Good news came from the 10th National Sports Games 2026, currently taking place in Ho Chi Minh City, as on the morning of November 7, Hue City Karate team won its first Gold medal, opening Hue Sports Delegation’s medal tally at this year’s Games.

Hue City has attracted interest from numerous major corporations and businesses, opening up new opportunities for industrial and tourism development. However, the key challenge now is to turn proposed projects into reality as soon as possible, thereby boosting production capacity, creating more jobs, and generating additional revenue for the city’s budget.

On the morning of November 5th, the opening ceremony of the 2026 Hue International Sculpture Camp, themed ‘Impressions of Hue, Vietnam - 2026’, took place at the park along the northern bank of the Huong River as part of Hue Festival 2026.

In Hue, a growing number of cultural spaces are opening up with a more accessible approach, allowing visitors and young people to take part directly in traditional handicraft and art activities. These venues offer more options for exploring the Ancient Capital, with each experience telling its own cultural story.

For Hue, Resolution 80-NQ/TW (Res 80) opens up a vital opportunity to transform cultural and heritage potential into resources for sustainable development. However, to achieve this goal, it is necessary to fully recognize the existing “bottlenecks” in the management, preservation, and promotion of heritage values.

The 10th Hue City Sports Festival 2026 officially opened as the traditional torch lit at Ho Chi Minh Museum, then arrived at the sports arena in the City’s Cultural and Sports Square. Beyond celebrating the strength of the sports movement, the event also reflects Hue’s aspirations to develop sports in a way that preserves its identity and reinforces its new standing in a new era.

On the morning of October 22, the first Vietnam Calligraphy Festival 2026 opened at the Co Mat Vien (Privy Council) - Tam Toa relic site under the theme ‘Vietnamese Soul through Brushstrokes’. The event is part of Hue Festival 2026.

For many women, life has been a long struggle to make ends meet, never having had a chance to experience a proper education. Yet, even as their hair turns grey and their hands grow rough from years of hard work, they remain eager to open their notebooks, carefully practice writing each letter, and shape their lips as they learn to read aloud, one letter at a time.

From still-clumsy letters to neat lines of notes, learners in the literacy class in Residential Area 5, Duong No Ward, are overcoming their feelings of inadequacy and their age, day by day, to learn to read and write. For them, being literate not only makes life more convenient but also opens up new opportunities.

On the afternoon of October 9th, Hue Central Hospital, in coordination with Hue City Geriatrics Association, held the opening ceremony of the Third Hue Ancient Capital Geriatrics Scientific Conference 2026, themed ‘Disease Management in the Elderly: Early Prevention - Comprehensive Treatment’. The conference attracted nearly 300 delegates, including experts, scientists, doctors and healthcare professionals from hospitals, medical facilities and medical training institutions across the country.

Having just completed a major renovation and reopened to welcome visitors, the magnificent and ancient Thai Hoa Palace inside Hue Imperial Citadel attracts thousands of tourists for sightseeing and appreciation.