Culture - Sports

Over the past time, cultural external affairs in Vinh Hung district of Long An province have been deployed synchronously to maintain political security, social order on border lines, promote the local socio-economic development.

Every year, on September 11 and 12 of the Lunar calendar, people come to Vam Nhut Tao Historic site (Tan Binh commune, Tan Tru district) to organize the death anniversary of the National Hero Nguyen Trung Truc.

A festival centring on the Vietnamese Mother Goddess worshipping opened in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai on October 26, drawing large crowds of practitioners and visitors.

Records tumbled at the Vietnam Jungle Marathon over the weekend as all distances from 10km to 70km saw new course records broken by Vietnam-based runners.

The Department of Culture - Sports and Tourism of Long An province organized a series of cultural activities at the Vam Nhut Tao Historic site from October 26 to October 27.

The traditional Ok Om Bok festival of the Khmer ethnic group was opened in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh on October 25.

More than 1,100 runners on October 24 will race up to 70km in the Vietnam Jungle Marathon in Pu Luong Nature Reserve in the central province of Thanh Hoa.

Viet Van Tran, a photographer from the Lao Dong newspaper, has been selected to join others of a free-to-enter online Salon of Photography.

The British Council has launched its arts grants programme Connections Through Culture UK - Southeast Asia for the 2020 – 2021 period, aiming to support exchanges and collaboration between the two sides.

Photos, feature films and documentaries by people from Southeast Asian countries will be on display at the Administrative Centre of Lam Dong from October 19-22.

A charity race for the UpRace community raised more than 3 billion VND for Newborns Vietnam, GreenViet, Vietseeds, and Operation Smile.

An awards ceremony for the Vietnam Art Photo Contest and Exhibition 2020 was held in Hanoi on October 14.