The southern Tra Vinh provincial museum has collected 326 objects of antiquity of Khmer ethnic minority groups. The inventory includes 238 objects related to fishing and agriculture and 88 objects related to painting.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on May 14 officially recognised official documents of the Nguyen Dynasty as a world documentary heritage, according to the State Records and Archives Department.
Viet Nam ranked 2nd among the top 10 best value holiday destinations, according to leading global travel search site Skyscanner.
Over the past decade, the tourism sector in the central city of Da Nang has been developing sea tourism brand of its own, the Vietnam Economic News reported on May 14.
An estimated 344,000 tourists visited Van Don district, the northern province of Quang Ninh in the first four months of this year, fulfilling 47 percent of the year’s target and a year-on-year rise of 36 percent.
The construction of the Tay Yen Tu spiritual cultural area will begin on May 17 in Tuan Mau commune, Son Dong district in the northern province of Bac Giang.
Ha Long Bay deemed a World Heritage site in 1994 in the northern province of Quang Ninh has been cited as one of the top eight most beautiful landscapes in the world by mymodernmet.com.
A seminar on preserving and promoting folk values in modern society will be held on May 14-15 as an activity of the compilation of a dossier on Vi-Giam folk singing for UNESCO recognition as a world intangible cultural heritage.
A conference was held in Dien Bien province on May 6 to discuss ways to boost links for tourism development in the northwestern region.
An exhibition introducing Viet Nam’s cultural heritage opened in Perth city on May 6 on the occasion of the Western Australian Heritage Festival 2014, which is taking place from April 18.
(TITC) - On April 29th 2014, in Ha Noi, Deputy Director General of VNAT Nguyen Manh Cuong had a meeting with delegation of Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) led by Mr Anthony Lau, Executive Director.
The travel page of the US magazine National Geographic has named Viet Nam’s Chung (square) and Day (round) cakes among the world’s outstanding celebration dishes.