NDO – The restoration of monuments has always been considered a very specific profession. Accordingly, architect Pham Thanh Quang, former deputy director of the Institute for the Conservation of Monuments (ICM), claims the methods of the past hard times are suitable for specific activities to preserve best cultural values that have existed over time. 

NDO/VNA – Close to 100 reporters in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City will vote online for the 15th edition of the Devotion Music Awards run by Vietnam News Agency’s Sport & Culture newspaper, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the organising board said on March 19. 

NDO - The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has announced the winners of the propaganda painting contest for the VIetnam's ASEAN Chairmanship Year 2020. 

NDO – Around 100 lacquer paintings by 100 famous Vietnamese painters of many generations are being showcased at an exhibition in Hanoi. 

NDO – An exhibition, themed “Hanoi – Faith and Aspiration to Rise”, opened at the Hanoi Museum on March 23, as part of activities marking the 90th founding anniversary of the Hanoi municipal Party Committee (March 17, 1930-2020). 

NDO – Previously serving as Vietnamese Ambassador to Iran, Syria and Iraq, and now working as the Editor-in-chief of the Foreign Affairs Magazine under the Party Committee’s Commission for External Relations, Ambassador Nguyen Hong Thach has hosted many practical cultural diplomacy activities. 

NDO – A programme of events will be held at Ho Chi Minh City’s Book Street (Nguyen Van Binh Street, District 1) from March 6 until the end of this month to honour the good values which women have brought to life. 

NDO – A wide variety of practical activities will be held nationwide within 2020 in recognition of the Ao Dai (traditional Vietnamese long dress) as a national intangible cultural heritage. 

NDO – Over the past two months, roads along the banks of Red River, which is a trash area in Phuc Tan Ward, Hoan Kiem District in Hanoi, have been decorated with outdoor artworks made from recycled materials. The artworks were produced by a group of voluntary painters under a project launched by Hoan Kiem District People’s Committee to enliven the riverbank site under Long Bien Bridge. 

NDO – An exhibition featuring works by 20 leading painters in Vietnamese fine arts will be held in April at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum. 

NDO – The experimental music project, entitled “Shapes of music”, will officially be launched by the Dom Dom (Firefly) Experimental Music and Arts Centre on March 1. 

NDO/VNA – Vietnamese artists in recent years have been investing in web dramas which have attracted tens of millions of views on YouTube. 

NDO/VNA – Sky House by architect Nguyen Hoang Manh has won a Realised Award at the 33rd World Architecture Community Awards in London. 

NDO – The fifth National Young Fine Arts Festival will be held in Hanoi in June, for young Vietnamese artists aged between 18 and 35.