A celebration to mark the traditional New Year festival of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand was held in Ho Chi Minh City on April 11.

The temple worshipping Nhồi Hoa Princess located at Phuong Mountain in Son Lai commune of Ninh Binh province’s Nho Quan district has been a rare relic site commemorating a Laotian Princess who died in Vietnam and has been deified and worshiped in the country.

Vietnam Ancestral Global Day 2019 will be celebrated in five countries, including Laos, Thailand, Japan, Canada and Poland.

A ceremony was held in Thach Ban ward, Hanoi’s Long Bien district on April 7 to receive a certificate of UNESCO recognition of the sitting tug-of-war games and rituals at local Tran Vu temple as part of the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Over 200 overseas Vietnamese living in UdonThani province and adjacent areas in Thailand were brought together at a ceremony on April 7 to commemorate the death anniversary of the Hùng Kings, the legendary founders of the Vietnamese nation.

The Vietnamese Buddhist Association in the Republic of Korea (RoK) held a requiem at Phung An pagoda in Seoul on April 7 to pray for national peace and prosperity in Vietnam.

The death anniversary of the Hùng Kings, the legendary founders of Vietnam, will be observed in the Lao capital city of Vientiane on April 5-6.

Head of Vietnam’s Government Committee for Religious Affairs Vũ Chiến Thắng said he wishes that the Cambodian Ministry of Cults and Religion would create favorable conditions for overseas Vietnamese following Buddhism and Caodaism in the country to join religious activities.

A ceremony was held in Maputo, capital city of Mozambique, on April 1 to hand over aid of Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) Central Committee, Buddhist followers and Overseas Vietnamese community in Mozambique to victims of cyclone Idai, which hit the country’ central region in March.

The Indian Business Chamber in Vietnam will organize the Festival of Colors - HOLI 2019, one of the biggest Indian festivals, at Kinder Park in Tay Ho District, Hanoi on April 7, expecting to bring the true Indian cultural spirit to the capital city.

Rows of wooden mortuary tablets inscribed with names line an altar at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo, silent testimony to Vietnamese people who died after coming to Japan to work or study.

Tran Quoc Pagoda in Hanoi has been listed by UK travel website wanderlust.co.uk among ten incredibly beautiful pagodas from around the world.

A seminar on ancient books and Han Chinese and Vietnamese Nôm scripts was held on March 23 in Da Nang city.

Vietnam will soon officially ask the UNESCO to consider putting the country’s Xoe Thai dance in the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity and Cham pottery making art among Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding.

The 2018 annual human rights report of the US Department of State does not reflect the true situation in Vietnam, said the Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Lê Thị Thu Hằng in response to reporters’ queries during a regular press conference in Hanoi on March 14.