Culture - Sports

The Ministry of Education and Training has just sent a document to the Departments of Education and Training; universities, academies and pedagogical colleges on the proposal to launch and effectively organize tree planting festival in gratitude to Uncle Ho in 2024.

The Vietnam National Theatre Drama will perform the play Shadow of the Puppets on March 17.

Vietnamese movie "Cu Li khong bao gio khoc" (Cu Li never cries) by director Pham Ngoc Lan won the best first feature prize at the Berlinale Film Festival on February 24.

Vietnamese badminton player Le Duc Phat has won a ticket to the semi-finals of the 2024 Uganda International Challenge taking place in Kampala, Uganda from February 21-25.

The monument "Uncle Ho with Border Guard soldiers" has been inaugurated at the Postgraduate Training System, Border Guard Academy in Son Tay town, the outskirt of Hanoi.

A ceremony in response to the 4th contest entitled "Uncle Ho with children - Children with Uncle Ho" has been held at Hoang Tru Primary School in the central province of Nghe An.

On February 20, at Phu Yen provincial Political School, the central Phu Yen provincial People’s Committee held a ceremony to launch the tree planting festival in gratitude of Uncle Ho in 2024.

The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee will convene its 30th session on February 22, the NA Office has announced.

Three traditional festivals of ethnic groups will be recreated at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism in Hanoi on February 24 and 25 in the framework of the ‘Colour of Spring across the Motherland’s Regions’ program.

On February 17 to 18, visitors to the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology could enjoy a programme to experience the culture of Hoi An City, the central province of Quang Nam.

Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has just issued a plan to implement the project “Building book streets, book spaces and developing reading culture” to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification Day (April 30, 1975 - 2025).

The Nghe An Department of Culture and Sports has opened an additional gallery about Ho Chi Minh Square and organized planting of memorial trees at simulated Chung Mountain in order to better promote the value of Ho Chi Minh Square and Uncle Ho’s Monument in the center of Vinh city.

Vietnam will host at least four chess competitions of the Hanoi International Chess Series in 2024, which will deliver world point rankings for successful masters.

President Vo Van Thuong on February 18 offered incense and attended the Lunar New Year pen-brush opening ceremony at a memorial area dedicated to national hero and world cultural eminent personality Nguyen Trai in Nhi Khe commune in Hanoi’s outlying district of Thuong Tin.

The Vietnamese pavilion at the 32nd Havana International Book Fair has displayed about 100 books and publications about President Ho Chi Minh, the revolutionary cause and renewal process Vietnam as well as its country and people.

From February 7-14 (traditional Tet holiday), Nguyen Hue flower street in Ho Chi Minh City attracted over 1.2 million visitors.

The 1984th anniversary of Hai Ba Trung (Trung Sisters)’s uprising was commemorated in a ceremony in Me Linh district, Hanoi on the sixth day of the first lunar month, which fell on February 15 this year.

A lunar New Year Gala concert 2024 will take place at the Ho Guom Opera House in Hanoi on February 17, the eighth day of first lunar month.

According to Hanoi City Department of Tourism, the capital city has welcomed about 653,000 visitors in seven-day Lunar New Year (Tet) holidays from January 8-14, up 21.6% year on year, including nearly 103,000 foreigners, a rise of 2.2% over the same time last year.

As many of 56,642 visitors, including 29,050 foreigners, paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday from February 9 – 12 (from the 30th of the last lunar month to the third day of the first lunar month).

Four Vietnamese dishes have made the list of "67 Best Chicken Dishes in Asia" compiled by cuisine magazine TasteAtlas.

Cuban experts and doctors at Dong Hoi Vietnam-Cuba friendship hospital in the central province of Quang Binh and international students at Thai Nguyen University in the northern province of the same name have been celebrating the ongoing Lunar New Year Festival (called Tet in Vietnamese) – the longest and biggest traditional festival in Vietnam.

The highly awaited "Hanoi Art Light Festival - Resplendent Thang Long" took place in Hanoi’s Tay Ho district, on the New Year's Eve of the lunar calendar, drawing the audience of thousands.

As the Lunar New Year (Tet) is just around the corner, the Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the United Nations in New York held an event on February 7 to introduce traditional Tet dishes of Vietnam and celebrate the recognition of the Lunar New Year as a UN floating holiday.

As one of the country’s major tourist centers, Hanoi is an attractive tourist destination for tourists during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday. Currently, many entertainment spots introduce interesting activities, promising to attract numerous visitors during the holiday.

(CPV) - Five-fruit trays often displayed during the Vietnamese Lunar New Year (Tet).

Over the years, whether it is rainy or sunny, generations of officers, soldiers and civil servants of the Mausoleum Management Board and Security Command of Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum have always overcome all difficulties, successfully completing the special political tasks assigned by the Party, State, Army and people.

On the occasion of the Lunar New Year 2024, educational institutions in the Vinh Phuc Province organize many activities to help students experience Spring joy.

(CPV ) – Diverse cultural activities will take place in many localities in Vietnam throughout lunar New Year (Tet).

The Tet book street festival 2024 of Ho Chi Minh City kicked off on February 7, expected to be a worth-visiting destination during the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.