Vietnam Travel News

In their recent show at Phuong Mai Gallery in HCM City, a group of well-known artists show that age cannot diminish their creative powers.

Locals in Hanoi’s suburban Quoc Oai district had handed down a curse through generations that the traditional song genre, “hat do”, should be performed by virgin teenagers at a special festival held in spring every 36 years.

A photo exhibition on the gong culture of the Central Highlands of Vietnam will open to the public on November 6th at the Vietnam Ethnology Museum in Hanoi.

The national flag-carrier Vietnam Airlines on November 4 increased its number of flights on France-Vietnam route per week from six to eight. Passengers can now find flights between France and Vietnam daily,

Preparations for the international gong festival are almost completed and the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai only waits for the opening ceremony, said Pham Xuan Vu, director of the Gia Lai provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Vietnam was named among one of the most peaceful nations in the world at a Global Symposium of Peaceful Nations held in Washington, DC, from November 1-3.

A contest on knowledge about the heroic, thousand-year old city of Thang Long-Hanoi was launched in Vientiane on November 4.

A new exhibition called the Emergency Room puts artists under the pressure of daily deadlines to come up with topical new works in the ever-changing exhibition space at the Fine Arts University in Hanoi.

The Ministry of Transport (MOT) decided on November 2 that Jetstar Pacific Airlines needs a new logo to replace the “Jet” logo and orange star.

The number of foreign tourists to Viet Nam has risen slightly in the last two months, compared to the same period last year.

President Ho Chi Minh’s mausoleum and the monument for martyrs will open its doors again from November 7.

Locals in Ha Noi’s suburban Quoc Oai District had handed down a curse through generations that the traditional song genre, hat do, should be performed by virgin teenagers at a special festival held in spring every 36 years.

Rising from the rice fields of Ha Giang Province, Tha Hamlet offers a glimpse of rural northern life.
About ten kilometers outside the provincial capital of Ha Giang,

 The Hue Relic Preservation Centre (HRPC) and the National Palace Museum of the Republic of Korea (NPMK) have inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in preservation and museum work.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST) is about to set up a centre to promote Vietnamese tourism in France and other European countries,