Vietnam’s cultural industries are entering a period of robust growth with numerous highlights across cinema, design, music, and creative craft villages. However, behind this vibrancy, a reality persists: the value chain remains fragmented, lacking connectivity between creativity, production, distribution, markets, and reinvestment. The question arises: What are the bottlenecks preventing this growth momentum from becoming…

Cultural industries are often mentioned alongside grand concepts: heritage, museums, festivals, or cinema. However, in Hanoi, another flow is quietly forming from very small things: a bar of soap, a candle, a piece of paper, a scrap of leather. When these are narrated, designed into experiences, and connected into a community, these “minor things” gradually…

On 1 October 2025, the People’s Committee of Hà Nội issued Plan No. 270/KH-UBND to implement Resolution No. 24/2025/NQ-HĐND on the organisation and operation of Cultural Industry Centers across the city. The move is seen as a significant step in translating the goal of positioning cultural industries as a key economic sector and affirming Hanoi’s…

At the roundtable discussion “Cultural Industries – The Path to Unlocking Vietnam’s Endless Creative Treasure”, held on 1 October 2025 in Hà Nội, experts, artists and businesses reached a shared conclusion: Vietnam possesses an immense cultural treasure, yet it has not been sufficiently harnessed to generate economic value and national soft power. The roundtable was…

UNESCO has released a new set of practical guidelines to support the integration of culture and the arts into formal, non-formal and informal education across the entire learning life cycle. Photo: Momo Scacchi What is the Implementation Guide for the UNESCO Framework on Culture and Arts Education? UNESCO has issued a new Implementation Guide that…