International visitors to Viet Nam in May estimated 972,844 arrivals, decrease 9.2% over last month and up 26.8% over the same period last year. Total international arrivals in 5 months reached 5,256,974 arrivals, increase 29.6% over the same period last year.
Cheo plays to grace Ha Noi stage every week
From this June, Hanoians can enjoy cheo (traditional Vietnamese opera) plays every Saturday night at Dai Nam theatre.
Spectacular light feast at Da Nang int’l fireworks festival
The third night of the Da Nang International Fireworks Festival on May 27 brought visitors a spectacular light feast over the Han River.
Viet Nam promotes images at Asian culture festival in Czech
Viet Nam introduced performance and cuisine arts, and tourism potential to an Asian culture festival in Prague, the Czech Republic on May 25 with the aim of promoting its images to international friends.
Museums, relic sites join hands to lure visitors
Seventeen museums and relic sites in Ha Noi have signed a memorandum of understanding on intensifying dissemination work to lure more visitors. The initiative aims to maximise each unit’s strength.
Taking a salty, spicy bite of Hai Phong cuisine
Vietnamese people have long taken pride in their banh mi, a dish named as one of the best street foods in the world by CNN (American Cable News Network), and listed in the Oxford English dictionary as ‘a Vietnamese snack consisting of a baguette (traditionally baked with both rice and wheat flour) filled with a variety of ingredients, typically including meat, pickled vegetables and chili…
Taking a salty, spicy bite of Hai Phong cuisine
Vietnamese people have long taken pride in their banh mi, a dish named as one of the best street foods in the world by CNN (American Cable News Network), and listed in the Oxford English dictionary as ‘a Vietnamese snack consisting of a baguette (traditionally baked with both rice and wheat flour) filled with a variety of ingredients, typically including meat, pickled vegetables and chili…
Bulgarian Education, Culture Day marked in Ha Noi, Ho Chi Minh City
The Viet Nam - Bulgaria Friendship Association (VBFA) hosted a ceremony to mark Bulgarian Education, Culture and Slavonic Literature Day in Ha Noi on May 24.
The 7th Southern Land Cuisine Festival
(TITC) - From 24 to 28 May 2017, the 7th Southern Land Cuisine Festival with the participations of nearly 40 units and 70 booths of cuisine specialties from the regions of Viet Nam will take place in Dam Sen Cultural Park (3 Hoa Binh Street, District 11, Ho Chi Minh City).
Phuc Giang school woodblocks displayed in Ha Noi
Phuc Giang School woodblocks, a UNESCO Documentary Heritage by Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific, are on show at an exhibition in Ha Noi that opened on May 23.
French photographer to open gallery in Ho Chi Minh City
Couleurs d’Asie by Réhahn - Sai Gon, a new gallery by Hoi An-based photographer Réhahn, will open in HCM City on June 1.
Works to preserve relic sitting between Hue, Da Nang
This is the first part of a joint action plan that Hue’s and Đa Nang’s departments of culture and sports have committed to in order to protect the historic brick Hai Van Quan gate from deterioration and human encroachment.
Mountainous district boosts homestay tourism
When it comes to homestay tourism in Viet Nam, one may think of the northwestern region. However, in the central province of Thanh Hoa, more attention has been paid to developing this service.
Yen Bai Tourism Year 2017 opens
The Yen Bai Tourism Year Festival 2017 officially began with the opening ceremony held in Yen Bai City, in the northern Yen Bai Province on the evening of May 19.
Ha Noi to host exhibitions on Belarus
A photo exhibition on Belarus will be held in Ha Noi from May 25-28 along with a show of paintings by Belarusian artist Vasily Yasyuk, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) said on May 19.