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Spending a few days at a coastal resort on hot, dry days or visiting pagodas during summer retreats are among many things for tourists to experience. Subsidiaries of Saigontourist Holding Company are launching summer tours of various itineraries and prices so that customers can easily choose one tailored to their interests. First-class tours As an [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – Visitors to Sa Dec Town in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap can admire gardens full of colorful flowers in spring time or visit Huynh Thuy Le House where French hit movie L’amant (The Lover) was filmed. But there is another side to this area of the delta and tourists [...]
A tour of the top of Ba Na Mountain in the central coast city of Danang is never complete without a walk around the Linh Ung-Ba Na Pagoda. This is one of the three Linh Ung pagodas in Danang with the other two being Linh Ung-Bai But on Son Tra Peninsula and Linh Ung-Non Nuoc [...]
Ba Vi National Park and its surroundings will be transformed into a geopark. The news was announced by Dr. Tram Tan Van, head of theInstitute of Geosciences and Mineral at the 2ndgeopark international conference, recently held inVietnam. Mr. Van remarked that Ba Vi National Park and its surroundings have still kept many sites of natural heritage, including ancient volcano activity and cultural values associated with [...]
Vietnamese firms are becoming more aware of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in terms of building brand, securing key staff and winning future contracts, said a recent report. For them, enhancing public attitude towards the brand is seen as most important (93 percent), followed by Investor Relations (89 percent) and Staff Recruitment and Retention (86 percent), [...]
German Falko Goetz will be the head coach of Vietnam ’s national football squad and Olympic team for the next two years. Goetz, 49, and Tran Quoc Tuan, Secretary General of the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) signed a contract in Hanoi on June 6. The new coach said he hoped that with 30 years of [...]
Vietnam always attaches importance to Vietnam-Laos special relations and does its best to foster those ties, affirmed General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. General Secretary Trong, who doubles as National Assembly Chairman, made this affirmation while receiving Cheuang Sombounkhan, Minister-cum-Chief of the Lao Government Secretariat, in Hanoi on June 6. The Vietnamese Party leader expressed his [...]
Hard hours and low pay – a worker’s long day in IZ Doi Moi – ‘economic renovation’ – has brought thousands of factories to Vietnam where production lines run two and three shifts, churning out goods for the world. What’s it like to be one of the millions of young women who work in these IZ [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – Senior artists and stage critics say existing Vietnamese dramas aren’t reflecting modern life. A scene from a historical drama of the HCM City Drama Theatre. “Stage art is a spiritual weapon, which reflects the urgent matters of society. But our artists have neglected this mission,” said senior artist Dao Quang. In the [...]
The tourist season has begun but signs of sector recovery are few and far between. Foreign tourists are going to tour HCM City with Vespa motorbikes The number of foreign tourists to Vietnam in the first nine months of 2009 decreased by 16.6 percent over the same period of the previous year. Eight out of [...]