VOV.VN - The 30th Vietnam International Medical and Pharmaceutical Exhibition (Medi-pharm Expo 2023) opened on May 10 at the Friendship Cultural Palace in Hanoi.

The 42nd UOB Southeast Asian Painting of the Year competition (national round) was kicked off in Hanoi on May 9.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Embassy and Vietnamese community in Sri Lanka has attended the National Vesak Festival, with the event recently being held in the capital city of Colombo.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese expatriates in the Republic of Korea (RoK) converged on Uijeongbu, a north-western city in the RoK, on May 7 for a cultural exchange as part of activities to celebrate 31 years of diplomatic ties between the two countries.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Embassy in Mongolia introduced the nation’s lands and traditional culture to international friends at the Spotlight International Art 2023 held in Ulaanbaatar on May 7.

School students from central Da Nang City will join a cultural exchange programme in Uiwang City, Gyeonggi, the Republic of Korea in October following a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on co-operation and friendship signed between the city’s Hai Chau district and Uiwang City.

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung held a working session with Cambodian Minister of Tourism Thong Khon in Phnom Penh on May 6 to review bilateral collaboration in terms of delegation exchange and tourism promotion.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese culture, cuisine, and heritage have been highlighted at an event held in Paris on May 3, drawing the participation of more than 120 representatives from UNESCO and diplomatic missions to UNESCO.

VOV.VN - In December, 2017, UNESCO inscribed Xoan singing, a Vietnamese folk music genre in Phu Tho province, on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

VOV.VN - The worship of the Hung Kings in Phu Tho province was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity at a UNESCO meeting in Paris on December 6, 2012.