April 2009 | VietNam Culture - Tourism - Events

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Duy Xuyen - land of festivals

Duy Xuyen District in Quang Nam Province is known as the land of festivals. Duy Xuyen starts the year with Lady Chiem Son Festival on February 6, Lady Thu Bon Festival on March 7 and 8 and wrap up with a ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of My Son being UNESCO. Lady Thu Bon Festival, the main festival in Duy Xuyen, takes place in Thu Bon Village, Duy Tan Commune from the 10th to the 12th day of the second lunar month, which fell on March 7 and 8. From early morning thousands...

Chinese artisans bring lanterns to Da Nang

Along with wonderful firework performances, Da Nang people and tourists will have a chance to enjoy lanterns made by Chinese artisans in a lantern festival named “The variation of colours”. The exhibition will open on March 25 at the Da Nang Water Park, introducing 34 groups of lanterns to celebrate the 34th Liberation Day of Da Nang. To prepare for this event, Chinese artisans have been working for over ten days in Da Nang. They brought materials from China to Da Nang. ...

Cau Ngu Festival and tourist cultural week to open in Phan Thiet

Local authorities in the central coastal city of Phan Thiet have approved a Cau Ngu (Fish Prayer) Festival and a tourist cultural week themed "Mua ve bien goi" (sea calls season back). The two festivals will take place concurrently from May 13 to 19 in the city center primarily along the Ca Ty River and at Van Thuy Tu Temple, a national cultural site containing some 100 sets of whale bones including the largest whale bones in Vietnam. The 2009 Cau Ngu Festival will also coincide...

Joining int’l firework festival in Danang

Danang International Firework Competition 2009 will take place in the central coastal city of Danang on March 27 and 28 with participation of Spain, Australia, China, the Philippines and the home team Vietnam. Saigontourist is offering a three-day tour to the firework festival as well as other attractions...

Ninh Binh holds Hoa Lu ancient capital festival

Hoa Ly District in the northern province of Ninh Binh held the ancient capital of Hoa Lu (first capital of Vietnam's feudal era from 968 to 1010) festival on Tuesday, attracting many locals and tourists, the Vietnam News Agency reports. From early morning, people flocked to Truong Yen Commune to worship the historical relics of the Le and Dinh dynasties. Dam Viet Nhi, chairman of the district's People's Committee, said that this was the largest and most important festival of the province...

Institute of Int’l Education hosts photo competition

The Institute of International Education-Vietnam, in cooperation with the U.S Consulate and Thanh Nien Daily News, is holding a photo and essay competition, ‘The Environment through the eyes of Vietnamese students,’ this month. The competition is open to all Vietnamese full-time university/college students. It is an outlet and opportunity for photographers to capture different aspects of the environment and to write about those issues in English. Photographs must have been taken...

Hanoi to host 3rd cherry blossom festival

The third cherry blossom festival in Vietnam will be held at Quan Ngua Sport Complex on April 10-12 to celebrate the 999th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi. 600 large branches of cherry blossoms will be carried by air from Japan to Hanoi on April 9 and will be placed in the main area of the festival. Apart from uniting these branches into 4 big trees, the organising board will also put up 7 cherry trees made of skill. The parade of dancing Yosakoi, which is most exciting,...

Show hits Australian gallery with a bang

An art exhibition on the American War in Viet Nam, Nam Bang, has opened at Casulapower House Arts Centre in Sydney, Australia, and will run through June 21. The international exhibition will feature 25 artists from the US, Australia, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Viet Nam, many of them are veterans. About 50 works from diverse genres such as painting, sculpture, installation art, videos and performance art are on display. Le Tri Dung, the only Vietnamese...

Bac Ha horse races to be held in May

The annual Bac Ha horse race is scheduled to take place in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on May 30, with 180 horses running. Pham Xuan, deputy director of the Lao Cai provincial Department for Culture, Sports and Tourism said that the jockeys taking part in the competition must be male, aged between 18-40 and come from Lao Cai, Yen Bai, Ha Giang, Lai Chau, Dien Bien or Son La provinces. The jockeys will show their skills at the 1,500-m racecourse during both individual...

Hang races away with 1,500m title

Asian champion Truong Thanh Hang won the 1,500m final at the Thailand Open Track and Field Championship on Monday in Bangkok's Thammasat Stadium. No sweat: Asian champion Truong Thanh Hang won gold for Viet Nam at the Thailand Open Track and Field Championship on Monday at Bangkok's Thammasat Stadium.Hang, who is also the Southeast Asian Games defending champion, was challenged by Than Tone Khin Myo Aung, of Myanmar, and N A Dilrukshi, of Sri Lanka. But the Vietnamese representative...

2009 national football tournament kicks off

document.all('IDM_Category_'.concat(1861)).style.display=''; VietNamNet Bridge - The 2009 national football tournament (second class) will take place from June 16 to 26, drawing the participation of 18 squads nationwide. This was announced at a meeting of the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) in Hanoi on April 28. Accordingly, participating teams will be divided into 3 groups, which will compete in a round robin format. The top two teams from each group will be given a chance to compete in...

National squad to have 12 rookies

VietNamNet Bridge – The chief coach of the national football squad Henrique Calisto will call 12 new players up to the national squad. Dinh Hoang La, a new member of the national squad. The names of the 25 footballers who will be called up to the national squad to prepare for the friendly match against Greek Olympiakos will be made public at 4pm, April 28. However, according to VietNamNet sources, there will be 12 new faces compared to the roster for the AFF Cup 2008. ...

Gong wins stage, grabs yellow jersey

VietNamNet Bridge – South Korean Gong Hyo-suk rode like the wind yesterday to steal the yellow jersey in the sixth stage of the HCM City Television Cycling Tournament from Phan Rang to Da Lat City. Gong led going through the decisive Ngoan Muc and Prenn passes in the 119km stage and eventually crossed...

SPORTS IN BRIEF 28/4

Calisto named ambassador of Zorok beer in Viet Nam Portuguese coach Henrique Calisto.Portuguese coach Henrique Calisto has been named ambassador for Zorok beer in Viet Nam. Calisto, who helped Viet Nam win the ASEAN Football Federation Cup in December, signed a one-year contract with SABMiIIer Viet Nam earlier this month. The Portuguese coach will prepare the U-23 team for December's Southeast Asian Games in Laos and the national team for next year's AFF Cup. The 56-year-old said he would...

Ha Long Bay festival kicks off

VietNamNet Bridge - The opening ceremony of the 2009 Ha Long Bay Tourism Festival was held in Bai Chay tourism area and Ha Long city center on April 25. This year’s annual festival is dedicated to the sea, land and sky. The festival is a massive cultural and sports event in order to highlight Quang Ninh Province’s beauty and geological wonders and Ha Long Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. After the opening ceremony, traditional performers walked in procession along the streets of Ha Long....

A bit on the side

When summer arrives people push the oily and fatty foods to one side. But what should take their place? Well, there are plenty of options, but none of them are complete without pickled eggplant, says Minh Quang. One of my favourite summer dishes is canh cua mong toi, a crab soup that my grandmother used to cook. It’s just one of many good soups made in Vietnam, but its deliciousness does not stand out unless it’s eaten along with ca muoi or pickled eggplant. For a long time, ca muoi has...

Bring home the unique flavours of Vietnam

Cha ca La Vong (photo: studios-jp.com) VietNamNet - Cha Ca La Vong, the oldest continuously operating restaurant in Hanoi, Vietnam, serves one dish. It's so well known that customers wait in line in a narrow street. Customers have to climb narrow, uneven stairs to a small room with a low ceiling and sit cafeteria-style on folding chairs pulled up to Formica tables. The payoff is a delicious fish, marinated and fried in oil with fresh greens. Patrons help themselves to the fish...

Toba Hirohide's latest challenge

Lau 1000°C is a new restaurant, which Japanese expatriate Toba Hirohide has opened on Le Quy Don Street in HCMC's District 3. A winding gray stone staircase from the eatery-crowded street leads up to the hot pot and grill restaurant. Chefs prepare hot pots for diners at Lau 1000°C. The Vietnamese word "lau" means hot pot in English. But the restaurant serves not only Vietnamese and Japanese hot pots but also other dishes of the two countries to cash in on the increasing number of middle-class...

Introducing Banh khuc

Banh khuc is a traditional cake of Vietnam. It’s a rice ball made from glutinous rice, green bean, pork, spices and, most importantly, cudweed (khuc). Cudweed grows during lunar January and February, when the drizzling rain lasts all day, and it can be found along the edges of rice fields. There are two kinds: nep and te. The latter is more flexible and fragrant and is preferred for making the cake. First, the cudweed is washed, ground and then mixed with husked glutinous rice. Green beans,...

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