Khmer people’s new year festival lasts three days and four days in leap years. Each of these days has its own name. Apart from worshipping the Buddha, Khmer people believe that every year the heaven sends a god called Tevoda to the earth to look after human beings and their life. At the end of [...]

Time: The 30th day of the twelfth lunar month of the previous year to the3rd day of the first lunar month of the new year. Place: Nation-wide. Objects of worship: grandparents and ancestors. Participator: The biggest national festival that attracts to people through the country. Characteristics: – Nice clothes, or traditional costumes. – Ritual of ancestral worshipping [...]

Every march, when the climate is dry and trees lack water, Lo Lo ethnic people in Meo Vac, Ha Giang province rely on a rain praying festival. With typical rituals, the festival, handed down from generation to generation, is also an opportunity to meet one another. The rain praying festival is often held on lunar [...]

Vietnamese Language Vietnam LanguageVietnamese (tiếng Việt, or less commonly Việt ngữ), formerly known under French colonization as Annamese (see Annam), is the national and official language of Vietnam.

The Nam Giao offering ritual, part of the Hue Festival 2010, took place on Nam Giao esplanade in the central city of Hue on the June 9 evening.

The Thang Long Royal Citadel has been recognised as a world cultural heritage for its long-lasting cultural history, the continuity of the citadel as a power centre and the variety of relics it contains.

The capital city will soon begin counting down the days until the 1,000th anniversary of its founding in 1010 with the name Thang Long. “To help residents and visitors count, a giant digital clock will be put in place on January 13, said Pham Quang Long, director of the Ha Noi Department of Culture and [...]

A flower festival will be held in the relic site of the Thang Long Royal Citadel in Hanoi to usher in the capital city’s 1,000th birthday from May 1 to October 30. At a press briefing on April 28 in Hanoi, the organising board said that the festival is part of the “Space of Arts” [...]

Vietnam’s first-ever Gift Festival will be held from November 17-21 in the southern province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau. The above announcement came from Deputy Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Ho Van Nien on April 14. The event will feature over 300 stalls,

French artistes will play a substantial part in the Hue Festival 2010, which will take place in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue from June 5-13. Ngo Hoa, Deputy Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and Head of the festival’s organising board, said that one theatre group from the region of Poitou-Charentes will entertain visitors [...]