Culture - Sports

Vietnamese weightlifter K’Duong broke three youth 55kg world records at the Asian Youth & Junior Weightlifting Championships in Uzbekistan on July 18.

Over 2,000 people will join a Xoe dance performance of Thai ethnic people in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai, which is slated for September this year.

The reopening of theaters has brought about not only a great joy to audiences and artists, but also many anxieties about economic and safety problems.

Vietnamese wushu athlete Duong Thuy Vi took a gold medal at the 2022 World Games early on July 13 in Birmingham in the US state of Alabama.

An overwhelming 6-0 victory over Timor Leste in the evening of July 11 led to an one-match-early slot for Vietnam at the Asian Football Federation (AFF) Women's Championship’s semi-finals.

Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Liem has been back on the International Chess Federation (FIDE) standard chess ranking after two-year absence as he had not competed in this category internationally since 2020.

State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has highlighted significant contributions of blind poet Nguyen Dinh Chieu to Vietnam’s literature, education and culture.

Vietnam will be the host country of Miss Grand International 2023.

The Hue Festival 2022 is scheduled to take place from June 25-30 with eight major programmes and many sidelines events, the People’s Committee of Thua Thien-Hue province unveiled at a press conference on June 20.

More than 1,000 artists from 22 professional art troupes across the country will take part in the National Dance and Music Festival 2022 scheduled to take place in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak from June 17-30.

A secondary school in the Central Highlands has opened classes teaching students to play the gong to preserve and promote one of the most recognised traditional cultural features of the region.

Vietnam will contribute to preventing a disease that is very destructive to livestock.