Madam Ngo Phuong Ly, spouse of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Viet Nam Central Committee To Lam, and Madam Lis Cuesta Peraza, spouse of First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee and President of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, enjoyed a traditional water puppet performance and visited Ngoc Son Temple in Ha Noi on September 1.

Party General Secretary To Lam’s spouse, Ngo Phuong Ly, met with representatives of Vietnamese brides living in Seoul, the Republic of Korea, on August 10.

A square named after President Ho Chi Minh was officially inaugurated in Vyborg district, Russia's St. Petersburg city, on July 29 in the presence of Madame Ngo Phuong Ly, spouse of Party General Secretary To Lam, and a Vietnamese delegation.

A Russia–Viet Nam Cultural Centre was inaugurated at Herzen University in Saint-Petersburg on July 28, marking the debut of the first of its kind in Russia’s second largest city.

At the invitation of the Russian Government and the administration of Saint Petersburg, Ngo Phuong Ly, spouse of Party General Secretary To Lam, arrived in Moscow on July 22 to begin a series of cultural diplomacy activities marking the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Viet Nam and the Russian Federation.