Culture - Sports

(CPV) - The Quang Ninh Department of Information and Communications announced that the Ngoa Van Spring Festival 2016 would open on February 16th (January 9th on lunar calendar).

(CPV) - On January 19th, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism issued Decision 246/QD-BVHTTDL announcing the list of 15 national intangible culture heritages.

(CPV) - Vietnam Television in coordination with TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System) Television from Japan will produce a program titled “Colors of Japan”.

(CPV) - The Management Board of Hanoi Old Quarter said a number of art and culture activities will take place in Hanoi Old Quarter to welcome the 12th National Party Congress and the Binh Than (Year of the Monkey) Lunar New Year.

(CPV) - The Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports in coordination with the Management Board of Hoa Lo prison opened a special exhibition titled “Entire life for the Party” on January 20th.

Top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh on January 20th lost to strong Malaysian rival Goh Soon Huat at the men's singles first-round match of the Malaysia Masters at the Spice Arena in Penang.

(CPV) - On January 19th, the Vietnam Union of Literature and Arts Associations organized the award ceremony for the 2015 Literature and Art Prizes, recognizing 67 outstanding literary and art works.

A photo exhibition themed “Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) - Previous Congresses” opened at the Hai Phong Fine Art Exhibition Center by the Hai Phong Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism on January 18th.

(CPV) - On January 19th, an art program titled “Forever bright belief” took place at the August Revolution Square in No. 1 Trang Tien street to mark the 12th National Party Congress.

(CPV) - A number of sports, art and culture activities will take place to celebrate the 12th National Party Congress’ success.

(CPV) - On the occasion of 100th birth anniversary of Tran Quoc Hoan (23/01/1916), the Public Security Institute of History under the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Public Security has compiled and published the book “A number of images of the revolutionary life and career of comrade Tran Quoc Hoan”.

(CPV) - The Quan Ngua Sports Palace (No. 30 Van Cao street, Ba Dinh district) on January 23rd will host the second festival for Vietnamese stars of dance sports.

More than 100 kids in Ho Chi Minh city on January 16th joined in a painting contest with the theme "Spring on the Sea and Islands" held at the War Remnants Museum at No. 28 Vo Van Tan, district 3.

(CPV) - Australian Ambassador to Vietnam Mr Hugh Borrowman on January 18th handed-over to Hanoi fourteen introductory panels about the Thang Long-Hanoi Imperial Citadel.

The Tet Art Fair 2016, themed “Convergence of quintessence”, will take place for ten days from January 21st to 31st in Hanoi Creative City, Luong Yen, Hanoi.

(CPV) - On January 17th, the Ba Che district People’s Committee organized the “Tra hoa vang” (Camellia Chrysantha) festival.

Ha Long Spring Flower Festival 2016 will take place from January 29th to February 7th at Ha Long Park in Bach Dang ward, Ha Long city.

Vietnam lost to Australia 2-0 in the second match of Group D of the Asian U-23 Football Championship in Qatar on January 17th.

Nineteen-year-old swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien has earned the Victory Cup, the first ever national sport ‘Oscar' award, as voted by fans and sports journalists and experts from around Vietnam.

The Vietnamese short film entitled “Thanh pho khac” (Another City), directed by Pham Ngoc Lan, is among the nominations for the short film category at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.

(CPV) – On January 14th, the Central Comrade Association in coordination with the Vietnam General Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health organized the closing and awarding ceremony of the “Teenage Diseases Prevention” contest.

(12th Congress) – On January 13th, the People’s Army Newspaper in coordination with the State Bank of Vietnam and the Vietnam Television organized a press conference to introduce an art program entitled “Integral Belief and Love to the Party” in Hanoi.

The sixth leg of the Clipper World Yacht Race will begin in Australia on January 18 and finish in the central city of Da Nang on February 17th-21st.

(CPV) - On January 13th, the Party Committee, the People’s Council, the People’s Committee and Fatherland Front Committee of Ha Nam province organized a ceremony to confer and award the “Vietnamese heroic mother” title to mothers in Ly Nhan district.

(CPV) - On January 13th, the Youth Promotion Science and Technology Center under the Ho Chi Minh city Youth Union in coordination with the Vietnam Visibility Target Company Limited (Vina Vista Co., Ltd.) and Da Nang University launched the video-making contest titled “Vietnam in my eyes” 2016 in Da Nang city.

(CPV) - Coach Dang Anh Tuan and his student Nguyen Thi Anh Vien, 20, won the titles best coach and best athlete in 2015, when the final results were announced.

On January 11th, the Vietnamese Embassy in China in coordination with the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Chinese Ministry of Culture organized a photo and painting exhibition week titled “Vietnam - Endless beauty” in Beijing, China.

(CPV) - A painting exhibition entitled “The Color of Hanoi” opened on January 12th to welcome the 12th National Party Congress and the Lunar New Year festival 2016 at Hanoi’s Old Quarter Cultural Exchange Center.

(CPV) - The Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism has directed the Vietnam Cinema Department to coordinate with related units to organize a film screening to welcome the 12th National Party Congress.

(CPV) - The Department of Performing Arts under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, in coordination with the Vietnam Stage Artist Association, will organize the Typical stage festival to welcome 12th National Party Congress from January 12th - 17th in Hanoi.