The Luxury Travel Company has been voted for the prestigious Guide Awards for Excellent Performance 2009. The 10th annual awards ceremony will be held in the White Palace, 194 Hoang Van Thu St, Ho Chi Minh City on June 5, 2009.
The Quang Binh administration has revealed that an English potholing team has discovered a cave believed to be the biggest in the world, in the Phong Nha-Ke Bang world natural heritage site.
Phat Tich Pagoda in the northern province of Bac Ninh will be home to the world’s largest jade Buddha statue from May 16 to 22 in celebration of Buddha’s 2553rd birth anniversary and the 2553rd year of the Buddhist calendar.
Danish ambassador in Vietnam Peter Lysolt Hansen inaugurated ceramic picture made by Michael Geertsen artist and Vietnamese artisans in April 16. It's a part of "Ceramic road along the banks of Red River" project
An exhibition entitled “Vietnam cultural space†opened in Paris on April 18 with the attendance of Vietnamese ambassador to UNESCO Van Nghia Dung and President of the Vietnamese Association in France, Vo Si Dan.
A 430m² relief carved from blue stone that recreates the historic Dien Bien Phu victory in 1954 received approval from an arts council of Dien Bien Province on April 20.
Thousands of people from different ethnic groups across the country gathered to join the Day of Vietnam’s Ethnic Cultures that was held for the first time in Hanoi’s Son Tay Town over the weekend.
A large number of people have booked domestic and foreign tours to take advantage of a long weekend spanning Liberation Day and Labour Day on April 30 and May 1, according to tourism companies.
The national flagship Vietnam Airlines will hold the 2009 Vietnam Sea Festival in Paris, France on April 28-29 to promote tourism and attract foreign visitors, especially from France and Europe, to tourist sites in Vietnam.
Traditional music and dances of the Cham, Khmer, Hoa and Kinh communities were performed on April 15 to celebrate the first ever Vietnamese Ethnic Groups’ Culture Day on April 19.
The Anh Binh Minh Traditional Art Troupe of Tra Vinh Province has lined up a range of shows to celebrate the Khmer New Year, Chol Chnam Thmay, from April 13-15.
A photo exhibition of photographer Sergio Sanz Egea, showcasing Vietnam’s people and landscapes, was held in Zaragoza, Spain, on April 1.