A programme of Vietnamese poetry and a painting exhibition opened in the Centre for Vietnamese Culture in France on July 2.
The museum of the central province of Binh Thuan has unearthed a 2,500 year-old earring, the first of its kind ever to be found in the province, according to museum official.
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and host Vietnam will exhibit tourism projects in HCMC during the tourism investment forum, one of the activities of the International Travel Expo 2011 in HCMC scheduled for September this year.
Vietnam, especially the interesting life in Hanoi , is vividly featured in the first edition of ASIES, a new French magazine spotlighting Asia, which hit newspaper shelves in France early June, this year.
Ship HMNZS TE MANA of New Zealand ’s Navy with 27 officers and 148 sailors aboard arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on June 27, beginning a five-day visit to the locality.
UNESCO recognised the Ho Dynasty in the central province of Thanh Hoa as World Cultural Heritage site on June 27.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Tokyo and Japan’s NHK Broadcasting Corporation hosted an exchange to introduce Vietnam’s country and people on June 24.
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has highlighted a plan to develop the Nui Coc Lake national tourism area in the northern mountainous province of Thai Nguyen until 2020 with a vision to 2030.
The first meeting of the Steering Committee and the Organizing Board for the 2012 National Tourism Year recently took place in the old imperial city of Hue. Thua Thien Hue Province will host nine master events during the year.
The 2011 Da Nang Summer Destination Festival officially kicked off at the Bien Dong (East Sea) Park in the central city of Da Nang on June 25.
The event marks the 35th anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam-Thailand diplomatic ties (August 6).
State President Nguyen Minh Triet on June 22, 2011 attended a ground-breaking ceremony for the restoration and embellishment of a memorial area dedicated to late President Ho Chi Minh in the southernmost province of Ca Mau.