Only ritual ceremonies will be held at the Hung Kings Temple Festival in the northern province of Phu Tho this year due to COVID-19, heard a meeting of local authorities on February 23.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has recognised the annual Quan The Am (Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva) Festival in the central city of Da Nang’s Ngu Hanh Son district as National Intangible Heritage.

Vietnamese actress Hoang Thi Bich Phuong has won the best actress award at the 2021 Paris International Film Festival for her role in “Invisible Love” (Tinh yeu vo hinh).

VOV.VN - The Yen Tu spring festival 2021, a much-awaited ritual of Buddhists, was launched on February 21 in the northern border province of Quang Ninh amid tight anti-coronavirus measures.

The launching ceremony of a tree-planting festival on the New Year of Ox was held in Hanoi on February 21 as part of this year’s efforts in response to the Government’s programme on planting 1 billion trees to 2025.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has requested that localities nationwide cancel all spring festivals in order to prevent mass gatherings, therefore minimising the potential spread of the COVID-19 pandemic following the Lunar New Year (Tet).

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended the launch of a tree-planting festival on February 20 in the south-central province of Phu Yen to mark the start of the Lunar New Year and to launch activities aimed at planting one billion trees, as initiated by the Government chief.

The 2021 Saigon Urban Arts, the first international street art project of its kind in Vietnam, is scheduled to begin this April.

VOV.VN - Immediately after the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) impacting many localities, domestic enterprises have strived to implement the year’s production plan whilst ensuring the strict implementation of the Prime Minister’s directive regarding pandemic prevention and control.

VOV.VN - The tugging rituals and folk games were honored by UNESCO in 2015 as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity, a multi-national project of Vietnam, the Republic of Korea, Cambodia, and the Philippines, the first multi-national project ever recognized by UNESCO.