This year’s Hue Festival will be participated in by over 60 art troupes from 47 countries all over the world, as well as 53 local performers. It will be held from April 29 – May 4, 2016 at the central province of Thua Thien – Hue. This year’s Hue Festival celebrates the 710 years since […]
Hue Festival is Vietnam’s biggest cultural event highlighting the country’s rich 710-year history in a grand display of sports, art and of course cultural activities. It comes only every two years so it is highly anticipated not only by the local citizens but by foreign tourists as well. This year, it will be celebrated from […]
The name Co Do Village may not ring a bell to most, but when Painter’s Village is mentioned, it becomes familiar to almost everyone. That is because farmers in the said community turn to painting after a hard day’s work to release their stress and at the same time develop their creativity using the very […]
One of the highlights of this year’s Tet is a Tuong presentation by 30 of the classical drama actors from Dao Tan Theatre in the Central Binh Province. They will go around Ho Chi Minh City to showcase their talent and the beauty of the traditional art form as a whole. Tuong started in […]
Two agencies of the Vietnamese government have handed over more than $3,000 as a reward to two men who have entrusted their accidental digs to the Thanh Hoa Museum. The People’s Committee of Thanh Hoa Province and the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism awarded Truong Thanh Quang and Do Van Hien with VND66 million […]
The Imperial Archives of the Nguyen Dynasty is composed of original administrative documents about the social and economic activities during the said regime. They are officially labelled as a Documentary Heritage of the UNESCO Memory of the World Register for the Asia Pacific Region this year. The Imperial Archives of the Nguyen Dynasty consist of […]
Sedge planting and mat making is a common source of livelihood in many provinces in Vietnam, but Nga Son in Thanh Hoa Province stands out from all the rest when it comes to quality. For centuries, Nga Son has been creating beautiful, unique and affordable sedge mats that earned its fame and piqued the interest […]
Between the 15th -16th centuries, Northern immigrants introduced handicrafts to the Southern part of Vietnam, including Quang Nam. This led to the development of the place which carried on even after more than hundreds of years later. Today, the “Occupation Village” preserved not only a centuries-old tradition but even made itself known to the rest of the […]
A 12-day excavation by experts from the Institute of Archaeology in Dong Van Park, Ha Giang Province revealed an enormous collection of rock items dating back more than 20,000 years ago. The find was mostly accidental when a road construction at the park caused an erosion and exposed certain patterns which caught the archaeologists’ attention. […]
A joint excavation team composed of archaeologists from the Ha Noi University of Social Sciences and the Humanities (USSH) and Da Nang’s Museum of Cham Sculpture discovered the foundations of the century-old Cham Temple Towers at Qua Giang 2 Village, Hoa Phuoc Commune, Hoa Vang District, Da Nang. The excavation lasted for almost a month […]