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The second puppetry festival will take place on HCM City’s Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street on December 28-29, with the aim of creating a cultural exchange site for local residents on the occasion of the New Year and honouring  traditional Vietnamese puppertry art. Artists at a meeting introducing the Vietnam Puppetry Festival to be held on December 28-29 in HCM City. — VNS Photo Thu Ngan The festival, organised following the success of the first festival last year, is expected to attract tens of thousands of people living in HCM City and neighbouring provinces. Themed Green Dream, it will gather artists from puppetry theatres from all over the country who will perform shows on two nights. A variety of activities are expected to bring the art of puppetry closer to the general public and foreign tourists, contributing to preserving and promoting the cultural value of the unique traditional art form. The spotlight of the event will be a march at nights. Joining the … [Read more...] about Vietnam Puppetry Festival to open in HCM City

HCM City has planned to hold fireworks displays to welcome the coming New Year. The high-range fireworks will be organised at Saigon River’s tunnel area in District 2 and Landmark 81 Building in Binh Thanh District while the low-range show will be at Dam Sen Cultural Park in District 11. HCM City has planned to hold fireworks displays to welcome the coming New Year The activities will last for 15 minutes on January 1, 2020. Municipal authorities have also assigned a local firm to design and install the lighting system to mark the New Year and Tet Holiday on some major streets such as Nguyen Van Troi, Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, Le Duan, Nguyen Hue, Dong Khoi and Cach Mang Thang Tam. The lighting decoration will be from December 12 to March 20, next year. … [Read more...] about Fireworks scheduled for HCM City New Year

A South Korean man was arrested on Monday at HCM City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport with more than 400 second-hand mobile phones.  The airport customs officers with the Anti-Smuggling Investigation Department, under the General Department of Vietnam Customs, to check the 35-year-old South Korean man’s luggage, finding the phones. The second-hand mobile phones were seized at Tan Son Nhat International Airport on May 20 The phones bearing iPhones, Samsung and LG brands are worth around a total VND3 billion (USD130,434). Used and refurbished mobile phones are banned from being imported into Vietnam. The case is under further investigation. … [Read more...] about South Korean busted illegal mobile phone transportation in HCM City

As many as 4,000 people will join in an anti-terrorism drill held at various locations Ho Chi Minh City on December 15. Deputy director of Ho Chi Minh City's Department of Public Security, Nguyen Sy Quang, says that the four-hour drill will deal with four hypothetical scenarios. Speaking at a press conference held on December 12, deputy director of Ho Chi Minh City's Department of Public Security, Nguyen Sy Quang, said that the four-hour drill will deal with four hypothetical scenarios. "In the first scenario, the terrorists gather and set up online groups who distort information about the current situation and cause disorder in the area," Quang said. "The second scenario deals with disorder at the Tan Son Nhat Airport. In the third and fourth scenario, hundreds of terrorists and demonstrators attack state and government offices in the city centre." Quang stressed that the new points in this year's drill would deal with online terrorists and those who use hazardous chemicals. … [Read more...] about 4,000 people to join anti-terrorism drill in HCM City

  Artists at a meeting introducing the Việt Nam Puppetry Festival to be held on December 28-29 in HCM City. — VNS Photo Thu Ngân HCM CITY — The second puppetry festival will take place on HCM City’s Nguyễn Huệ Pedestrian Street on December 28-29, with the aim of creating a cultural exchange site for local residents on the occasion of the New Year and honouring traditional Vietnamese puppertry art. The festival, organised following the success of the first festival last year, is expected to attract tens of thousands of people living in HCM City and neighbouring provinces. Themed Green Dream, it will gather artists from puppetry theatres from all over the country who will perform shows on two nights. A variety of activities are expected to bring the art of puppetry closer to the general public and foreign tourists, contributing to preserving … [Read more...] about Việt Nam Puppetry Festival to open in HCM City