More than 3,500 singers performed Quan Ho folk songs at the opening of the Lim
Festival in the northern province of Bac Ninh's Tien Du District on Saturday
morning - the 13th day of the first lunar month.
A concert
commemorating the late musician Trinh Cong Son, one of Vietnam’s most famous and
beloved songwriter, will be held at the l'Espace French Cultural Centre in Hanoi
on February 28-29.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) have agreed to assist Vietnam in cancer control through IAEA’s Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy (PACT).
Vietnam’s total seafood output reached 5.3 million tonnes in 2011, representing a year-on-year increase of 4.4 percent, according to the Directorate of Fisheries.
On
January 7, a meeting of American and Vietnam
veterans who fought against each other was organized for filming by Foreign Press Center
(Ministry of Foreign Affairs) in Lang Vay, the battlefield of 44 years before.