(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.
The People’s Committee of Lac Son district held a ceremony on April 28 to receive the provincial relic certificate for the ancient rock carving site at Suoi Co stream, located in My Thanh commune.
A special music show titled "The country is in the fullness of joy” has been held at Hoa Binh Square in Hoa Binh city in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the South and national reunification (April 30, 1975–2025).
The People's Committee of Lo Son commune, Tan Lac district, has organised the local annual traditional stream fishing festival on April 19 - 20.
As a land deeply intertwined with human history and Vietnam’s millennia-long journey of nation-building and defence, Hoa Binh is often revered for its epic tales and legends.
Residents of Hoa Binh boast a rich cultural identity, reflected in their unique language, traditional attire, customs, and folk melodies – described as "sweet as honey, clear as a mountain stream.”
Lac Son district’s Vu ban town held the 2025 Truong Kha temple festival on April 12–13 (the 15th–16th days of the third lunar month). Since its revival in 2019, the festival has been organised every three years, preserving valuable intangible heritage while meeting the community’s cultural and spiritual needs.
