Culture - Sports

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has recommended localities not to organize firework display during lunar New Year 2022 holiday for COVID-19 prevention and control.

Many major festivals in Hanoi such as the Dong Da Hill Festival, Huong Pagoda, Giong Temple Festival, Hai Ba Trung Festival, etc. tend to stop or reduce the scale of the organization during the lunar New Year 2022 for COVID-19 prevention and control.

Diverse online tourism promotion activities are organized in the framework of Vietnamese Tet Festival which kicked off in HCM City on Janauary 16, providing information on destinations, and tourism promotion programmes of the city in 2022.

Contemporary art lovers in Vietnam have been familiar with Emmanuel Vincent and Truong Minh Thy Nguyen whose installation art exhibitions were held in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.

On January 16, the Communist Review coordinated with the Central Enterprises Bloc Party Committee and Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group to organize an art performance to celebrate the upcoming founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (February 3, 1930-2022).

For the first time at the National Archives Center I, many interesting interactive activities of the spring day market are being held together with the display of more than 100 versions of interesting, unique and rare documents and images about the traditional Tet holiday of the Vietnamese people.

Ten members of the national women’s football team, including head coach Mai Duc Chung, arrived in India’s Pune city on January 16 for the 2022 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women’s Asian Cup.

The first national-level Vo Viet Nam (previously called Son Long Quyen) championship took place in Algeria on January 14 and 15 to pay tribute to master Aitabdelmalek Larbi, who brought the Vietnamese martial art to the country in 1973.

(CPV) – On January 15, the Party Central Committee Commission on Popularization and Education directed the Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper in collaboration with the Navy High Command and relevant agencies to organize a special art performance to support the Spratly Islands.

The Vietnam Motorkhana Championship finals will be held at the Hanoi Circuit around the My Dinhh Stadium on January 15.

The photo "Afternoon on the Cat Ba Bay" by Vu Manh Cuong wins a gold medal at the RGB 2021 photo contest by the International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP).

(CPV) – 13 French movies will be screened online throughout the lunar New Year (Tet) 2022 from January 14 to February 14.

(CPV) - On the occasion of the lunar New Year 2022, the Party Central Committee’s Commission of Popularization and Education assigned the Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper to coordinate with the Navy Command and relevant agencies to organize the 10th Truong Sa Spring art program.

(CPV) - On January 12, the Organizing Board of Truong Sa Spring programme coordinated with T&T Group to present donations to build new houses for families of two naval soldiers in Nam Van commune, Nam Dinh city, the Red River Delta province of Nam Dinh.

More than 30 exhibits, documents and images featuring tigers throughout over 2,000 years of the country's art history will be on displayed at the Vietnam National Museum of History on January 18.

The Vietnam National Commission for UNESCO reviewed tasks in 2021 and discussed orientations for 2022 during an online conference on January 12.

The 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) and the 11th ASEAN Para Games (ASEAN Para Games 11) have launched their official slogan as “For a Stronger South East Asia”.

The Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs has held a virtual conference to review its implementation of the Prime Minister’s decision on providing newspapers and magazines for ethnic-populated, mountainous, and extremely difficult areas in the 2019 – 2021 period.

The Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper will coordinate with the Naval High Command to organize the 10th art programme on Spring in Spratly Archipelago will take place on January 15.

An ancient bronze bell has been discovered during the construction of a Red River embankment by Nam Phong Trade and Construction Investment Joint Stock Company, on the section flowing through Tuan Quan Bridge,Yen Ninh Ward in the northern mountainous city of Yen Bai.

An exhibition featuring the Tiger – animal designation of the 2022 Lunar New Year has opened in Hanoi on January 8.

Photographer Linh Pham will be the first Vietnamese ever to join the World Press Photo Contest jury.

Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) Tran Quoc Tuan will serve as Acting President until a new president for the 2022-26 term is elected.

(CPV) – Diverse activities introducing the customs, practices, rituals and festivals of ethnic minorities in different regions of the country will take place at the Vietnam National Village of Culture and Tourism from January 1 to 31, 2022.

A ceremony was held at the International Convention Centre in Hanoi on January 8, to honour the winners of the photo contest on wildlife protection in 2021.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has asked local departments under its wings to advise cities and provinces nationwide to cancel festivals and fireworks displays celebrating Tet, Vietnam’s traditional New Year which will come by the end of this month, as concerns rise over COVID-19 spike.

Head coach Park Hang-seo on January 7 proposed summoning 30 players for the national team to prepare for the away match with Australia in the third Asian qualifier of FIFA World Cup 2022, according to the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF).

The annual “Xuan Que Huong” (Homeland Spring) programme 2022, a run-up to the Lunar New Year festival for Overseas Vietnamese (OVs), will take place in Hanoi on January 22.

(CPV)- On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and India (January 7, 1972 - January 7, 2022), the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Center (SVCC), the Indian Embassy in Hanoi and the Vietnam - India Friendship Association in Hanoi (HAVIFA) organized the photo exhibition “Delhi-Hanoi: Friendship Bridge”.

Xoe dance has been closely associated with the customs, practices, beliefs, festivals and cultural activities of the Thai ethnic minority people in the north-western region. Xoe dance has become a thread connecting the community and expressing the ethnic groups’ identities as well as a basis for creating new cultural values.