Two US naval ships, the USS Blue Ridge and USS Lassen, on November 7 anchored at the central port of Danang, beginning a four-day friendship visit to the city.
Border provinces and 60 international travel agents from southern Kien Giang to northern Lang Son provinces attended the first seminar on border tourism development in Lang Son Province on November 6, 2009.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has decided to invest VND 31 billion (around USD 1.73 million) in eight new satellite database centres that preserve information on intangible cultural heritages of ethnic groups in the country.
The Vina Media Jsc has installed the first tourism information kiosks in HCMC, realizing its plan to set up 50 such kiosks in the city over two weeks, the company’s leader said.
A project to restore King Dong Khanh’s tomb began implementation after receiving approval from the People’s Committee of Thua Thien-Hue Province.
A contest on knowledge about the heroic, thousand-year old city of Thang Long-Hanoi was launched in Vientiane on November 4. Speaking at the ceremony, Editor-in-chief of Hanoi Moi Newspaper Ho Quang Loi laid stress on the national scale of the contest which is expected to conclude in October, 2010 in coincide with the 1000-year anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.
Hanoi was among the 10 Asian cities taking part in the eighth conference of the Asian Network of Major Cities 21 (ANMC21), which was held in the Thai capital of Bangkok from October 31 to November 4.
Vietnam was named among one of the most peaceful nations in the world at a Global Symposium of Peaceful Nations held in Washington, DC, from November 1-3.
State President Nguyen Minh Triet and his Danish guests, including Queen Margrethe II, Crown Prince Prederik and Crown Princess Mary, attended the opening ceremony of a street art festival at the Ly Thai To Flower Garden in Hanoi on November 3.
A new exhibition called the Emergency Room puts artists under the pressure of daily deadlines to come up with topical new works in the ever-changing exhibition space at the Fine Arts University in Hanoi.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) will set up a centre to promote Vietnam tourism in France and other European countries, said Minister Hoang Tuan Anh.
The Hue Relic Preservation Centre (HRPC) and the National Palace Museum of the Republic of Korea (NPMK) have inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in preservation and museum work.