The ethnic Khmer people in the Cuu Long (Mekong)
Delta will celebrate Ooc-om-bok Festival, one of their most important
traditional festivals, on November 25-26.
Situated in a narrow alley on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street in Hoi An
City, there stands a house built in 1806 that sheltered 14 generations
of former headmasters of the Royal Army, Nguyen Tuong Van''s (1774-1822)
family.
The annual pilgrim festival worshipping Hung Kings, ancestorsof the Vietnamese people, will be held between April 13 and 19 in the northern province of Phu Tho.
The unique custom of worshipping the Hung Kings
practised nationwide has been officially recognised as an intangible
piece of the cultural heritage of humanity by UNESCO at the seventh
session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of
Intangible Cultural Heritage in Paris yesterday.
An animal skeleton found at Nam Giao worshipping
platform in central Thanh Hoa Province is believed to be the first such
discovery in the history of archaeology in Viet Nam.
Elderly fisherman Le Van Le has never failed to
attend the fish-worshipping festival held every year on the 16th day of
the first lunar month in Thanh Khe village in central Da Nang City.
