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If you want to escape the chaos of the city, Nuoc Mooc stream in Phuc Trach Commune, Bo Trach District, in the central province of Quang Binh, is an ideal place of natural beauty. Casting about: Nuoc Mooc Stream is an ideal fishing spot. Travel from Dong Hoi City in Quang Binh north along [...]
Tourists visiting Hoi An, a UNESCO World Heritage town, will be able to surf the internet for free from the end of this year, according to the Quang Nam Province Department of Information and Communications. Ho Quang Buu, the department director, said together with the Vietnam Data Communications Area 3 and Quang Nam Telecom it [...]
Experts say Vietnam needs to do more to attract more cruise tourists to Vietnam, the country with 3200 kilometers of coastline, and wonderful bays and beaches. For the last many years, Vietnam always appears as one of the destination points in the itineraries of cruise trips that tour the Asia Pacific region. However, the number [...]
Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar will co-operate with each other in organising tours to their world cultural heritage sites, officials said at a seminar on Tuesday. The seminar focused on ways to present the four nations together as the Land of World Cultural Heritages. “I highly recommend connecting the world cultural heritages in a [...]
A Vietnamese singer who is virtually unknown to the public has decided to rise from obscurity by having his name sprayed on public spaces in Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces. Many walls, utility poles, bridges in HCMC’s Thu Duc District, Tan Binh District to District 12 and provinces of Tay Ninh, Dong Nai, [...]
A 34-year-old man had to be hospitalized Thursday after he was allegedly beaten on the head by a security guard at the Big C An Lac Supermarket in Ho Chi Minh City where he had been shopping. A reader yesterday told Tuoi Tre that Nguyen Van Duong, from Ho Chi Minh City’s District 11, took [...]
The VINASAT-1 satellite was successfully launched in 2008 and has become instrumental for the telecommunications industry. There are now developments for the VINASAT-2 satellite, and Viet Nam News sat down with Viet Nam Posts and Telecommunication’s External Relations Centre director Bui Quoc Viet to learn more. Can you tell us about the development process of [...]
Executives of Ernst & Young have urged Vietnam’s tax authorities to consider using advance pricing agreements (APA) with corporate taxpayers as a way to fight transfer pricing at both foreign-invested and domestic companies. The APA allows the taxpayer and the taxman to avoid future transfer pricing disputes by entering into a prospective agreement on the [...]
As eight provinces and cities have reported a slowdown of hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD), the Ministry of Health has decided not to announce a HFMD pandemic. The decision was announced yesterday by Deputy Minister of Health Trinh Quan Huan at an online conference with eight provinces and cities that have been most affected by HFMD: Hanoi, [...]
Vietnam has a big “gold mine” – the heritage – which is very attractive to travelers. However, Vietnam’s tourism industry still does now how to exploit the mine. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has decided to name the 2012 tourism year “the national tourism year of coastal provinces in the north of the [...]