Clothes, furniture, handicrafts, and other consumer items will be on
sale at discounts of 30-70 per cent at a fair in HCM City''s District 1
on April 4-5.
The HCM City Department of Tourism and the Handicrafts and Wood
Industry Association of HCM City have instituted a handicrafts and gifts
design contest in which the theme is the city''s distinctive features.
Local experts in fine arts and culture are concerned about the
preservation of Vietnamese cultural identity in handicrafts and applied
arts in the era of globalisation.
Vietnamese people can feast their eyes on the beauty and highly
developed techniques of Japanese Tohoku handicrafts at an upcoming
exhibition in HCM City and Ha Noi.
As many as 60 coloured photos printed on glass by French photographer Leon Busy, featuring Ha Noi from 1914-17, will be displayed tonight at L''Espace, 24 Trang Tien Street.
Several big names of Russian chamber music will perform tonight to kick
off Days of Russian Culture. The performance also marks the official
visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the 96th anniversary of
Russia''s October Revolution.
The tradespeople behind many of the traditional goods sold in the Old
Quarter will give demonstrations of their handicrafts from tomorrow to
the end of August.
A series of festivals kicked off the tourism season over the past week
as the industry launched a fight back following news that the number of
international vistors to Viet Nam took a dip during the first four
months of the year.
Handicrafts and specialties of seven ethnic groups in the northern
highlands provinces will be featured in the Northern Highlands Market
festival, from Saturday to Wednesday at the Viet Nam Ethnic Groups
Culture - Tourism Village in the outskirts of Ha Noi.
A collection of more than 3,000 antiques belonging
to late Professor Duong Minh Thoi and his wife Ha Thi Ngoc was presented
to the public at the HCM City History Museum on Thursday.
