Two luxury ships made a short landing in Vietnam recently, welcoming over 4,500 visitors to the country. The Voyager of the Seas and SuperStar Virgo are five-star luxury ships which carried affluent people from all over the world to visit such sites as Ha Long Bay, Ho Chi Minh City and other popular tourist spots […]
In a mission to revive traditional Vietnamese craft in today’s modern world, artist Phan Hai Bang and his team invented a one-of-a-kind paper called Truc chi and incorporated it with contemporary art products. Truc chi is made from bamboo pulp and produced with the same technique as making paper Poonah. Each sheet of paper is […]
Discovered by the French in 1902 and initially planned to be transformed into a place of relaxation for its soldiers, Tam Dao is a rising tourist destination today because of its “four seasons in one day,” owing to its high 900-meter elevation from the sea. Tam Dao is a valley located at Tam Dao Town, […]
In order to promote investment in Ho Chi Minh City, the Dutch-invested, Netherlands-backed company De Heus LLC Vietnam will build an additional animal feed plant and an aqua-culture research center in Vinh Long Province. The former will cost $15 million while the latter is worth $3 million. In line with its investment plans, some of […]
MobiFone, Vietnam’s dominant mobile service provider, introduced a prepaid mobile package designed exclusively for international tourists visiting the country. Named Happy Tourist, the special promo offers data, SMS and call services in several packages but all at affordable prices for more convenience to foreign tourists visiting Vietnam. The Happy Tourist prepaid package has two choices […]
Several countries lay overlapping claims to the energy-rich East and South China Seas. China claims the largest portion of the disputed territory, an area defined by the nine-dotted demarcation suggesting that Beijing lays claim to most of the South China Sea. Other major claimants in the area include the Philippines, Malaysia, Japan and Bruinei. It […]
After launching a direct route between Hanoi-Tokyo (Haneda) in March, Japan’s five-star airline All Nippon Airways has just began using its Boeing Dreamliner 787 model into service for the same destination beginning June 1. Replacing the using Boeing 767-300ER aircraft initially used for the route, the Dreamliner is Boeing’s most fuel-efficient airliner featuring modern interior […]
In honor of a Water God and their Hien Sinh custom, the people of Do Son District, Haiphong City celebrate a yearly tradition called Buffalo Fighting Festival. Officially starting on the 9th day of the eighth month of the Vietnamese lunar calendar, the worshipping ceremony is also, in fact mainly, a grand display of the local […]
39 new caves have been discovered at the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Binh. The discovery was made by explorers of the British Royal Cave Association and the Hanoi College of Natural Sciences during a joint survey conducted by the two groups from March 16 to April 25. The […]
Don ca tai tu Nam bo or Southern amateur music is a category of the old chamber music in Southern Vietnam created since the end of the 19th century. Because of its longevity for one, it is considered a tradition in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho and is now being pushed to be recognized […]