Vietnam-Japan Festival lures 300,000 Minh Phong More than 300,000 people, including locals and Japanese, visited the three-day Vietnam-Japan Festival 2018 which ended on Sunday at the September 23 Park in District 1, HCMC. Tsutomu Takebe, special advisor to the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance and head of the organizing board, said the fifth festival was held at a special time when the two countries are celebrating the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations (1973-2018). Since its debut in 2014, the festival has drawn the attention of Vietnamese people and the Japanese community, and contributed to fostering cultural exchange and tourism cooperation between Vietnam and Japan, he added. A range of entertainment and cultural activities will be held throughout the year to mark the remarkable milestone of bilateral ties, Takebe added. The festival featured a drum show, Bon-Odori dance performance, a cosplay fashion show, food booths and sporting activities. HCMC chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong said the long-standing friendship and relationship between Vietnam and Japan can be seen in various fields like economy, politics, education, science and technology. Japan is now the sixth largest foreign investor in HCMC with around 1,000 valid projects worth US$4 billion and also the fourth largest visitor-generating market for the city. Phong said he hopes the festival will further deepen ties between Vietnam and Japan in the years to come. Tran Thi My Duyen, a second-year student of Japanese studies at the HCMC University Social Sciences and Humanities, told the Daily on Saturday that this is… [Read full story]
Hue Festival lures 2.4 million tourists The Saigon Times Daily Artists from HCMC-based Bong Sen Theater Traditional Music Song & Dance perform at the closing ceremony of the 8th biennial Hue Festival last Sunday in Hue City. The ceremony highlighted the romantic beauty of the Huong River and the cultural traits of Hue, with art troupes from Vietnam National Academy of Music as well as Singapore, the Philippines and Malaysia taking part. Ngo Hoa, vice chairman of Thua Thien-Hue Province, head of the organizing committee of Hue Festival, said this year’s festival attracted over 2.4 million tourists. Especially, over 100,000…... [read more]
Old book festival lures huge crowd in town The Saigon Times Daily A three-day festival featuring old books at September 23 Park in District 1, HCMC attracted a lot of book enthusiasts, reports Vietnamplus. Visitors could browse for favorite books published by old and new publishing houses in the country, including Ha Than, Vi Dan, Khai Vinh, Momo Books, Kim Dong Publishing House and Saigon Books. They also had a chance to join roundtables and exhibitions on an old Saigon via the old language of the city, the hobby to collect old books, how to evaluate old books; and literature…... [read more]
Travellers Notes (03-03-2007) Pagoda festival lures pilgrims Hunderds of thousands of visitors, most of them Budhhist pilgrims, flocked to Huong Son Mountain in the northern province of Ha Tay for the three-month Huong Pagoda Festival which kicked off on the sixth day of the first lunar month (February 22). Built in the late 17th century, Huong Pagoda is located in My Duc District at a historic site that has a large number of pagodas, temples and caverns filled with marvelous kinds of stalactiles, about 60km from Ha Noi. It lies in Huong Tich cavern that has the autograph of Lord…... [read more]
Helmet awareness festival lures 1,000 students Do Phuong By Do Phuong – The Saigon Times Daily Around 1,000 school children joined the “I love wearing helmets” festival at Quoi Xuan Elementary School in HCMC’s District 12 last week. The event was part of a project to provide helmets for children initiated by the Asia Injury Prevention Foundation (AIP) with the sponsorship of the UPS Foundation. Participants to the event joined a painting exhibition titled “I love helmets” and art performances and games to raise children’s awareness on traffic safety and use of standard helmets. In the school year 2014-2015, students…... [read more]
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