Culture - Sports

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the High Command of Border Guard have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on strengthening and improving the effectiveness of culture, sports and tourism and family-based activities in border areas and islands in the 2017-2022 period.

The Prime Minister has issued a decision to recognize an additional ten special national relic sites (the 8th phase).

Vietnam’s national women’s football team has been invited to play in an international four-side friendly competition in Guangzhou, China, on January 19th-23rd.

An exhibition on Hanoi 2017 will open at Ho Guom Culture Information Centre at No.2 Le Thai To street, Hoan Kiem district, as part of a series of cultural activities to welcome New Year 2018 at Hoan Kiem lake pedestrian area.

The central Thua Thien - Hue provincial People’s Committee has approved seven additional Hue garden houses to participate in the project on policies to support the protection and promotion of these specific values.

(CPV) - At No.49 Nguyen Du street (Hanoi) from December 26th, 2017 to January 6th, 2018, some 30 masterpieces of four Vietnamese artists are being displayed at an exhibition titled “This is the Life”.

Audiences are having an opportunity to enjoy free Vietnamese film screenings at the National Cinema Centre in Hanoi from December 25th to 29th.

(CPV) - 2018 will be a very bustling year for Vietnam’s football; one of spotlights is the Congress of the local governing body - VFF (term VIII).

Nearly 200 photos on the beauty of the Central Highlands and coastal central Vietnam are on display at an exhibition which opened in Da Lat city, Lam Dong province on December 24th.

According to the Hoi An city People’s Committee, the event “Welcome New Year 2018” will take place at An Hoi statue garden from December 24th, 2017 to January 2nd, 2018 with diverse interesting activities.

Chairman of Ho Chi Minh city People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong has accepted the proposal of Saigontourist Company on a low-range fireworks display on New Year’s Eve 2018.

Studying and following Uncle Ho’s teachings in the Party Committee of Minh Thanh commune in Son Duong district, Tuyen Quang province, has become a deep and wide emulation movement, creating positive changes in awareness and actions of officials, Party members and people.

Sanna Khanh Hoa lost to Muangthong United of Thailand 1-3 in the first leg of the Toyota Mekong Club Championship finals held at the Hang Day stadium.

Traditional festivals, rituals and religions of the Vietnamese are introduced in a book compiled by late Prof Nguyen Van Huyen (1908-1975), as a French-educated scholar and Minister of Education of Vietnam (1946-1975).

Villagers in Tham Phang village in Muong Ang district of Dien Bien province are celebrating Tet during one of the coldest winters in the region.

Vietnam’s U23 team was defeated 2-3 by the RoK's Ulsan Hyundai FC in a friendly match at the Hanoi’s Hang Day Stadium on December 21st.

A street introducing tea, coffee, wine and specialties of Da Lat city, the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong opened on December 22nd.

(CPV) - In the Southeast Asia region, the nation on December 21st ranks 112th place in the latest Football Federation (FIFA) men’s world rankings, bypassing Thailand.

(CPV) - The Republic of Korea’s head coach of Vietnam, Park Hang Seo, strongly believed that his students will gain professional skills after the U23 Vietnam-Ulsan Hyundai match on December 21st in Hanoi’s Hang Day stadium.

Hue Festival 2018 will take place in Hue city, the central province of Thua Thien - Hue, from April 27th to May 2nd with the participation of 20 international artistic troupes.

The Vietnam Military History Museum on December 18th coordinated with the Police Museum under the Ministry of Public Security to open an exhibition on Dien Bien Phu in the air victory.

Nearly 300 photos and more than 100 documents on Vietnam - Cambodia relations are on display at an exhibition which opened in Phnom Penh on December 18th.

Ulsan Hyundai FC, who won the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s FA Cup earlier this month, will send a squad of 18 to Vietnam for a friendly match with U23 Vietnam on December 21st in Hanoi.

Vietnam brought home three golds, five silvers and two bronzes from the Asian Youth Para Games 2017, which took place in Dubai from December 7th to 14th.

The Korean Day program kicked off the in central coastal province of Quang Nam on December 15th.

Nearly 150 photos on Vietnam’s sea and islands are on display at an exhibition which opened in Hanoi on December 14th.

The 5,000-seat multi-purpose gymnasium, part of the northeastern regional sports centre, was inaugurated in May, 2016 in Ha Long city, the northern province of Quang Ninh, on an area of nearly 150,000 square metres.

Le Quang Liem of Vietnam could only improve his standing to No 7, in the second leg of the blitz chess at the International Mind Sports Association Elite Games.

Vietnam ranked third overall at the 16th Asian Finswimming Championship which closed in China on December 12th.

Vietnam’s U19 team drew 1-1 with Myanmar in the first match of the Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper’s International U21 Football Tournament in Can Tho on December 12th.