(VOVworld) – Vietnam’s northern mountains provide a wealth of inspiration to photographers. The region attracts tourists for its unspoiled beauty and winding terraced fields nestled in the valleys and mountain slopes. Terraced field have become a typical feature of local inhabitants.

(VOVworld) – Vietnam’s Thang Long Puppetry Theater has won recognition by the India-based Asian Book of Records for “being the only theatre in Asia that performs water puppetry all 365 days of the year”. The recognition rewards the theatre’s effort to preserve Vietnam’s traditional art and promote it worldwide.

(VOVworld) – The recent 18th Vietnam Film Festival not only honored excellent works and authors, but also remembered the 60-year old history of Vietnam’s cinematography.

(VOVworld) – On the sidelines of the recent annual meeting of the Asian National Museum Association (ANMA4), the Vietnam National Museum of History opened an exhibition in Hanoi themed: “Asia – Cultural Colors”, showcasing ancient heritage items of Vietnam and other Asian nations.

(VOVworld) – For generations, the communal house has been a center for preserving and promoting the traditional values, customs, and habits of the Vietnamese village. The recent exhibition “Communal house dialogue” reflects artists’ view of what the communal house means to rural people’s lives.

(VOVworld) – American war veteran Brian Delate, who is also an actor and author of the play “Memorial Day”, said the play has many details from his real life and stories he has been told by other American soldiers about their pain and torment. VOV reporter Lan An accompanied Delate to a meeting with the play’s Vietnamese audience.

(VOVworld) – Hanoians were treated to a special theatrical event, the festival of plays by talented playwright Luu Quang Vu in early September. The festival, which commemorated the 25th anniversary of the death of Vu, featured his 13 plays. Vu’s works now remain relevant to the present days and still appealing to the audiences.

(VOVworld) – In his revolutionary career, President Ho Chi Minh wrote many historic documents and famous works, including a collection of poems called “Prison diary”. The work is a self-portrait in poems, reflecting the humane and optimistic soul of the profound communist and poet Ho Chi Minh.

(VOVworld) – The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has submitted the dossier of Don ca tai tu or amateur singing to UNESCO for recognition of the art as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

(VOVworld) – 20 years ago Vietnam’s Hue imperial relic complex was the first to be recognized by UNESCO as a world cultural heritage site. Since then the number of Vietnam’s recognized heritage items has been on the rise, including natural, tangible, intangible and documentary heritage.