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2011 Tour de France winner and 2009 Road Cycling World Champion Cadel Evans will compete in the Coupe De Hue Gran Fondo 2019 in Hue (Photo: cyclingnews.com) Australia’s Evans will race with nearly 1,000 other cyclists, including 125 foreign racers from 24 countries such as Javier Sardá of Spain and Chris Butler of the US, the event’s organising board has announced. … [Read more...] about Former Tour de France champion to race in Vietnam

Vietnamese women showcase "ao dai" (traditional long gown) at the opening ceremony of the Metz International Fair on September 27, 2019.   Vietnam, as an honorable guest, will hold a roundtable discussion on trade promotion with France on October 4. Nghiem Xuan Dong, Vice Director of the Vietnamese Cultural Center in France, said “Vietnamese artists are performing Cheo (traditional opera) and water puppet at the fair. Other activities to showcase Vietnamese culture include film screenings, an exhibit of paintings by famous Hanoi painters, and demonstrations of ‘to he’ (toy figurines made from rice powder) and calligraphy.” The International Fair of Metz is one of three largest annual fairs in France, bringing together thousands of companies and trademarks of Grand-Est, an administrative region in northeastern France resided by three million people. Jean Luc Bohl, the first Vice President of the Grand-Est region said Vietnam was invited to this … [Read more...] about Vietnamese culture promoted in France

An event called "Vietnam Cuisine Day in France" will be held in France’s Perpignan city on October 17-18 by the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry and the Vietnamese Embassy in France. Poster of the event. Vietnamese food is known worldwide for its elegant features. As part of the cultural diplomacy, one of the three pillars of Vietnam’s modern diplomacy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has coordinated with various agencies at home and abroad to promote Vietnam’s culture to the world. Cuisine is an important part of Vietnamese culture and the upcoming event in the city of Perpignan, France will bring Vietnamese food to French people. The main contents of the program include: Performing, introducing the essence of Vietnamese cuisine; a symposium introducing UNESCO heritage sites in Vietnamese and Vietnamese culinary arts; an exhibition of eight UNESCO heritage sites in Vietnam and some quintessential Vietnamese culinary products; an exchange of Vietnamese - French … [Read more...] about Vietnamese cuisine to be introduced in France

Pho - popular food in Vietnam (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - A Vietnamese Cuisine Day in France will be held in Perpignan, France this week. This is the first event co-organised by the Foreign Ministry’s Culture Diplomacy, UNESCO and the Vietnam Chefs’ Association in the area. Nguyen Thuong Quan, chairman of the association, said there will be around 500 guests representing politics, enterprises involving cuisine, tourism, hotels, French chefs, along with members of the Vietnamese community in France and other European countries. The event will feature art performances and cooking featuring delicacies from three regions. A workshop on eight UNESCO recognised heritages in Vietnam and Vietnamese culinary art will also take place. “Five chefs from Vietnam, who will cook dishes of different regions, will show off their talent at the event,” Quan said. “Some will be making decorative dishes using vegetables, roots and fruits. We would like to tell a … [Read more...] about Vietnamese cuisine promoted in France

Vietnam and France on September 25 issued a Joint Statement on their Strategic Partnership on the occasion of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s official visit to France from September 24-26.  Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault signed the Joint Statement on Vietnam-France Strategic Partnership. The joint statement outlines the orientations and goals for the strategic partnership, with the aim to enhance bilateral cooperation in the fields of politics-diplomacy, national defence-security, economics-trade and investment, development, and culture-education-training-scientific research-law-justice. In the political-diplomatic arena, France and Vietnam will increase discussions to promote dialogue on bilateral cooperation and regional and international issues of mutual concerns through the mechanisms of regular high-ranking meetings and contacts, and strategic dialogues between the ministries of Foreign Affairs and … [Read more...] about Vietnam, France issue Joint Statement