Hollywood’s latest blockbuster Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Voght-Roberts was voted to become Việt Nam’s next tourism ambassador by a 12-member council under the Ministry of Culture and Sport.

On accepting the invitation by the World Wood Day Foundation (WWDF), Vietnamese water puppet artist Phan Thanh Liêm will attend World Wood Day 2017 as a guest of honour.

The Nha Trang Tourism Association has formed a “welcome club” to serve the increasing number of Chinese visitors to the popular resort city in the central coastal province of Khánh Hòa.

The film Kong: Skull Island premiered in Việt Nam’s cinemas on Thursday, a day before it hits international cinemas on March 10. 

Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Kong was shot in the three provinces of Ninh Bình, Quảng Ninh and Quảng Bình. This is the biggest motion picture and first Holywood movie ever to be filmed in Việt Nam.

Electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre says he will perform in Israel next month in a concert to publicise the plight of the shrinking Dead Sea.

Game of Thrones returns for its season seven premiere on July 16, HBO announced Thursday in an elaborate marketing stunt which elated and bemused fans of the hit fantasy show.

I had heard that the Tràng An complex was one of most attractive natural beauty sites in Việt Nam, but my recent trip there surpassed all expectations.

When we arrived at the site, about 95 kms south of Hà Nội, we took a boat to Suối Tiên Temple.

An exhibition that opened this week at Hà Nội’s Fine Arts Museum depicts lacquer paintings depicting the Vietnamese practices related to belief in the Mother Goddesses of Three Realms, which was recognised a few months ago by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

The central city of Tam Kỳ and Tam Thanh commune has launched the community-based art village as part of a pilot project of tourism development in the fishing village.