(HBO) – A delegation of the Hoa Binh provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has paid a working visit to the Kaysone Phomvihane Museum in Laos to bolster cooperation in professional activities.
The visit aimed to share experience in document and artifact
collection, restoration, along with preservation and promotion of values of
Vietnam-Laos revolutionary relic sites in Hoa Binh province.
Singthong Singhapanya, a leader of the Kaysone
Phomvihane Museum, welcomed the delegation’s working visit to Laos. He affirmed
that the Party and State of Laos are interested in the collection of documents
and the restoration and preservation of Vietnam-Laos revolutionary relic sites,
including those in Hoa Binh province.
He highlighted the importance of the Vietnam-Laos
relic sites in Hoa Binh to Laos’s revolution as well as the managing board of
the Kaysone Phomvihane Museum, noting that these relic sites provide more
evidence of the special friendship between the two nations.
The two sides agreed to cooperate in collecting
relevant documents and restoring and preserving these relic sites.
The delegation of the Hoa Binh Department of Culture, Sports
and Tourism visits the house of late President Kaysone Phomvihane in the
Kaysone Phomvihane Museum in Laos.
After discussing, the two
sides signed a memorandum of understanding. Accordingly, they agreed to
continue cooperating in professional activities, including studying and
collecting artifacts. They will also keep working together to preserve and
bring into play values of the two Vietnam-Laos revolutionary relic sites in Hoa
Binh. Communications activities will also be increased to raise people’s
awareness of the special bilateral friendship as well as the significance of
the two relic sites in the province.
In 2019, the Vietnamese side will invite a
delegation of Laos to visit Hoa Binh to discuss the cooperation.
During their stay in Laos, the Hoa Binh
delegation visited to collect information at some other museums and historical
and cultural relic sites of Laos. They also interviewed two persons who
directly prepared for and attended the preparatory congress for the second
Congress of the Lao People’s Party (now the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party)
in Hoa Binh in 1971.
A great national solidarity festival was held in Ngai hamlet, Thach Yen commune, Cao Phong district, on November 8. Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the People’s Committee of Hoa Binh province Bui Van Khanh, and Colonel Trinh Duc Thiem, Commander of the provincial Military Command, attended the event.
A great national unity festival was held in Cau Son hamlet in Nhuan Trach commune of Luong Son district on November 10.
The organising board for the Hoa Binh Culture and Tourism Week 2024 has officially released its press statement.
The People’s Committee of Hoa Binh province held a press conference on November 5 to announce the details of its upcoming 2024 Culture-Tourism Week.
The ancient Muong area of Muong Dong – Kim Boi is experiencing a cultural resurgence, becoming a popular source of spiritual enrichment and drawing locals from walks of life.
On November 3rd, the residential area, sub-zone 1, Mai Chau town (Mai Chau) organized the Great National Solidarity and the Culture Festival between the local people and the armed forces. There was the attendance of Colonel Do Thanh Binh, the Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, the Director of the Provincial Public Security; the leaders from the appropriate departments and branches of the province and Mai Chau district. This is the residential area chosen to host the Great Solidarity Festival in the district in 2024.