(To Quoc) - The President presided over the Spring Incense Offering Ceremony at Thang Long Imperial Citadel; Le Quang Liem won the historic championship at the world online blitz chess tournament; Da Nang entered the top 10 culinary destinations in the world in 2025 are the highlights in today's newspapers.
1. Cultural Field
- Tin Tuc, VietnamPlus, Tuoi Tre, VOV, Lao Dong, Thanh Nien, Quan Doi Nhan Dan and many other newspapers reported on February 6: In the warm atmosphere of the beginning of the New Year, on the morning of February 6 (January 9), President Luong Cuong presided over the incense offering ceremony to open the Spring of At Ty 2025 at Kinh Thien Palace - Thang Long Imperial Citadel relic site, commemorating the ancestors and talented people who have contributed to the country. The President and delegates vowed to uphold the heroic and cultural traditions of Thang Long - Hanoi and the noble values of the nation; be loyal, filial, intelligent, and pure; follow in the footsteps of our ancestors, continue the spirit of Thang Long; foster the great national unity bloc, build an increasingly prosperous, democratic, equitable, and civilized country; move towards a new era, an era of strong, prosperous, and prosperous development; people have a prosperous and happy life.
President Luong Cuong offers incense to open the Lunar New Year at Kinh Thien Palace, Thang Long Imperial Citadel (Hanoi). Photo: VNA
- To Quoc and Education & Times Newspapers on February 5 reported: Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed Directive No. 03/CT-TTg dated February 4, 2025 to urge the implementation of key tasks after the Lunar New Year holiday of At Ty 2025. Assigning specific tasks to ministries and branches. The Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to preside over and coordinate with agencies and localities to focus on implementing the National Target Program on Cultural Development for the period 2025 - 2035 from 2025 in accordance with the conclusion of the Central Executive Committee. At the same time, step up propaganda, mobilization, raise awareness and responsibility of all levels, branches, people and tourists in implementing regulations on organizing festivals, not organizing festivals indiscriminately, causing waste. Strengthen inspection, examination and supervision of festival organization, promptly detect, prevent and strictly handle violations, especially acts of taking advantage of relics, festivals and beliefs for personal gain, superstitious activities...
- To Quoc and Van Hoa Newspapers reported: On the afternoon of February 5, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Trinh Thi Thuy inspected the organization of the "Spring Colors of the Country" Festival in 2025 at the Vietnam Ethnic Culture and Tourism Village (Dong Mo, Son Tay, Hanoi). Deputy Minister Trinh Thi Thuy praised the efforts of the Management Board of the Vietnam Ethnic Culture and Tourism Village in preparing for the Festival. At the same time, the Deputy Minister requested the Management Board to continue to review, inspect and urge the Festival to be successfully organized.
- Tin Tuc, Cong An Nhan Dan, Dai De Nhan Dan, Tuoi Tre, TTXVN and many other newspapers reported: On the evening of February 5, the New Year Concert "New Year Concert 2025" took place at Ho Guom Theater (Hanoi). The program was attended by representatives of leaders of Central Committees, Ministries, and Hanoi City; Ambassadors, Chargé d'Affaires, international guests; comrades in the Central Public Security Party Committee, leaders of the Ministry of Public Security, and representatives of generals, families of generals, and officers and soldiers of the People's Public Security.
- Nhan Dan Newspaper, Tin Tuc, TTXVN, Tuoi Tre Thu Do, Dan Viet reported: On February 5, the 8th day of the first lunar month of the year of At Ty, at the temple of teacher Chu Van An (Chi Linh city, Hai Duong province), the City Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee, and Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of the city held the Spring Writing Ceremony of At Ty 2025 to preserve the custom of Spring Writing, honoring the nation's tradition of studiousness and respect for teachers.
- Nhan Dan, Tin Tuc, Lao Dong, Dan Toc and Phat Trien, VietnamPlus and many other newspapers reported: On February 5 (the 8th day of the Lunar New Year), in Phong Phu commune, Tan Lac district, Hoa Binh province, the 2025 Muong ethnic group's Opening Festival took place. This is the largest traditional folk festival of the Muong ethnic group in Hoa Binh, which has become a unique cultural and religious feature for many generations.
2. Sports Field
- Van Hoa Newspaper, People's Army Newspaper, Hanoi Moi Newspaper, Sports 247 and many other newspapers reported: The 2025 National U19 Women's Football Tournament, the first playground after the Lunar New Year for Vietnamese youth football, will kick off at the Vietnam Youth Football Training Center (Hanoi) on February 9. The tournament has 6 participating teams, including: Hanoi, Vietnam Coal and Minerals, Zantino Vinh Phuc, Ho Chi Minh City, Thai Nguyen T&T and Phong Phu Ha Nam. The teams will compete in a round-robin format with two home and home matches to calculate the final ranking points. The team with the highest total score after all matches will win the championship.
- Tuoi Tre, Dan Tri, Sports & Culture, VnExpress, VietnamPlus and many other newspapers reported: Chess player Le Quang Liem excellently won the Titled Tuesday online blitz chess tournament, played on the Chess.com platform. Title Tuesday is a blitz chess tournament that takes place every Tuesday morning and afternoon, gathering hundreds of players who are grandmasters or above. This year's tournament gathered 943 players, many of whom are very strong such as Hikaru Nakamura, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, Levon Aronian, Hans Niemann... This is Le Quang Liem's 4th Titled Tuesday title, and also the 4th in history that he has won all 11 games.
- Lao Dong Newspaper (February 5) published an article titled 'Vietnamese Football 2025 and Opportunities for Young Players', emphasizing: In fact, young players have more and more opportunities at both the national team and club levels. The national team really needs young players to serve many goals such as the 2027 Asian Cup qualifiers and especially the 33rd SEA Games at the end of 2025. In a year when Vietnamese football did not participate in many major tournaments, the SEA Games became an important destination. However, it is also necessary to recognize that young players themselves need to prove their abilities and seize opportunities when trusted by coaches. Only then will "time" truly come to young people.
- Some other sports news on SGGP newspaper on February 5 and 6:
The throwers of the Vietnamese men's and women's (indoor) handball teams have won important opening matches at the 2025 Southeast Asian Championship.
The Vietnamese road cycling team of 17 cyclists has left for Thailand to compete in the 2025 Asian Championship from February 5.
The bonus for teams achieving results at the 2025 National Volleyball Championship will almost be guaranteed as in previous seasons with 500 million VND for the champion...
The organizing committee of the 2025 National Triathlon Championship has officially opened the portal for amateur male and female athletes to register to compete this year. Registration begins on February 4 and lasts until April 12.
The International Cycling Union (UCI) sent an official document to the Vietnam Cycling and Motor Sports Federation announcing that female cyclist Lam Thi Thuy Duong has been granted a training place at the World Cycling Center in 2025.
3. Tourism Sector
- Nhan Dan Newspaper, VnExpress, VTV, Bao Ve Phap Luat and many other newspapers reported: The famous culinary guide Michelin Guide has just announced a list of 10 most attractive culinary destinations in 2025. Accordingly, Da Nang city (Vietnam) is on the list of 10 culinary destinations that must be visited in 2025 along with cities around the world such as Austin and Miami (USA), Mexico City (Mexico), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Bangkok (Thailand), Fujian (China), Osaka (Japan), Bath (UK) and Vienna (Austria). Da Nang being named in the prestigious list of Michelin Guide will continue to promote Da Nang cuisine in particular, Vietnamese cuisine in general to food lovers as well as cultural explorers around the world.
Da Nang in the top 10 culinary destinations in the world in 2025. (Photo: Youtobe.com)
- Tuoi Tre, Van Hoa, Thanh Nien, Phap Luat TP.HCM, Phap Luat Viet Nam newspapers reported: On February 5, the People's Committee of Quang Nam province announced that it had agreed on the policy of implementing a tourist bus route connecting two world cultural heritages, Hoi An ancient town and My Son temple complex.
- To Quoc Newspaper has an article 'Promoting the improvement of tourism products, considering temporary visa exemption for some groups of tourists', the article said: On February 5, at the regular Government press conference in January 2025, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Tran Quoc Phuong said: "The Prime Minister has directed the need to promote the improvement of tourism products, while researching and supplementing support solutions to attract international tourists. One of the important measures is to improve visa policies, including considering temporary visa exemption for some groups of tourists, in order to create more favorable conditions to encourage international visitors to come to Vietnam and stay longer".
- On February 5, Nhan Dan Newspaper published an article titled 'Return to the source tourism - a strong type of Vietnam's "smokeless industry", the article stated: After more than 4000 years of building and defending the country, the Vietnamese people have written glorious golden pages of history with brilliant feats against foreign invaders. Associated with those feats is a dense system of "red addresses" reminding us of the heroic history. This is an invaluable resource for developing return to the source tourism - a strong type that is determined to create competitiveness for Vietnam's tourism.
- Tourism "overcomes storms" to create momentum to rise up: Don't "rest on your laurels" is the title of an article in VietnamPlus newspaper (February 5), the article emphasized: Welcoming 22-23 million international visitors is the goal set for the entire Vietnamese tourism industry in 2025. Experts assessed that although the goal is high, it also shows the determination to soon make tourism a spearhead economic sector of the country.
4. Family Field
- Vietnam Women's Newspaper (February 5) reported: Vietnamese women are the main labor force, making many positive contributions to the country's socio-economic development, especially the journey to build a green and sustainable economy. In recent times, the Vietnam Women's Union has implemented many practical activities to support women in participating in green economic development. Many initiatives and ideas on "clean production, clean processing, clean consumption", and the model of "women living green" have been responded to by women nationwide.
Source: https://toquoc.vn/diem-bao-hoat-dong-nganh-van-hoa-the-thao-va-du-lich-ngay-06-02-2025-20250206115316298.htm
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