NDO—After three years, 10,000 copies of Ngan nam ao mu (A Thousand Years of Caps and Robes) by Tran Quang Duc have been sold—an impressive number for a history book. His friend, Nguyen Huu Su, is preparing to publish his book Lich su thu phap (History of Calligraphy). They are working on things they believe in.
NDO – After three years with many field trips to various regions and meetings with cultural researchers, over 20 first episodes of the project ‘Vietnamese Mother – Mother Goddess Worship religion’ have been finished, initially bringing a basic and general view of the values of this religion – an intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
NDO/VNA – How to protect and bring into play the values of folk culture of ethnic minority groups in Vietnam was discussed at a workshop held at the National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism in Hanoi on December 14.
NDO – Following more than one year of revivification this type of folk paintings has received the attention of the people, especially enthusiasts of traditional cultural values. Recently, Kim Hoang paintings and a number of wood-blocks of Kim Hoang paintings have been on display at a festival and an international workshop on woodcut paintings, as well as an exhibition on folk paintings printed from woodblocks, in the Republic of Korea (RoK).
NDO-The Phu Yen Provincial People’s Committee held a ceremony in Phu Yen province on September 22 to receive a certificate recognising “Lam Phu Lam” (Phu Lam storehouse) in Phu Lam ward of Tuy Hoa city as a national art-architectural site.
NDO - A symposium on the formation and development of Cai Luong (reformed theatre) art in Vietnam over the past 100 years was held in Ho Chi Minh City on April 28.
NDO/VNA – An exhibition on Vietnam’s sea and island culture heritages opened on June 9 in Tam Ky city as part of the 6th Quang Nam Heritage Festival 2017.
NDO - As the art of xoan singing is soon to be lifted from the UNESCO list of cultural heritage in need of urgent safeguarding, Dr Le Thi Minh Ly from the National Cultural Heritage Centre expressed her joy at the achievements Vietnam has made over the past year in protecting cultural heritages.
NDO—Nhan Dan recently published a Vietnamese-language story calling for an immediate end to the organisation of parties in the caverns at Ha Long Bay, which revealed typical shortcomings in the management of World Heritage Sites in Vietnam. But we must look no further than some limitations of the current management model to uncover the main cause of such confusion.
