During Hue Festival 2012 from April 7 to 15, the culturally rich, traditionally vibrant and spiritually enriched world of people from the central provinces of the country will come alive under the theme “Cultural Heritage-Rendezvous with Historic Cities”.
Residents ...
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Thousands of people flocked to Danang City’s Ngu Hanh Son, to take part in the Goddess of Mercy Festival, which opened on March 11.
The festival is considered one of Vietnam’s15 most special cultural events.
The ceremony was held in the foothills of Thuy Son Mountain, where the ...
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Establishing a tourism police force, applying the common fares for both domestic and international tourists, controlling quality of tour guides are proposed to add to the amended Law on Tourism.
At the workshop on the implementation of the Law on Tourism ...
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The tourism promotion season begins. Travel firms now gear up to organize promotion campaigns to attract more foreign travelers to Vietnam.
HCM City strives to receive 3.78 million foreign travelers in 2012. The 10 leading markets which had the highest numbers of tourists ...
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Lanta-Viet, a local branch of the bankrupted tour operator Lanta-Tur Voyach, is back in operation to finish all proceedings related Russian tourists and pay off debts to their partners in Mui Ne, according to Nguyen Van Khoa, chairman ...
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Small and medium carriers in Hanoi complain that the demand is too low in the first month of the Lunar New Year in comparison with the previous years, though it is now the festival season.
Demand weak
Worshiping together with traveling on the first days of the spring ...
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Vietnam’s eighth largest ethnic group is renowned for its colorful clothes and the New Year is an occasion for flaunting them.
For the H’mong, in fact, clothes do make the man – or woman, in this case. They are divided into several subgroups, but the four major ones are White, Red, ...
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A MOU on the program to discover Vietnamese culture in the Republic of Korea (RoK) has been signed by Hanoi Open University and Korea National Open University (KNOU).
Under the program, Hanoi Open University will provide numerous programs relating to Vietnamese history, culture, society, economy and education while Korea National ...
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The General Department of Tourism held a news conference on December 27th to introduce Vietnam’s new tourism logo and slogan and the 2012 tourism strategy.
The old slogan “Vietnam – Hidden charm” has now been replaced by the new ...
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Ho Chi Minh City kicked off its Lunar New Year celebration which falls on January 23 with a street parade and international food festival Monday.
The street shows are part of a month-long festival which comprises of various performing arts and cultural activities to welcome the Lunar New Year 2012 in downtown Ho Chi Minh.
The opening which was held at the central 23/9 Park in District ...
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