On July 26, the Opening Ceremony of the 7th Ho Chi Minh City International Festival of Traditional Vietnamese Martial Arts and the 18th Expanded Ho Chi Minh City Festival of Traditional Vietnamese Martial Arts took place in Ho Chi Minh City.

Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) Tran Thanh Man and his spouse Nguyen Thi Thanh Nga joined President of the Senegalese NA El Malick Ndiaye in visiting the Vovinam martial arts club in Dakar on July 23 afternoon (local time) as part of the Vietnamese leader’s official visit to the African country.