The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) will organize road shows in France and Taiwan this month to woo more tourists to the country, according to Vu The Binh, Director of the Department of Travel under VNAT.
The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho is building up a file on Don ca tai tu Nam bo (Southern amateur music) to be submitted to the UNESCO for recognition as an intangible cultural heritage, said a provincial official.
The city’s special promotion for local tourists named One Day at Five-Star Hotels will be extended to December 31 instead of wrapping up at the end of October.
Cam Ranh Airport in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa will become an international airport with the opening of an official direct air route linking Cam Ranh and Vladivostock in Russia on December 12.
Two children sit in a toy boat behind a thatched hut, smiling without a care in the world. The “toy boat†is actually the casing of a huge bomb dropped by American Air forces during the American War.
OTO ZA Group, a well-known Japanese art troupe, will perform on the wadaiko drum at HCMC’s Opera House on December 11 to bring the curtain down on the Japanese Culture Month in the city and the Mekong-Japan Exchange year.
More than 60 scientists have joined up with their Vietnamese colleagues to tour a number of archaeological sites in the central province of Thanh Hoa.
Eighteen ghe ngo (Khmer boat) teams from every Mekong Delta district with a Khmer population participated in a two-day race which ended November 30 on Xa No Canal in Hau Giang Province’s Vi Thanh Town.
Over 40 wood-block paintings printed on poonah-paper, featuring normal daily life of Vietnamese people are on show in Paris, France. The black and white paintings, made by Vietnamese painter Hoang Minh Phuc are the first of its kind to be displayed in France.
A file on the 82 doctoral laureates steles in Van Mieu (Temple of Literature) in Hanoi sent to UNESCO for consideration as a world documentation heritage, said General Secretary of UNESCO Vietnam Pham Sanh Chau.
President of the Ikebana Association Sumara Eiko showed 13 styles of Japanese floral art installation known as Ikebana at Hanoi’s Van Mieu Quoc Tu Giam (Temple of Literature) on December 5.
The Vietnam-China Trade and Tourism Fair opened in Mong Cai City, in the northern province of Quang Ninh, on December 4.