Culture - Sports

The Vietnamese women’s football team is ready to face Myanmar at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020’s third qualifying round in the Republic of Korea on February 6.

Vietnamese movie “Cha cong con” (Father and Son) directed by Luong Dinh Dung is being screened in Saudi Arabia throughout February.

Vietnam has added 11 more cultural icons to the list of national intangible cultural heritage, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Vietnamese athletes will take part in the Senior Asian Wrestling Championship in New Delhi, India, from February 18-23.

A book exhibition was opened at the National Library of Vietnam in Hanoi on February 2 to celebrate the 90th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Long An Provincial Party Committee held a meeting with intellectuals, journalists and artists to celebrate the Party and celebrate the Year of the Rat 2020.

An art troupe of HCM City’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism joined more than 5,000 performers from 149 countries and international organisations at the 48th edition of the Chingay Parade in Singapore on January 31.

Around 40,000 visitors made the pilgrimage to Huong Pagoda in Hanoi’s My Duc district on January 30, the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, to attend the opening of the longest-running festival in the country.

Vietnam’s weightlifters bagged 10 gold medals on the two competition days of the recent 2020 Weightlifting World Cup in Rome, signaling a good start for the sport in the year, according to the Vietnam Sports Administration.

Masterpiece “Kieu Story” by renowned poet Nguyen Du has been brought to the new genre of opera under the name of “Kim Van Kieu” by Vietnamese and French performers.

The 2020 Spring Book Street was opened in Hanoi on January 27 as part of the activities to celebrate the 90th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the traditional lunar New Year festival.

When his parents gave him a book that taught him how to fold paper into dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures at the age of seven, Nguyen Hung Cuong found his passion – origami.