The Vietnamese Embassy in Japan has worked with various domestic and overseas colleagues to organise a series of cultural events during Vietnamese Culture Month in several big cities in Japan to celebrate the 36th anniversary of the establishment of Vietnamese-Japanese diplomatic relations. A campaign promoting Vietnam tourism was launched by the Vietnamese Embassy in Tokyo, [...]
Vietnam now has to compete fiercely with regional countries which are more professional and have more experience in tourism promotion in order to attract more tourists to Vietnam. Arriving in Schezuan province on August 30 to launch tourism promotion activities, the Vietnamese delegation discovered that officials and travel firms from five other countries were present [...]
Ho Chi Minh City’s Rong Vang (Golden Dragon) water puppetry troupe, owned by Thai Duong Stage Arts Company, will represent Vietnam to take part in the Kijimura Festa Festival 2009 in Japan at the invitation of Eshio Okinawa Joint Stock Company. The 17-member troupe will give 7 performances in Tokyo and Okinawa between July 20 [...]
Besides introducing the movies Moon in the Bottom of Well the Rotterdam Film Festival in the Netherlands from January 20 to February 2, director Nguyen Vinh Son organized a small exhibition about Vietnam’s temples at the request of the festival organizers. The organizing board proposed the exhibition because a temple was used as an impressive [...]
A photo exhibition on three ethnic minorities (including Co Tu, Ta Oi and Pa Ko) in central Thua Thien-Hue province taken by French photographer Sebastien Laval will be held at the French Cultural Centre in Hanoi on November 6-22, 2008. With 50 mainly black-and-white photos, the exhibition will offer viewers a snap shot of the [...]
An exhibition by an overseas artist Pham Thi Doan Thanh, titled Ban Lang Trong Thung Lung (Villages in Mountain Valleys), has opened last Friday at the Viet Nam Ethnology Museum in Ha Noi. The show gathers 42 paintings featuring ethnic minority women and children amid the natural landscape of northern mountainous provinces. After studying [...]
Vietnamese film week will be held at Megastar VinCom Tower in Ha Noi and Megastar Parkson Hung Vuong in Ho Chi Minh from October 9 to 16. Many well-known actors, directors and producers will be present at film fest’s opening ceremony. More than 10 films including Ao lua Ha Dong (The White Silk Dress), Song [...]
Vietnam’s film “Pao’s Story”, directed by Ngo Quang Hai, was screened at the Cinema Centre Rodina of Saint Petersburg on the night of September 17 opening the Vietnam Film Week in the city. During the cultural event, which is part of Vietnamese Days in Saint Petersburg, a series of Vietnam films were introduced for the [...]
An exhibition featuring 56 paintings and calligraphy works by 19 painters belonging to the Chinese-Vietnamese Painters Club are on display in Ho Chi Minh City. The artists include veterans like Truong Han Minh, Truong Lo, Huynh Tuan Ba, and Ly Tung Nien as well as some young painters. Their works are based on images [...]
Three Vietnamese paintings are on show at an art exhibition which opened on August 21 as part of the Beijing Olympics. The “Dancing” lacquer painting of Nguyen Dinh Tai, the “Yesterday’s story” oil-painting of Nguyen Quoc Huy and the “New century” oil-painting of Tran Quoc Huy have been East Asian countries. The exhibition, organised by [...]