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Almost one year away from the Hanoi-Thang long millennium event, but the capital city has been heating up with celebrations, including contests on stamp designing, poems and music composition for the October 10, 2010 festivities. The Vietnam Post Corporation has held a contest to design stamps on Hanoi, highlighting the city’s role as the capital of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam as well as its socio-economic achievements... | |
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Nine stories of the lives, dreams and struggles of people living in the three Mekong River sub-regional countries of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia are now spotlighted at an exhibition in Hanoi. “Mekong’s story: Challenge and dream, ” a mobile exhibition that opened at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology on November 25 aims to enhance intangible values and reflect the challenges the nations are facing in ensuring balance between preservation of cultural identities and development. | |
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A conference on Gong culture took place in the central highland city of Pleiku on November 14 as part of the International Gong Festival 2009. Many scientists and managers from different countries delivered more than 74 speeches focused on the change in socio-economic conditions and the preservation of gong culture in Vietnam and in Southeast Asia. | |
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Nearly 100 participants including researchers and collectors, experts from the Vietnam National Library, the HCMC Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and libraries from Danang to Ca Mau provinces discussed ways to preserve the old documents in Nom (old Vietnamese ideographic script adapted from Han Chinese script). | |
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Tai tu music troupes from 15 southern provinces ended competition in the Southern Tai Tu Festival in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta’s Hau Giang Province on November 30. The public interest in the festival testified to the extensive local development of the art form, said the organisers, who hope that tai tu will be granted national cultural heritage status. | |
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The Thai Nguyen Tea Festival 2009 sponsored by Vietnam Television (VTV) and the Thai Nguyen Radio and Television Station took place in La Bang Commune, Dai Tu District, Thai Nguyen Province on November 28 The festival held at the most beautiful tea terrace-field in La Bang honours the characteristics of tea trees, tea farming and tea production, as well as promoting the brand name of Thai Nguyen tea. | |
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Tourists on a “Cultural journey through the Red River Delta’s ceramic villages” on November 13 stopped at Tho Ha Village in Viet Yen District, in the northern province of Bac Giang, during their current trip. The journey is part of a six-year (2003-09) project between the Ministry of Culture and Information and the Belgian community of Wallonie-Bruxelles aiming to establish a cultural itinerary for Vietnam. | |
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A group of six actors from the UK theatre group TNT will perform in five cities and provinces throughout Vietnam from November 24 to December 5. They will stage the opera “A Christmas Carol”, adapted from the short story of the same name by the great English writer Charles Dickens, in Hanoi, plus the central cities of Hue and Danang and the central province of Binh Dinh as well as Ho Chi Minh City. | |
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A film crew from France’s TV5 channel has shot the Vit Co Xanh ecological village in northern Hoa Binh Province and Sao Bien yacht in Halong Bay, Quang Ninh Province. French film makers came to Vietnam under the sponsorship of Vietnam Adventure Company. This film will be broadcasted on TV5’s Tourism Discover programme, which introduces unique tourist sites to the French-speaking community. | |
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The representatives of 17 regional travel agencies, including Saigontourist (Vietnam), attended a meeting in Bangkok, Thailand and agreed to establish an Asian Cruise Services Network (ACSN). | |
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