Việt Nam News

The central city will host 143,000 tourists, including 82,000 foreigners, visiting during the Christmas and New Year vacation from December 24 through January 2.

The second Sa Pa Winter Festival opened on Saturday with great performances and saw the participation of thousands of local residents and tourists.

Brightly lit, bustling streets, bedecked churches and buildings and groups of people enjoying the holiday season, marked the Eve of Christmas here.

The seventh biennial Đà Lạt Flower Festival kicked off on Saturday, attracting thousands of local and international visitors to Lâm Đồng Province.

Văn Lang Park in HCM City’s District 5 was re-opened to the public on December 22 with a colourful music water fountain.

The Đà Nẵng Museum Chăm Sculpture, in co-operation with the Southeast Asian Art Academic Programme, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, has launched the new catalogue of the Museum after a two-year project.

On the occasion of the 84th birthday of the Emperor of Japan Akihito, the Japanese Ambassador to Việt Nam, Kunio Umeda, highlights a year of special significance for Japan - Việt Nam relations.

Traditional festivals, rituals and religions of the Vietnamese are introduced thoroughly in a book compiled by late Prof Nguyễn Văn Huyên (1908-1975), as a French-educated scholar and Minister of Education of Việt Nam (1946-1975).

More culture, sports, tourism and family relating activities will be held at border areas and islands as the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism signed a MoU with the Border Guard High Command.

Villagers in Thẳm Phẩng Village in Mường Ảng District of Điện Biên Province are celebrating Tết during one of the coldest winters in the mountain region.

Many local and international artists will gather for a world-class lights show featuring traditional and contemporary music scheduled for New Year’s Eve 2018 on Nguyễn Huệ Pedestrian Street in downtown HCM City.

Phó Đức Chính (1907-30), a leader of Yên Bái Revolution (1930), asked the headsman to let him lie on his back so that he could see the blade fall. It’s reportedly that he shouted “long live Việt Nam before the blade fell.

The arts exhibition “La sourire de la mutation” (The Smile of Mutation) featuring French, Belgian and Vietnamese artists has opened at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum.

Statues of traditional sacred animals guarding the gates of temples, pagodas and relics are gradually replacing fiercer looking animals designed in China, but made in Viet Nam.

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HCM City will see a sharp increase in MICE (meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions) tourists in 2018, according to the local Department of Tourism.

 Travellers to the Mekong Delta should visit Trà Sư cajuput forest in An Giang Province to enjoy its beautiful landscapes and serenity.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations with South Korea, the ambassador of the republic in Việt Nam, Lee Hyuk, sends a message to Việt Nam News readers.