Vietnam has asked Japan to continue helping the country preserve the Thang Long Citadel and join hands with Vietnam in events celebrating the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.
A group of 32 musicians, poets, photographers, and other artists has begun a 10-day tour of Vietnam to create artworks that will showcase the development of the country and its beauty.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the People’s Committee of Phu Tho Province are urgently completing a dossier to submit to UNESCO for recognition of the “Belief and Hung Temple Festival†as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
A series of cultural, art and sporting events were held at the Kinh Bac Culture Centre in Bac Ninh City on April 15 as part of the Bac Ninh Festival 2010 as well as celebrating 35 years of Vietnamese-German diplomatic ties.
Vietnam and Myanmar, who share a number of cultural features, have agreed to more cultural exchanges in performing arts and archaeology.
An open-air photo exhibition on Vietnam’s former capitals has opened in the midland province of Phu Tho. About 200 photos selected from 1,000 works take by domestic and foreign photographers provide an overview on five Vietnamese typical ancient capitals, including Van Lang in Phu Tho, Hoa Lu in Ninh Binh, Lam Kinh-Thanh Hoa, Hue of Thua Thien-Hue and Thang Long-Hanoi.
An exhibition displaying some 50 works of calligraphy in Korean script based on President Ho Chi Minh’s Prison Diary kicked off in Hanoi on April 15.
The national commemoration of the Hung Kings and the Hung Temple Festival is a vivid manifestation the great national unity, showing the national responsibility to the country’s founders, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has said.
An exhibition called “Balgo: Contemporary Australian Art from the Balgo Hills†will open at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Nguyen Van Huyen Street, Hanoi on April 17. The event is a part of a program organized by the Australian Embassy called once in 1,000 years: An Australian Gift to Hanoi.
The first Viet Tri City Street Festival, in the midland province of Phu Tho, begins a ten-day national commemoration of the Hung Temple Festival on April 14.
Up to 22 capital and cities around the world and foreign embassies in Vietnam have registered to take part in activities marking 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi that will be held later this year. According to the National Steering Committee for the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi, the city of Fukuoka in Japan, has registered for Japanese culture days in Hanoi.
Vietnam and Cambodia are planning to work together more closely to increase the number of tourist arrivals in both countries, experts have said. The numbers of cruise ship travellers who visit the Angkor Wat complex in Siem Reap, Cambodia after visiting Vietnam are very high, according to Le Dinh Tuan, Chairman of the director board of Viet Excursions, which provides land tours for cruise guests.