Culture - Sports

(CPV) - The National Shooting Championship 2016 just ended at Hanoi-based national sports training center, after seven days of competition in 18 event categories.

(CPV) - On the evening of March 26th, a music program to mark the 21st founding anniversary of the music band “Buc Tuong” (The Wall) took place at the Au Co Theatre, No.8 Huynh Thuc Khang, Hanoi.

The second annual international language and cultural festival in Cambodia on March 23rd has drawn the participation of students from 32 countries who are studying at Zaman International School in Cambodia.

The renowned play Hamlet of great poet William Shakespeare was performed by Vietnamese artists from the Vietnam National Drama Theatre in Singapore.

(CPV) - The first ever national youth sailing squad was inaugurated in the central city of Da Nang on March 26th, under the leadership of coach Tong Huu Dung, with two coaches and eight players.

(CPV) - Two Vietnamese fencers from Hanoi, Vu Thanh An (24) and Nguyen Thi Le Dung (31), have both collected three points in their race for the 2016 Olympics by competing at Korean Grand Prix.

The XQ Vietnam Embroidery Company officially launched an Artistic Street along Yersin Road in Da Lat, Lam Dong province on March 25th, making it a new destination for tourists on their journey to explore the Da Lat flower land.

(CPV) - The Vietnam national football team left for Iran on March 25th for the last game against Iraq in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier, said VFF.

Kong: Before leaving Vietnam, representatives of Skull Island film crew came back to Quang Binh province on March 25th to check whether the logistics companies treated the natural environment well as they committed.

Local sportswear manufacturer Dong Luc Group and Vietnam Professional Football Company (VPF), the manager of the national football championship (V-League), signed an agreement on ball provision for the football tournaments in 2016-2017.

The central city of Da Nang is gearing up for the fifth Asian Beach Games (ABG 5) scheduled for September 24th-October 3rd, according to the municipal Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

11 outstanding artisans who often practice and teach Quan ho folk singing in their localities have been honoured at the 4th Bac Giang Quan ho folklore singing festival.

A festival featuring the traditional culture of the Co Tu ethnic community in the central city of Da Nang and the central province of Quang Nam will take place in Da Nang city on March 29th for the first time.

(CPV) - The 2016 national swimming-diving 25m championship took place at the Hue city water sports center, Thua Thien-Hue province from March 18th-23rd.

(CPV) - On its second year in Vietnam, “Kids Read”, the award-winning reading program aimed at school children developed by the British Council and funded by HSBC was launched in Hanoi on March 25th.

Two goals each by Van Toan and Cong Vinh helped Vietnam beat Taiwan in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier in Hanoi on March 24th and retain hope of going through to the next round.

On March 23rd, a photo contest on the beauty of daily life among students was launched in Hanoi.

On March 23rd, an exchange about President Ho Chi Minh and sports took place at Ho Chi Minh Museum in Hanoi to mark 70 years of the sports sector (March 27th) and 25 years of Vietnam Sports Day.

Vietnamese athletes will head to the next rounds of the SKYCITY New Zealand Open badminton tournament in Auckland city.

Nearly 300,000 titles with 30 million copies are on display at the 9th Ho Chi Minh city book fair 2016, which opened on March 21st.

The Prime Minister has agreed to assign the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, on behalf of the Government, to submit Xoan singing to UNESCO to seek its recognition as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

According to the Management Board of Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism, activities under the theme “March - The honey hunting season of bees - Central Highlands” will take place in the village from March 25th to 27th.

The second national Mong ethnic cultural day will take place in Dong Van district, the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang in October 2016, with the participation of Mong people from 17 provinces nationwide.

The half lion-half mermaid figure is a well-known symbol of Singapore, known as the Merlion.

The Organizing Board of the third Kon Tum Culture - Tourism Week has presented “outstanding artisan” title in the field of intangible cultural heritage to 47 artisans in Gia Lai and Dak Nong provinces.

As many of 42 artistic troupes from Vietnam and foreign countries, including more than 20 international artistic troupes, have registered to perform at the 2016 Hue Festival.

With the theme "Integration - Cooperation and Development, over four days from March 18th-21st, the 2016 Ha Long Cherry Blossom and Yen Tu Yellow Apricot Flower Festival attracted 70,000 visitors.

Vietnamese film director Nguyen Hoang Diep was invited to be judge at the 30th Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF) which took place from March 11th - 19th in Fribourg.

The 2016 Dong Trieu football tournament - 4th Ha Lan Cup ended on March 20th at the Ha Lan Joint Stock Company stadium, Mao Khe ward, Dong Trieu town.

Various Japanese bands and artists will perform in the Cherry Blossom Festival this weekend to celebrate the mutual understanding and friendship between the two countries.