Culture - Sports

Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has allowed bars, dance clubs and karaoke parlors to reopen from January 10 after a period of suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The central Thua Thien – Hue provincial People's Committee has organized an event to announce Hue Festival 2022.

Hanoi City People’s Committee has issued a plan to set off both high-altitude and low-altitude fireworks at only one location - Thong Nhat Park in Hai Ba Trung district on lunar New Year’s Eve 2022.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has launched a contest on Vietnam’s traditional lunar New Year to popularize inspirational stories as the lunar New Year is approaching.

The Prime Minister issued Decision 2239/QD-TTg approving the Vocational training development strategy in 2021-2030 period, with a vision until 2045.

An additional 301 billion VND (13.17 million USD) from the 2021 State budget for sport and training has been approved for regular expenditure tasks needed for the preparation for the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games).

On the occasion of the New Year 2022, many exhibitions of painting, sculpture, calligraphy, installation art were organised at art galleries in Hanoi, to serve the public.

The central province of Thanh Hoa is making efforts to develop community-based tourism in its mountainous district of Ngoc Lac in a bid to preserve the traditional stilt houses of the local Muong ethnic people, which account for over 70 percent of the district’s population.

The Yen Bai provincial People’s Committee held a ceremony on December 31 to receive certificates recognising the terraced rice fields in Mu Cang Chai District as a special national site as well as the new rice celebration of the H’mong ethnic people in the district as a national intangible cultural heritage, reported Nhan Dan News.

The Vietnam National Day at World Expo 2020 Dubai officially opened on December 30 with a flag-raising ceremony at Al Wasl Plaza.

The Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneer Organisation Central Council has coordinated with the Vietnam Post and the Vietnam Philatelic Association to launch a contest to collect and study postage stamps on Vietnam’s sea and islands for children aged 8-15.

According to the Hanoi City Department of Culture and Sports, the capital city will hold virtual events and pre-record cultural performance programmes to welcome 2022, which will be broadcast on New Year's Eve.

Seven localities in Republic of Korea (RoK) and VTC10 channel of VTC Digital Television (Vietnam) have signed a cooperation agreement on supporting the introduction of Korean cultural wave (Hallyu) content into Vietnam and strengthening Korean-Vietnamese exchanges.

(CPV) - The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Online Newspaper and 11 other press outlets were honoured to receive the Impressive Electronic Interface Award in 2021, presented by the Vietnam Journalists Association.

(CPV) - The Central Hue City People’s Committee has decided to suspend the opening of the night pedestrian zone around Hue Imperial Citadel to better prevent and control COVID-19.

(CPV) - The art troupe from the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong province, including 14 ethnic minority artisans, will participate in the art program "The Eternal Flow" in Dubai, UAE.

Coach Mai Duc Chung and his squad of 23 players left for a short training camp in Spain on December 26, as they put together their final touches ahead of the 2022 Asian Women's Cup.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has organized a programme in Hanoi to introduce typical artists of the performing arts industry in 2021.

The central Quang Tri provincial Department of Information and Communications coordinated with the Quang Tri Provicial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism to organize to organize an exhibition on Vietnam’s sea and islands.

Diverse activities in celebration of New Year will be held at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism in the Dong Mo tourism area of Son Tay Town, Hanoi, from January 1-3.

On December 27, Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics coordinated with the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, the Lao National Academy of Politics and Public Administration, and the Lao National Institute of Economic and Social Sciences to organize a seminar to discuss the role of culture and people to both countries’ renewal process and development.

(CPV) - On December 26, in the northern province of Hai Duong, the Editorial Board of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Online Newspaper and Hai Duong Provincial Party Committee held a conference to sign a communications cooperation program for the period 2022-2025.

On December 26, a ceremony to launch bookcase on studying and following Ho Chi Minh's thoughts, morals and style took place at Ho Chi Minh City book street.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has signed has signed Decision 2198/QD-TTg on December 25, 2021 to recognise 23 more national treasures.

Five Polish films are being screened at the Polish Film Festival in Vietnam 2021 from December 23 to 28.

“Bo Gia” (Dad, I’m sorry), by directors Tran Thanh and Vu Ngoc Dang, was honoured as the Best Feature Film at Golden Kite Awards 2020 which has recently held by the Vietnam Cinema Association (VCA) in Hanoi.

(CPV) – Politburo member and permanent member of the Party Central Committee's Secretariat of Vo Van Thuong asked the dissemination sector to continue innovating contents and models of operation, contributing to the successful implementation of the tasks of the 13th National Party Congress.

A Vietnamese Film Week will be introduced for the first time at World Expo 2020 Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from December 30 to January 5, 2022.

59 paintings praising the beauty of life in the new moral context are on display an exhibition which opened at Nhan Dan Newspaper’s headquarters in Hanoi on December 22.

Diverse activities to mark the 110th birth anniversary of General Vo Nguyen Giap (August 25, 1911 - 2021) and the 77th founding anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army (December 22, 1944 - 2021) are taking place in different localities nationwide.