A ceremony to ask for flame to light up the 31st Southeast Asian Games (Sea Games 31) will begin at 5pm on Friday at the Ho Chi Minh Museum in Hanoi. The procession will call at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and lay memorial wreaths and then move to the Ho Chi Minh Museum for the torch relay ceremony.

The sacred flame and the delegation will move to My Dinh National Stadium and to the room worshipping President Ho Chi Minh, where the flame will be kept.

My Dinh National Stadium cauldron will be lit up during the opening ceremony of the Games next Thursday evening. Track and field athlete Quach Thi Lan, who won gold medal of Asian Games 2018, will be honored to light up the Games.

Source: VOV5