A performance entitled “Trong com” (cylindrical drum) by Vietnam’s Le Ngoc Theatre has left a strong impression on audience at the International Drum and Dance Festival in Kuala Lumpur.

The 9th Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians in Hanoi adopted a statement highlighting the role of young people in accelerating the realisation of sustainable development goals through digital transformation and innovation, and promoted respect for cultural diversity in support of sustainable development at closing session of the event on September 16.

Cultural diversity plays an important role in fully realising human rights and basic freedom, enhancing the role and status of women in the society and creating social cohesion and harmony, and it is necessary to integrate cultural diversity into national and international development policies, said Bui Hoai Son, a permanent member of the National Assembly’s Committee of Culture and Education, on September 16.

Vietnamese cultural heritages and the image of a country of Vietnam with development, renovation and dynamism imbued with national identity were introduced to international friends during an event in Paris on May 3.

Vietnam has unique native diversity which is attractive to foreigners, Thai scholar Songrit Pongern said in an interview on Vietnamese culture with the Vietnam News Agency’s correspondents in Bangkok.

Embassies of ten ASEAN member states in Australia, including Vietnam, together have run an ‘ASEAN village’ space introducing their countries, peoples, cultures, and cuisines at the 25th National Multicultural Festival - Australia’s largest celebration of cultural diversity.

Vietnamese people will join other Asian-origin communities at the 16-day Sydney Lunar Festival in the Australian city to mark the coming Lunar New Year.

A visit to the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang, where the Kinh people and Khmer and Chinese ethnic groups live together, offers a glimpse of the locality’s diverse culture and religious life.

Belgian comic artist Dany and musician-singer Konoba will represent artists from the Wallonie-Bruxelles region at Hue Festival 2022, according to the Wallonie-Bruxelles delegation in Vietnam.

The art of Xoe dance of Thai ethnic people meets all of the five criteria set by UNESCO to be listed as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, according to the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. ​

President of the 41st session of the UNESCO General Conference Santiago Irazabal Mourao applauded Vietnam’s fifth-time election to the UNESCO Executive Board while talking about the outcomes of the session, which wrapped up on November 24.

Vietnamese-Belgian artist Thy Nguyen Truong Minh opened his solo exhibition in Brussels on October 4, displaying artworks depicting life in Vietnam.

The awards ceremony and exhibition of the Vietnam Photo Expression 2020 were held in Hanoi on November 25, with 28 photos showing the cultural diversity across Vietnam on display.

An art troupe of HCM City’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism joined more than 5,000 performers from 149 countries and international organisations at the 48th edition of the Chingay Parade, which opened in Singapore on January 31.

Embassies of member countries in the ASEAN Committee in Rome (ACR) celebrated the ASEAN Family Day on September 7.

A ceremony was held in the capital city of Hanoi on July 13 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its recognition as ‘City for Peace’ by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) (July 16).

About 30 ethnic minority groups from across Vietnam will show off their distinctive culture at Vietnam’s Ethnic Culture Day which is slated for April 19-22 in Hanoi, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Ho Chi Minh City, which is home to 437,000 people from 51 ethnic groups, has been carrying out a number of the Party and State’s ethnic affair policies to take good care of ethnic minority people as well as promote their cultural diversity.

Lai Chau is a mountainous border province in the northwest of Vietnam with more than 80 percent of its population being ethnic minorities, creating cultural diversity.

Vietnam has implemented a wide range of policies to preserve and promote cultural diversity among ethnic groups, considering it an extremely important factor to ensure peace and stability.