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With the great effort of the railway industry and over 1,000 workers, Vietnam North-South Railway had traffic through on November 7 after extreme damage caused by Typhoon Mirinae. The repair was three days ahead of schedule.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has decided to invest VND31 billion (around US$1.73 million) in eight new satellite database centres that preserve information on intangible cultural heritages of ethnic groups in the country.

 Wives of diplomats from 17 Asian countries, including Vietnam, held an Asian Cuisine Night to raise funds in Cairo on November 6.

Forty troupes from both inside and outside the country will attend the International Gong Festival, to be held in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai from Nov. 12-15.

Border provinces and 60 international travel agents from southern Kien Giang to northern Lang Son province have attended the first seminar on border tourism development in Lang Son.

Nearly 90 photos on gong music in the Central Highlands of Vietnam taken by French people have been on display for the first time since November 6 at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology.

AirAsia, a leading regional budget carrier, announced on November 6 that it will start direct daily flights between Ho Chi Minh City to the world-acclaimed tourist destination of Phuket in Thailand.

Four big names of the Iranian art opened a joint painting exhibition in Hanoi on November 8 to welcome the success of the Asian Indoor Games-3, which was to close later in the evening after nine days’ competition.

Two US naval ships, the USS Blue Ridge and USS Lassen, on November 7 anchored at the central port of Danang, beginning a four-day friendship visit to the city.

Phung Hoang Son, or Co To Mountain, is the most beautiful among the several mountains of the That Son Range in the mountainous area of the Mekong Delta province of An Giang. The mountain is acclaimed as an ideal destination by pilgrims and tourists to experience the feeling of conquering the peak of a mountain and to take in a panoramic view of An Giang Province.

Foreigners from countries with left-hand traffic systems will be allowed to bring their right-hand drive vehicles into Vietnam with permission from the Ministry of Transport as from November 15, a new decree said.

 Vietnam’s flagship carrier, Vietnam Airlines (VNA), will open a new direct air route from Hanoi to Osaka on January 13, 2010, said VNA spokesman Le Hoang Dung.