Culture - Sports

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.

These days, the atmosphere all over the roads in Long An province is bustling up to celebrate the XIth Provincial Party Congress, term 2020-2025. Along the roads are full of flowers, flags and banners to welcome the festival.

An exhibition themed ‘Kinh Do Muon Doi’ is underway at the Thang Long Royal Citadel in Hanoi as part of activities to celebrate 1010th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi and the 66th anniversary of the city's Liberation Day.

The Vietnam Public Relations Network on October 10 honoured winners of the photo contest “Resilient Vietnam,” which aims to capture how Vietnamese people resiliently fight COVID-19.

The Prime Minister has issued a decision to establish the National Council for Cultural Heritage, an advisory body to help the PM on work relating to the preservation and promotion of the values of cultural heritages in Vietnam.

Music composer Phu Quang won the Grand Prize of the 13th Bui Xuan Phai – For Love of Hanoi Awards during a ceremony held at the headquarters of the Vietnam News Agency in Hanoi on October 7.

An event to highlight outstanding examples in a campaign responding to the global environmental challenge “Red Alert - Earth Can’t Wait” launched by global organisation Save the Children took place in Hanoi on October 4.

A calligraphy exhibition and festival is underway at the Van Mieu-Quoc Tu Giam in Hanoi on October 2 to celebrate the 1,010th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

Vietnamese archaeology has continued to record significant discoveries and diverse valuable achievements in the past year, as announced at the 55th national archaeological conference.