Vietnam Travel News

Senior artists and stage critics say existing Vietnamese dramas aren’t reflecting modern life.

The public has raised concerns about the preservation and safety of an historic building in Hue City that has served as a provincial museum for 30 years.

 The 2009 International Gong Festival will be organised for the first time in the Central Highland province of Gia Lai’s Pleiku city from November 12-15.
The event aims to highlight the gong culture, a UNESCO-recognised “Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity”.

Two new direct domestic air routes will open on October 24 and 27 respectively, announced Vietnam Airlines.

Vietnam Culture Week in Brazil is taking place in Brazilia Capital from October 11 to 23, 2009. In his speech at the opening ceremony, Vietnamese Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh affirmed that the Vietnam Culture Week in Brazil is one of the important events to develop the relationship and multi-sided co-operation between Vietnam and Brazil.

Hoi An town in the central province of Quang Nam is building a VND2 billion tourism promotion plan between now and 2010.

The culture of Oc Eo is the general name of a civilization attached to the kingdom of legendary Phu Nam.

Two major golf tournaments will take place on courses in the north of Vietnam this month and next for amateur and professional players from Vietnam and from overseas to compete.

The History and Revolution Museum of Thua Thien - Hue province, has received a set of rare wood blocks with stories to tell.

The biggest jade block in the world arrived in Vietnam on the 999th anniversary of Hanoi. Its new owner Dao Trong Cuong describes the journey of the jade to Vietnam.

Vietnam’s former imperial capital of Hue will be promoted in a new tourism campaign “Heart of Vietnam”.

The “Mekong-Japan Tourism and Cultural Festival” will open in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on December 1, one day earlier than scheduled, said a local official on October 21.

Political, economic and commercial cooperation between Vietnam and Japan is increasing day by day. As a result, cultural exchanges between the two countries have had drastic development.

Asian Trails Co. Ltd. in HCMC is promoting a new tourist route via the Na Meo border gate in the northern province of Thanh Hoa that links attractions between Laos and Vietnam for European tourists this high season, company director Bui Viet Thuy Tien said.

Lam Kinh is located in Tho Xuan District, Thanh Hoa Province, about 50 km west of Thanh Hoa City.