Vietnam Travel News

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Ministry of Information and Communications will tighten monitoring of online games and cultural products.

Camera traps have revealed a flock of over 100 individuals of Siamese Fireback pheasant (lophura diardi), living in the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Binh.

A 43-member art troupe from Guangdong province of China will make a performance tour of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from June 16-20.

The Costa Classica cruise liner brought 1,000 tourists from Hong Kong and China, docking at Tien Sa port, Da Nang City on June 15.

The central city of Danang will kick off a summer beach festival this week with a series of tourism and sea sport activities aimed at wooing more domestic travelers to the city in the summer travel season, an official said.

The Thua Thien-Hue provincial people’s Committee announced at a press briefing on June 14 that the 2012 Hue Festival will be held in April, to avoid any bad weather.

A gaggle of French print and electronic-media journalists have been visiting the central city of Hue since the beginning of this month to report on culture and tourism in the heritage city.

The Ministry of Transport has given the nod to the central province of Ninh Thuan to build an expressway linking Phan Rang-Thap Cham city and the Cam Ranh International Airport in neighbouring Khanh Hoa province.

According to the organizing board, the festival theme will be “Dragon Bridge tells the story of 1000 years. The four-day event (Oct. 6-9) will consist of four stages.

The “Future journey: Japan’s new generation of fine arts” exhibition opened at the Labour Culture Palace in HCM City on June 12.

Nearly 150 kites flew at the 6th Kite Festival on Cua Dai beach in Hoi An on June 12.

An airport will be built in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau to serve both civil and military purposes, announced the Ministry of Transportation and the Lai Chau People’s Committee on June 13.

Saigontourist has received 2,100 foreign visitors from Italy, Spain, the UK and Germany on board a Costa Romantica Cruise Ship.