in the East Sea will take place at high schools in the central city of Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa province, from October 29th to 31st.

Vietnam has two works listed among the top 50 most impressive photos depicting portraits of women, which were announced by #Women2019 Photo Contest organized by AGORA Images, a free-to-use photography app.