Culture - Sports

(CPV) - Vietnam finished third in the 1st Asian Boules Sport Championships 2017 took place at Bangkok’s Thonburi University (Thailand) from December 8th-12th, pocketing home two silvers and two bronzes.

In recent years, Hanoi Youth Union gradually renovated the content and method of education, and positively promoted self-discipline, self-education and self-training among youth.

(CPV) - The German Embassy and the Goethe-Institut Hanoi will co-organize the first German style Christmas market in Hanoi from December 14th-16th at Cua Bac Church.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has assigned the Hanoi city People’s Committee to coordinate with the Management Board of President Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum and relevant agencies to open tours to connect the Mausoleum with other relic sites.

(CPV) - Marksmen Tran Quoc Cuong, Hoang Xuan Vinh and Nguyen Dinh Thanh on December 10th won a bronze medal in the men’s team 10m air pistol event at the 10th Asian air gun Championship in Wako-Saitama (Japan) with 1,728 points.

The central province of Thua Thien - Hue has decided to allocate VND32.6 billion (USD1.44 million) to preserve and develop garden houses in 2017-2020, heard a conference to review two years of the province’s resolution on garden houses protection.

More than 100 black and white and colour photos by Vietnamese reporters on Vietnam-Laos relations are on display at an exhibition which opened in Vientiane on December 6th.

National football champions of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand will compete in the Toyota Mekong Clubs Championship, scheduled for December 9th, 2017 to January 6th, 2018 in the four countries.

(CPV) - The Hoang Anh Gia Lai team tasted victory for the first time after crushing Viettel FC 3-0 in the final game of the U21 national football tournament on December 7th in Binh Duong province.

Sapa Winter Festival 2017 will take place from December 22nd to 31st to respond activities of Vietnam National Tourism Year: Lao Cai - Northwestern Region.

The State Records Management and Archives Department of Vietnam on December 7th coordinated with the Archives Department of France to open an exhibition on French cultural imprints through archives.

Xoan singing, a folk music genre in Vietnam’s northern midland province of Phu Tho, has been removed from UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding and added to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

The 2nd yellow flower tea festival will be organized on January 5th - 7th, 2018 in Ba Che district, Quang Ninh province.

Chu Puh district has opened a training course on gongs for young people, contributing to raising awareness of preserving and promoting culture and arts values and national identities.

On December 5th, in Hanoi, the State Records Management and Archives Department of Vietnam coordinated with the Archives Department of France and French Embassy in Vietnam to organize a seminar on 100 years of Vietnam-France heritage.

Traditional foods are being introduced at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism from December 1st, 2017 to January 2nd, 2018.

(CPV) - Head coach of the U23 national football team Park Hang Seo on December 6th finalized 27 names for the M-150 Cup 2017 which will be held in Thailand from December 9th-17th.

Vietnamese lifter Le Van Cong on December 4th made a new world’s record in the men’s 49kg at the ongoing World Para Weightlifting Championships 2017 in Mexico city.

The Ho Chi Minh (HCM) city - Gyeongju World Culture Festival 2017 has attracted four million visitors after 23 days.

A singing exchange on border river between the youth of the Vietnam's northern province of Quang Ninh and China's Guangxi province has taken place in Mong Cai city.

A cultural exchange to mark the 42nd anniversary of Laos’ National Day (December 2nd) has taken place at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam in Hanoi.

(CPV) - Vietnamese poet Mai Van Phan was presented Swedish literary Cikada prize 2017 in a ceremony held by the Swedish Embassy in Hanoi in the evening of December 1st.

(CPV) - Deadly penalties in the semi-final games have helped the two clubs enter the final.

(CPV) - With 5-1 win over Becamex Binh Duong on November 30th at the home ground in the second leg, Song Lam Nghe An football club won Vietnam National Cup 2017 with the 7-2 aggregate.

(CPV) - The 23-year-old Vietnamese triumphed in the men’s 56kg category in all three events of snatch, clean and jerk and total.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on November 30th held a ceremony to open an exhibition on outstanding artistic works created in 2015 and 2016 at Hanoi Opera House.

Korean Day in Quang Nam province will take place on December 15th and 16th, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Vietnam - the Republic of Korea (RoK) diplomatic ties (December 22nd) and the ASEAN - RoK Cultural Exchange Year 2017.

The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum Management Board has announced that the daily tribute ceremony to President Ho Chi Minh and heroic martyrs will be continued from this December 5th,after the completion of annual maintenance.

The film Em Chua 18 (Jailbait), directed by Le Thanh Son, won the Golden Lotus prize for best feature film at the 20th Vietnamese Film Festival in central Da Nang city on November 28th.

An annual festival to honour the buckwheat flowers, the most iconic flowers of the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang, and the unique cultural values of the province’s local ethnic people is taking place in Dong Van district.