An emerging land of sea and sun

Belonging to the South Central Coast, Ninh Thuận is known to be the land of “little rain and too much sun and wind”. Long coastal lines with mountain ranges pointing towards the sea make bays with white sands, golden sunlight and jade green sea.

Travel agencies discuss overcoming pandemic's consequences The event aimed to discuss solutions to revive travel activities and help tourism return to its position as a national key economic sector.

US$22 for a day trip to An Giang Cajuput forests, lakes, pagodas and palm trees are the alluring features in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang.

French tourist trapped in Việt Nam during COVID sets up fried-banana stand Fried banana is a famous street food in the South and is also a childhood dish of many generations. However, this Vietnamese street food cooked by a Western man has made it even more special.

New art programme preserves tuồng

A new art programme offering tuồng, or hát bội (classical drama) performances has been launched by a group of artists in HCM City as part of their efforts to introduce Vietnamese culture and theatre to young people. 

Body parts found at Indonesian plane crash site Divers pulled body parts, wreckage and clothing from waters off Indonesia's capital Jakarta yesterday, as the military located a signal it hoped would lead to the wreckage of a jet that crashed with 62 people on board.

Indonesia budget airline jet 'suspected' to have crashed: official An Indonesian budget airline jet is "suspected" to have crashed into the sea just minutes after the Boeing 737 lost contact with air traffic control on Saturday, the country's national search and rescue agency said.

HCM City’s Book Street celebrates 5th birthday

A series of cultural and art programmes will be organised at HCM City Book Street to celebrate the street’s 5th anniversary on January 9, and promote the reading habit among the community.

With COVID-19 under control, VN tourism sector banks on domestic travel 2020’s tourism revenues were estimated at VNĐ312 trillion, equal to only 58.7 per cent of 2019’s figure.

Tourism, public security departments work to prevent crime against tourists The HCM City Department of Tourism and the Department of Public Security will work together to crack down on crimes against tourists and guarantee safety and social order.