The Tay in the northwestern mountain region celebrate the New Rice Festival on the 9th or 10th lunar month to thank genies for blessing them with a bumper crop.

 Dam Sen Park in HCM City, operated by Phuthotourist, will host a wide range of entertainment events during the Lunar New Year holiday (Tet), thus becoming a great entertainment destination for revelers in the city to celebrate the Year of the Pig.

 Pho Ong Do, a street lined with calligraphers’ stands, has been opened on Pham Ngoc Thach Street in District 1, HCM City, becoming a new destination for locals and tourists ahead of Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival.

 Pig-related paraphernalia originating from the kilns of Bat Trang Village and around the world are on display at an exhibition entitled ‘My Zodiac Animal – Prosperous Pig’.

 An exhibition to mark the 10th year anniversary of quan họ (love duet singing) receiving the title of intangible cultural heritage of humanity from UNESCO is opening in the northern province of Bac Ninh.

 “The Parting of the Plastic Sea” art installation opened on Friday in the atrium of the Estella Place retail mall in HCM City’s District 2.

 Hanoi’s Old Quarter will offer opportunities to visitors to experience Vietnamese traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) with an array of cultural activities from January 25 to February 24.

 Various activities will be held across the northern province of Bac Ninh from February 13 to 28 in a festival marking 10 years since the Quan ho Bac Ninh folk songs became part of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

 Three major theatre festivals, along with a variety of related activities, will be held in 2019, according to the Vietnam Stage Artists Association (VSAA) Chairman Le Tien Tho. 

 Making French cultural tourism a worldwide experience is what the exhibition France eMotion – The Animated Journey is aiming to do at L’Espace in Hanoi.

 The original area of Huong Son Landscape Complex – home to 21 pagodas and dozens of grottoes in local mountains of My Duc District, Hanoi – will remain unchanged amidst the development of tourism infrastructure.

 As the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival approaches, pig-themed paintings are becoming increasingly popular and welcomed by Vietnamese buyers. 

 A painting exhibition took place in the central city of Da Nang on January 22 to welcome for the 2019 Lunar New Year-the Year of the Pig.

 Huong Pagoda festival in the outskirts of Hanoi is expected to lure around 1.5 million visitors this year.

 The Spring Festival 2019 will take place at the Vietnam Exhibition Centre for Culture and Arts, No.2 Hoa Lu street, Hanoi from January 25-28, honouring the traditional culture of Vietnam.

 Hang Luoc Flower Market in Hanoi’s Old Quarter has been opened for the Tet holiday. 

A mural, depicting Sri Lanka's most stunning natural and cultural beauty, was unveiled on January 22 on Hanoi’s Ceramic Road. 

 H’Hen Nie has been named as the only Vietnamese representative among the top 20 of Miss Grand Slam as selected by Global Beauties.

 A series of cultural activities reproducing traditional characteristics of Tet (Lunar New Year) festival in Hanoi will be held in the Hanoi Old Quarter, Hoan Kiem District, from January 25 to February 24.

‘Then’ singing is a unique folk art practiced by Tay and Nung ethnic groups in north-eastern localities, including Lang Son province.