Culture - Sports

Beautiful photos of traditional long dress themed "Vuon xua” (Old garden) will be introduced by painter and photographer Nguyen Quoc Dung at No. 29 Hang Bai street, Hanoi November 3rd – 7th.

The 4th Hanoi International Film Festival, co-organised by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; the Hanoi People’s Committee and the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports, kicked off on November 1st.

The ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) announced on October 31st that Vietnam will host one of the two ASEAN futsal championships in 2017.

Culinary specialties of the Mekong Delta region are on offer from October 28th-31st at a food festival in An Hoa Park, Rach Gia city, in the southern province of Kien Giang.

A bilingual book titled “Evidence of China-Vietnam friendship” made its first debut at a ceremony in Hanoi on October 29th.

Ho Chi Minh City is preparing for the Japan Festival to be held in the city from November 18th-20th.

The Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism and the People’s Committee of Yen Bai province on October 26th jointly held a conference to build a national dossier on Xoe dance of Thai ethnic people to submit for UNESCO recognition as an intangible heritage of humanity.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has sent a document to Departments of Culture, Sports and Tourism in provinces and cities requesting cooperation in organizing cultural festivals in 2017.

The bilingual play “That summer” in Vietnamese and Korean languages will be performed at the Youth Theatre at No.11 Ngo Thi Nham street in Hanoi on October 28th and 29th.

Vietnamese students at the Seoul National University of Science and Technology (Seoultech) on October 23rd organized a friendly football tournament "Seoultech International Cup" in Seoul, capital of the Republic of Korea (RoK).

If the people in Hanoi want to experience the diversity of Europe’s languages and cultures, they can learn greeting and etiquette sentences in the six languages of English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Polish, free of charge.

An exhibition of valuable documents confirming that Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos belong to Vietnam will take place in the northern province of Ha Nam from November 4th to 8th.

Hanoi City Department of Culture and Sports has held a ceremony to review and award the contest on heritage as an activity in the framework of the programme on experiencing Vietnamese intangible cultural heritage 2016.

Many interesting books will be introduced at the Autumn book festival 2016 from October 26th to 30th at Vietnamese Women’s Museum at 36 Ly Thuong Kiet street, Hanoi.

As many of 100 photos featuring Vietnam’s landscapes, daily life and culture are on display at an exhibition which opened in the central province of Binh Thuan’s Phan Thiet city on October 23rd.

Le Nguyen Quoc Bao bagged two gold medals at the ongoing International Weightlifting Federation Youth World Championship in Malaysia.

Vietnam grabbed two gold, one silver and two bronze medals at the King’s Cup Sepak Takraw (kick volleyball, a sport native to South East Asia region) World Championship in Thailand.

Vietnam has jumped to the No.2 position in the Southeast Asian region as per FIFA’s October ranking, which was released on October 20th.

No 5 seed Ly Hoang Nam advanced to the quarter-finals of the Vietnam Men’s Futures F7 tennis tournament in Binh Duong province on October 19th.

Nearly 200 photos and objects on female National Assembly (NA) deputies are on display at an exhibition which opened in Ho Chi Minh city on October 18th.

According to Hanoi city Department of Culture and Sports, Hanoi Ca tru festival 2016 will take place at the Temple of Literature from November 11th to 13th.

As many of 120 documentary photographs and paintings on President Ho Chi Minh and Cam Ranh city are on display at an exhibition which has opened in Cam Ranh city.

Quang Ninh provincial People’s Committee has held a conference to honour outstanding prestige people in ethnic minority groups in the province.

Hung Yen provincial People’s Committee has approved a project on restoring 100 province and state-level relics in the 2016-2020 period with an investment of VND48 billion.

Vietnam Television (VTV) and the Permanent Steering Committee for the Central Highlands have launched the national TV channel for the Central Highlands VTV5 in Buon Ma Thuot city, Dak Lak province.

Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hoa will be the first and only Vietnamese athlete to compete at the upcoming World Women’s Club Volleyball Championship in the Philippines.

The 2016 Hanoi Ao dai (traditional long dress) Festival opened at the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long–Hanoi on the evening of October 14th in the presence of National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.

Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hoa will be the first and only Vietnamese athlete to compete at the upcoming World Women’s Club Volleyball Championship in the Philippines.

(CPV) - The final match of Viettel World Cup 2016 between MyTel from Myanmar and Viettel Hanoi from Vietnam ended on October 15th at Viettel Sports Center, Thach That district on the outskirts of Hanoi.

Vietnam has no athletes left at the ongoing Vietnam Open tennis tournament in HCM city.