On the morning of February 8, the People's Committee of Chi Lang ward, Lang Son city held the opening ceremony of the 2023 Tien Pagoda Festival. This is one of the 11 festivals selected by the Organizing Committee of celebrating the Party and 2023 Lunar New Year in Lang Son province to be the key festival. Delegates attended the...

The Vietnam Fine Arts Museum and Fine Arts Publishing House have collaborated to release a bilingual book on nine national treasures that are now preserved in the museum. The 115-page book, entitled “9 Bao vat quoc gia o Bao tang My thuat Viet Nam” (9 National Treasures in the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum) (Photo courtesy of the museum) The...

The Con Son-Kiep Bac Spring Festival opened at Con Son-Kiep Bac special national relic site in Chi Linh city, the northern province of Hai Duong on February 6, along with a ceremony to commemorate the 689th death anniversary of Huyen Quang - the third progenitor of the Truc Lam Zen Buddhism sect. A view of the Kiep Bac Temple...

The Festival of Spring Colours is taking place at the Vietnam Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism throughout February with a series of traditional cultural activities. Visitors to the festival can learn how to cook delicious dishes from different ethnic groups. (Photo: langvanhoavietnam.vn) The festival is held annually to welcome the spring and to honour ethnic communities' identity,...

The annual Nguyen Tieu Festival on the 15th of lunar January in Hoi An, central Quang Nam province, has been recognised as a National Intangible Heritage by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Hoi An leaders receive certificate recognising annual Nguyen Tieu Festival as National Intangible Heritage (Photo: VNA) The festival celebrates the full moon of the...

Circus artists Giang Quoc Co and Giang Quoc Nghiep on February 3 (Vietnam time) set a new head-to-head balancing walk plus blindfold record in Milan, Italy. Circus artists Giang Quoc Co and Giang Quoc Nghiep (Photo: Ngo Tran Hai An/Vietnam+) They walked the 40-cm wide and 10-m long surface and climbed up and down 10 steps in 1 minute...

According to Australia’s tourism website traveler.com.au, pho is surely Vietnam's greatest culinary gift to the world. Vietnam's pho is the greatest culinary gift to the world: Australia’s tourism website (Photo: VNA) An article posted on the web said people can argue long into the night about the world's best soup. Maybe it's ramen, laksa, bouillabaisse or caldo verde or...

The Tay Yen Tu (West Yen Tu) Spring Festival and the Culture - Tourism Week 2023 of northern Bac Giang province opened with a ceremony held at the Tay Yen Tu spiritual and ecological tourism complex on February 2. The opening ceremony of the Tay Yen Tu Spring Festival and the Culture - Tourism Week 2023 of Bac...

A poetry and photographic exhibition on late General Vo Nguyen Giap opened on February 1 in the central province of Quang Binh as part of activities to celebrate the 93rd founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (February 3, 1930-2023). At the opening ceremony of the exhibition. (Photo: VGP) The exhibition entitled "Theo Dau chan Dai tuong Vo...

The world’s most popular search engine Google paid tribute to Suong Nguyet Anh, the first female editor of the first women’s newspaper in Vietnam by posting a drawing of her on its homepage on February 1. Google's homepage on February 1. (Photo: Google) On this day in 1918, the first publication of “Nu Gioi Chung” (Women's Bell) newspaper,...