A youth library was inaugurated at the headquarters of Vietnam’s Trade Office in Russia on December 8, expected to serve as a cultural and spiritual hub for Vietnamese students in the host country.

VOV.VN - Both local residents and foreigners alike flocked to the 2024 international food festival held on December 7 and December 8 in Hanoi to sample delicacies and enjoy unique performances from over 60 countries and territories around the world.

"Breakthrough cultural industry with programmes of great reputation, attraction and social effect" is one of 15 typical events of the culture, sports and tourism industry in 2024.

VOV.VN - A delegation of the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee led by its member and Chairman of the NA Committee for Culture and Education Nguyen Dac Vinh paid a working visit to Belgium from December 4-7, with a view to fostering and deepening the bilateral friendship.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, and President and CEO of NVIDIA Jensen Huang went for a tour around Hanoi on December 5 night to explore the life, culture and tourism in the capital city.

VOV.VN - The Miss Culture International Friendship 2025 beauty pageant running as part of the annual Xuân Quê Hương (Homeland Spring) programme for overseas Vietnamese has been launched.

VOV.VN - UNESCO has recently recognized the Ba Chua Xu (Holy Mother of the Realm) Festival on Mount Sam in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, raising the total number of the country’s such UNESCO-recognised intangible elements to 16.

A cultural and art exchange between Lam Dong province's Da Lat city and Chuncheon city of the Republic of Korea (RoK)'s Gangwon province took place in the Vietnamese Central Highlands locality on December 4.

VOV.VN - The Ba Chua Xu (Holy Mother of the Realm) Festival on Mount Sam in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang was officially recognised by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, at the 19th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Paraguay on December 4.

VOV.VN - The Embassy of Vietnam has joined with nearly 50 foreign missions and international organisations and companies at the international charity fair PFOWA Bazaar 2024 in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.