(VOVWORLD) - To preserve and promote traditional arts, aside from training the next generation of young artists, it is equally important to have a new generation of audience members. Art troupes in Ho Chi Minh City have performed in schools to rekindle students’ love for the traditional arts.

(VOVWORLD) - Hanoi Tourism Ao Dai Festival honors Vietnam’s traditional costumes and attracts visitors to the capital city. The Festival presents Vietnamese Ao Dai as an Ambassador of Vietnamese culture and tourism.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnamese feature film "Tro tan Ruc Ro" (Glorious Ashes) by Bui Thac Chuyen won the "Golden Balloon" award at the Festival des 3 Continents, also known as the Three Continents Film Festival, in Nantes, France. The jury said they gave the award to this film "for the poetic beauty of the world the film portrays, which is both shimmering and bewitching, as well as for the very loving and very mischievous portrayal of its three heroines." The film debuted in Vietnam on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - A number of cultural activities are being held in Hanoi to mark Vietnam Cultural Heritage Day on November 23. The program “All Silk Roads” is part of this series of cultural events introducing silk products, silk weaving, as well as fashionable products in the Old Quarter of Hanoi.

(VOVWORLD) - 400 films and movies from 68 countries and territories joined the 6th Hanoi International Film Festival, Haniff, from November 8-12. With the theme "Cinema - Humanity, Adaptation and Development", the festival honors excellent international and Vietnamese cinematographic works with artistic value, imbued with humanity, and creativity in cinematic language.

(VOVWORLD) - The annual National External Information Service Award is a prestigious event that recognizes Vietnamese and foreign journalists for their contributions to introducing and promoting Vietnam to the world. At this year’s awards, VOVWORLD (VOV5) of the Voice of Vietnam won first and third prize in the radio category.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s music fans have learned about Japan’s traditional musical instruments at a recent charity concert in Hanoi involving Vietnamese bamboo ensemble New Vitality and Japanese music group Ryoma Quartet. The event was part of activities to mark 50 years of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Japan.

(VOVWORLD) - The Political Bureau's Resolution to build and develop Da Nang until 2030 with vision to 2045, will change Da Nang into a smart city and connect it with the network of smart cities in Vietnam and ASEAN by 2030. To realize this goal, Da Nang worked out a digital transformation project, defining digital transformation as an impetus to develop itself into a modern, livable, and smart eco-city.

(VOVWORLD) - Overseas Vietnamese people have always kept in mind that preserving Vietnamese is a way to preserve national culture and traditions. Vietnamese people in the Czech Republic have organized regular Vietnamese classes for the Vietnamese of the second or third generation, considering it a medium to connect overseas Vietnamese and inspire love and pride of the homeland.

(VOVWORLD) - Stretching across mountain slopes between 1,000 and 2,000m above sea level, Son La province’s forests of docynia indica tree are in the harvest season. The docynia indica tree, known in Vietnamese as 'tao meo', provides a livelihood for the local people and increases forest cover.