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Thua Thien-Hue (VNA) – The Hue Festival 2020 will open on August 28 this year instead of early April as previously planned due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the festival organising board said on February 20. The biennial festival was initially slated for April 1-6. Phan Ngoc Tho, Chairman of the Thua Thien-Hue provincial People’s Committee and head of the organising board, said that the festival will take place on six days to September 3. The organising board continues to complete the festival’s programmes to serve tourists to the cultural event of the central province. The Hue Festival 2018 was held with the theme: ‘Cultural Heritage with Integration and Development: Hue - One Destination, Five World Heritages’. It attracted the participation of nearly 1,400 artists and professional actors including 388 from 24 international art troupes and nearly 1,000 from across the country. Thousands of amateur artists also took part in … [Read more...] about Hue Festival 2020 to open on August 28

Hanoi (VNA) – The national women’s team of Vietnam have hope of competing at the Asian Cup following the Asian Football Confederation (AFC)’s Women's Football Committee decision to expand the tournament in 2022. The 2022 AFC event will have 12 teams instead of eight, giving Vietnam a bigger chance to take part in the event. The AFC’s decision to increase the number of teams follows FIFA's decision to raise the number of teams participating in the FIFA Women’s World Cup from 24 to 32 teams in 2023. At that time, Asia will have eight slots to compete in the world’s biggest football event, and also opens the door for Vietnam after missing out in 2015 when they lost a qualifying play-off match 2-1 to Thailand. On February 19, India was chosen to host the AFC Women's Asian Cup 2022. Teams will play in three groups of four. The matches will take place in Navi Mumbai, … [Read more...] about Vietnam female footballers have more chance to compete in Asian Cup

Vietnam has had confirmed 16 cases of whom 14 have recovered and been discharged. A 50-year-old Vietnamese man in the northern Vinh Phuc Province is still under treatment while a Vietnamese-American man in Saigon has recovered and is expected to be discharged on Friday afternoon. … [Read more...] about Da Nang cancels annual fireworks festival amid coronavirus fears

COVID-19: Travel safety standards built to revive tourism sector Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thien has stressed the need to develop a set of travel safety standards to develop the tourism sector, which has suffered since the outbreak of COVID-19. … [Read more...] about Covid-19 could lead to restructuring of Vietnam tourism industry

So far the Covid-19 epedemic has impacted on many sporting events worldwide. As of Friday, it has spread to 28 countries and territories, killed 2,247 people and infected 76,202. 18,221 people have recovered and 12,064 are still in dire straits. South Korea has confirmed the first imported case of novel coronavirus infection on Thursday. … [Read more...] about VnExpress Marathon Hue postponed over coronavirus epidemic