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HCM City eager for Ao Dai festival in March

According to the organising board on February 23, about 13 activities of the festival will be held in open space, including an Ao Dai exhibition in Nguyen Hue walking street and a contest for beautiful photos of Ao Dai, among others. 

Ao Dai collections of many famous designers like Thuan Viet, Viet Hung, Minh Chau and Ngo Nhat Huy will also be on display. 

At the festival, more than 3,000 people wearing Ao Dai will join in a parade at Nguyen Hue walking street. 

Bui Ta Hoang Vu, Director of HCM City Department of Tourism said that the festival aims to honour the Ao Dai and is hoped to become a cultural tourism product of HCM City.
VNA/VNP 

President Ho Chi Minhs experience in Soviet Union crucial to Vietnams revolution: Russian scholar

President Ho Chi Minh’s experience in Soviet Union crucial to Vietnam’s revolution: Russian scholar

The time when President Ho Chi Minh was in the Soviet Union (now Russia) provided him with invaluable experience in mass mobilisation and political organisation that later became instrumental in Vietnam’s revolutionary struggle, according to Dr Anatoly Sokolov from the Oriental Research Institute under the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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