Vietnam ’s Ha Long Bay won second largest number of international votes over the past four weeks in the campaign voting for the world’s seven new natural wonders. The information was released by the NewOpenWorld on its website www.new7wonders.com on August 16.
More than 28,400 artefacts unearthed at six excavation sites in the Son La Hydro-electricity Plant reservoir construction site have been handed over to the Dien Bien Museum.
More than 200 documents, objects and photos to retell magnificent periods in Hanoi’s history are being showcased at an exhibition opened at Ho Chi Minh Museum in the capital city on August 17.
An exhibition entitled, “Urban planning and administrative boundaries of Hanoi in the period 1873-1954" opened at the National Archives Centre I in Hanoi on Aug. 16 as part of celebrations of the millennium of the capital city.
An exhibition entitled “Dingbats Brazil†will be held at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum on August 21-30.
Fifteen outstanding tour guides from travel agents across the country attended the final round of a contest held in Hanoi on August 15 by the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism to honour the profession and set standards for tourism.
A Vietnam Cultural Week will open in Brussels, Belgium from September 1-4 to mark Vietnam as ASEAN chair, Belgium as EU president, and Hanoi’s 1,000th anniversary.
Hundreds of artisans from the Coi Xua Handicraft and Export Co in Van Lam craft village in the northern province of Ninh Binh have gathered to make an enormous embroidery entitled Coi Xua (Old Origins) to celebrate the Hanoi's 1,000th anniversary and express their love for the capital city.
Tourism enterprises from both China and HCMC are pinning high hopes on a road show held here on August 11 by China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) as visitors arrivals between the two sides are rising by double-digit rates.
One hundred outstanding Vietnamese and German students visited the Bai Dinh pagoda, which is considered the biggest one in Southeast Asia, in the northern province of Ninh Binh on August 14.
An exhibition depicting the close link between the ancient capital of Thang Long and Ha Long Bay over the past 1,000 years of history opened on August 12 in Tuan Chau international resort in the coastal city of Ha Long , Quang Ninh province.
A photo exhibition on Ha Long Bay opened in New York on Aug. 11 as part of campaign to vote for Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay as world natural wonder.