High-speed boat service between HCM City, Bình Dương launched

A new high-speed boat service between HCM City and outlying Củ Chi District through Bình Dương Province was launched on Friday (July 10).

City decides to change agency managing inland waterway ports The HCM City Department of Transport’s Management Centre of Waterway System will take over the administration of 11 inland waterway ports and wharves within a month.

Tourism hopes for the Mekong Delta

The Mekong Delta is full of rivers and rice fields. It also has things of cultural interest and of environmental interest for tourists to see.

Mekong Delta's bounty of riches waiting to be explored

Often referred to as the rice bowl of Việt Nam for its emerald-green rice paddies, the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta is rich in unspoiled countryside and peaceful rural settlements, an alluring region for nature and culture lovers.

Workshop discusses HCM City’s key medical tourism products Developing medical tourism products is not only in line with the global development trend, but will also contribute to diversifying the city’s tourism products and tourism sector development.

HCM City takes steps to meet tourism goals

Bùi Tá Hòang Vũ, director of the HCM City’s Department of Tourism, talks to Người Lao Động (The Labourer) newspaper about HCM City’s efforts to improve its tourism environment to meet the target of 8.5 million foreign visitors and 32 million domestic visitors this year.

Water-bus services prove popular in HCM City

The city’s water buses provided services to about 900,000 passengers in the first 11 months of the year, up by 155 per cent compared with the same period last year, according to the HCM City Department of Transport.

Tourism set to return to Bạch Đằng Wharf

The HCM City’s People's Committee has approved the use of Bạch Đằng Wharf once again for river-based tourism after a three-year gap.

Public investment projects need tighter control

Financial experts talks to Youth Newspaper on several ways to avoid the misuse of the tax payers’ money in public projects

Tủa Chùa: Điện Biên’s unpolished natural gem

It seems that nowhere else in the northern province of Điện Biên is quite like Tủa Chùa District. Most of the district, located 1,400m above sea level, is covered with rugged rocky mountains. Along with the district’s frequent yet unpredictable natural calamities like landslides and severe thunderstorms, the topography convinces people of the harshness of the land.