Culture - Sports

A series of royal rituals, which used to be held on the occasion of the Lunar New Year festival in the past.

The Hoan Kiem District People’s Committee opened Hang Luoc street traditional flower market and diverse activities at Phung Hung street mural space on January 19 in celebration of the upcoming Tet holiday.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam recently signed a decision to recognise five relic sites as special national ones.

The 2022 Tet Viet (Vietnamese Tet) Festival kicked off in HCM City on January 16.

The Vietnam Motorkhana Championship 2021, the first-ever international-standard professional sport car race in Vietnam, opened in Hanoi on January 15.

The selection round of Miss Fitness Vietnam 2022, a national event featuring fitness enthusiasts, will open on January 16 in Ho Chi Minh City.

An exhibition by Vietnamese-French painter Vincent Monluc is underway in Ho Chi Minh City, featuring art paintings depicting Vietnamese nature, people and daily life.

The 31st Southeast Asian Games and the 11th ASEAN Para Games have launched their official slogan as “For a Stronger South East Asia”.

The upcoming game between Vietnam and China in the 2022 FIFA World Cup Asian qualifiers will admit 20,000 spectators to the My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi, or half of its capacity, according to the Vietnam Football Federation.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended a ceremony in Hanoi on January 9 to launch a campaign on creating children’s literature works, and present the first young author award.

Proactively popularising Vietnam’s cultural values to the world is one of the targets determined in the cultural development strategy until 2030.

Vietnam’s football will continue to step up international cooperation this year after achievements obtained in 2021, viewing it as a long-term development strategy.