Thanh Hoa provincial People’s Committee organised a ceremony on November 22 to receive the biggest bronze drum in Vietnam. The drum was offered by Mr. Nguyen Xuan Lam’s family for the occasion of Vietnam Cultural Heritage Day (November 23).
A photo exhibition in celebration of 60 th anniversary of Vietnam – Romania diplomatic relations opened in Hanoi on November 22.
Representatives from six northern mountainous provinces gathered in Tuyen Quang Province on November 21 to discuss how to tap their potential in tourism.
The Tam Nong Sport Tourism Urban Centre (Dream City) would be built on a total area of more than 2,000 ha in Tam Nong District, Phu Tho Province to become the largest eco-tourism area in the north of Viet Nam, said the Viet Han Trading, Advertising, Construction and Real Estate Ltd Company.
Retail sales were one of the most important benefits of tourism and essential to boost co-ordination between State bodies in order to design more professional sales promotion strategies to lure visitors, experts said at a seminar in Ha Noi on November 19.
A painting exhibition by Do Danh Than an overseas Vietnamese living in France opened at the Vietnam Culture Centre in France on November 20.
The Long Bien Bridge Festival opens on November 20 with more events and performers than ever, according to festival founder and organiser Nguyen Nga. Nga, an overseas Vietnamese living in France , is busy completing final preparations for the festival, to be entitled Dragon Bridge.
French photo-journalist Nicolas Cornet is holding a retrospective exhibition of photographs at L’Espace – French Cultural Center in Hanoi from November 23 until December 10.
A photo contest themed “Vietnam’s land and people†has been launched in Nantes, a city on the out skirts of Paris, with the aim of strengthening solidarity and closeness between Vietnamese and other youths in France.
As many as 150 photos on the land and people of Asian countries, including Vietnam by Russian photographer Sergey Kovalchuk are on display at an exhibition that opened in Moscow on November 16.
The sixth European Music Festival will be held in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from November 26 to December 4.
Viet Nam's rapid urbanisation during the past several years has produced many benefits, but one of the drawbacks has been the growing threat that modernisation poses to the nation's heritage.