VOV.VN - The Hanoi VPBank International Marathon (VPIM) 2023, an annual international sporting event held in the capital, is scheduled to take place on October 8 and attract the participation of around 10,000 local and foreign runners.

VOV.VN - Streets throughout the capital have been adorned with national flags and banners, creating a joyful atmosphere across the city to mark the 68th anniversary of Hanoi’s liberation which occurred on October 10, 1954.

VOV.VN - The Hoa Phuong Do (Red Flamboyant Flower) Festival 2022 officially opened in the northern port city of Hai Phong on May 13 to mark 67 years of the city’s Liberation Day.

VOV.VN - The Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations (HUFO) hosted a get-together on January 5 to mark Cuba’s 63rd Liberation Day (January 1).

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on December 31 sent congratulatory messages to Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee, and President of Cuba on his country’s Liberation Day (January 1).

VOV.VN - The Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum is poised to hold an online painting exhibition on October 8 to mark the occasion of the 67th anniversary of Hanoi Liberation Day, which originally took place on October 10, 1954.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City has decided to give a fine to those who do not don face masks in public places, starting on April 27, in an effort to nip in a bud a possible resurgence of a new coronavirus outbreak in the community.

An exhibition of 22 paintings in a collection of works by Vietnamese artists titled “Houei” (Prosperity) of Japanese collector Itoh Toyokichi opened in the central city on March 29, on the occasion of the 46 years of the liberation day of Da Nang city (March 29).

VOV.VN - The ninth iteration of the Hanoi Gift Show opened on October 15 in the capital with 5,200 foreign importers and customers from 45 countries and territories globally taking part in the event.

VOV.VN - A festival featuring thousands of lotus-shaped lanterns took place at Tran Quoc pagoda on October 9 in Hanoi to mark 1,010 years of Thang Long-Hanoi, along with celebrations for the 66th anniversary of Hanoi Liberation Day.