Culture - Sports

The Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC)’s Organizing Board of Major Holidays has held an art programme entitled “A Nation's Festival” in the city to celebrate the success of the election of deputies to the 15th NA and all-level People's Councils for the 2021-2026 term.

The Hanoi Radio and Television (HTV) has held an arts performance entitled “A song of unity” at Hanoi Opera House in celebration of the success of the election of deputies to the 15th National Assembly and People’s Councils at all levels for the 2021-2026 tenure.

The Consulate General of Italy in Ho Chi Minh City has launched two photo exhibitions on the landscapes of Italy and Vietnam at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum.

A portrait, titled La Joconde (Mona Lisa), by late painter Mai Trung Thu (1906-1980) will be available for bidding on May 24 as part of the Christie’s Hong Kong Spring Auctions.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has invited Vietnam to attend the 17th International Book Fair of Venezuela (FILVEN) 2021 as the main guest at the event which is scheduled to take place in November.

Vietnamese photographer Ninh Manh Thang secured two silver medals at the globally renowned Photo Circle 2021 competition.

The Ho Chi Minh City Museum of History has the Ho Chi Minh city-based Ho Chi Minh Museum to organize an exhibition on President Ho Chi Minh’s life and revolutionary career to mark the 131st anniversary of his birthday and 110 years since he began his journey to find a way to save the country.

As many of 300 documents and photos on studying and following President Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, morality and style on display at an exhibition which opened in Hanoi on May 18.

Nearly 100 photos on President Ho Chi Minh’s life and revolutionary cause, and the city named after the President, are on display at an exhibition at Dong Khoi street, Nguyen Du precinct, district 1.

On May 16, a delegation of Ho Chi Minh City participated in the tree-planting launching ceremony celebrating the 131st anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh’s birth.

The central Ha Tinh City Party Committee has held a conference to review the 5-year implementation of Directive 05-CT/TW of the Politburo on promoting the studying and following of President Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, morality and style.

On May 16, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee coordinated with the Party Central Committee Commission of Popularization and Education, the Ministry of Education and Training, and the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs to organize the opening ceremony of the National Olympiad on Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh's Thought 2021.

A workshop highlighting President Ho Chi Minh’s life and career has taken place in Canada to mark the 131st anniversary of the President’s birth (May 19). It was also an opportunity to help international friends understand more President Ho Chi Minh.

(CPV) - An online dialogue on the life and career of President Ho Chi Minh; the significance and importance of President Ho Chi Minh's departure to find the way to save the country; and activities of studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style is taking place at the Headquarter of the Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper.

Hanoi People's Committee issued Plan 119/KH-UBND on May 10, 2021 to organize reading culture activities in 2021 to meet the reading needs of the people in the Capital.

In more than 3 days, more than 2,400 times, candidates working and living in agencies, units and enterprises that have trade unions under the Vietnam Public Sector Union have participated in the online contest on the Resolution of the Party Congress.

The Vietnam Children Fine Arts Contest 2021has been launched by the Fine Arts, Photography and Exhibition Department under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

(CPV) - An online dialogue in celebration of the 131st anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh’s birth (May 19, 1890-2021) and the 110th year of President Ho Chi Minh’s departure to seek ways for national salvation will take place at 8:30 am on May 17, 2021, in Hanoi.

The northern Vinh Phuc Provincial Party Committee has held a meeting to review the five-year implementation of Directive 05 of the Politburo on promoting studying and following President Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, morality and style.

A new book on President Ho Chi Minh has made public to celebrate the 131st anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh’s birth (May 19, 1890-2021).

A songwriting contest entitled “Let’s sing Vietnam” launched by the Voice of Vietnam(VOV) aims to celebrate the success of the 13th National Party Congress, publicise the images of Vietnam and its people as well as praise the achievements of the country under the guidance of the Party.

More than 140 posters from various documentaries and movies depicting the life of President Ho Chi Minh are also exhibited at an exhibition which has opened in Ho Chi Minh City.

Rowers have secured Vietnam’s seventh Olympic slot at the World Rowing Asia and Oceania Olympic and Paralympic qualification regatta which ended in Japan on May 7.

The Ministry of Transport will prioritise funding for the maintenance and repair of Long Bien Bridge, an iconic structure in the Vietnamese capital.

Five outstanding Brazilian films will be screened during the Brazilian film week in Hanoi from May 10 – 14.

The first Vietnam International Photography Festival will take place in northern province of Ninh Binh in later this year.

The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Bac Ninh province has recently organized an exhibition themed “75 years of the National Assembly of Vietnam - Impression, beliefs and hopes" at the Museum of the province.

The Ho Chi Minh City People Committee has added 35 old villas in the city to the list of ancient villas that need to be preserved. The list now has more than 200 villas.

A photo exhibition entitled ‘A national festive day’ was held in Can Tho city on April 27 to mark the upcoming elections of deputies to the 15th National Assembly (NA) and all-level People’s Councils for 2021-2026.

“The Vietnam Day at MGIMO” (Moscow State Institute of International Relations) returned to the Russian capital city on April 29 (local time) with a host of events on the eve of the 46th anniversary of the National Reunification Day (April 30).