The International Resort Silver Shore, in coordination with the Chinese AoYou Travel Company, held a seminar on May 24 on tourism promotion in China. The seminar attracted 120 managers of travel agents and hotels as well as news agencies from Shenzhen City in China. It provided a good opportunity for businesses from both countries to cooperate and ...
To mark International Children’s Day on June 1, the Vietnam Ethnology Museum in Hanoi will host ‘Get Acquainted with Southeast Asia’ on Saturday and Sunday, May 28 and 29, 2011. The program is a chance for Vietnamese and Asian children in the capital to introduce their own nation’s culture via activities, games and toys. These activities help ...
An exhibition named “Three people, three colours” opened on May 24 in the Korean Cultural Centre in Hanoi, displaying 43 works by three artists of the Republic of Korea who are living and working in Hanoi. A work of Kim Minseung Woo Kyeong Hwa, female artist graduated from Ewha Women's University in 1987. She has lived in ...
The organizer of the annual Southern Fruit Festival, which will start early next month in HCMC, expects the event to help promote southern fruits and achieve sales of around 1,000 tons of fruit, up around 200 tons from last year’s event. The festival will include activities such as the floating fruit market, a contest of good ...
Local travel firms are planning a summer campaign to restart tours to Japan after business fell away in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that struck in March. Most tourist destinations are returning to normal and the big cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto are pulling out all the stops to welcome tourists back. Japanese ...
We are sat in the reception of our hotel on our last day of 4 months. Can't believe that our time is up! The last couple of weeks have been good ones though. Ninh Binh was an interesting place. Beautiful surroundings, terrible (and I mean really awful) food. We didn't have one meal there which we ...
Vietnam is among 16 other Buddhist countries sending Buddhist art and ritual objects to the International Buddhist Museum in Sri Lanka’s ancient capital city of Kandy. The International Buddhist Museum, the first its kind in Sri Lanka, opened on May 20. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, venerable, monks of the Sri Lanka Buddhism and diplomats and ...
All major monuments of Nguyen Dynasty in the former feudal capital city of Hue and its surrounding areas will be fully restored by 2020 under a plan announced by the People's Committee of Thua Thien-Hue Province. All structures of the Forbidden City, the homes of kings and royal families that were once off-limits to the common ...
Just a quick one today, as the pictures more or less speak for themselves, and to be honest we didn't do much apart from lie on the boat or lie on the beach on Monkey Island! We spent two nights and about three and half days in Halong bay, drifting slowly on the boat during the ...
“Vietnam’s vitality” is the theme of an ongoing photo exhibition that opened at Islas Malvinas Cultural Centre in the Argentinean city of La Plata on May 13. The event, being jointly held by the Vietnamese Embassy in Argentina and Islas Malvinas Cultural Centre, aims to mark the 121st birthday of the late President Ho Chi Minh ...