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A cultural tourism festival welcoming the Lunar New Year will be organised in the southern coastal province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau between January 22 and February 2. It will introduce tourism, history, tradition and culture via various activities, according to Ho Van Nien, vice chairman of the provincial People’s Committee. The festival will be opened [...]
Diverse cultural, tourism and sports events are taking place across the country to welcome the upcoming lunar New Year Festival (Tet) – the Year of the Buffalo. The main streets in Nha Trang city of central coastal Khanh Hoa province are bedecked with flowers, colorful lanterns, slogans and flags to welcome Tet. The director of [...]
They are well-educated women who have good jobs, but they look to the supernatural to help them find happiness. Praying to Buddha for dream lovers Ha Pagoda in Hanoi has long been a place for single people to pray for love and marriage. Youngsters go to the pagoda with the belief that Buddha understands their [...]
The Bac Ninh Quan Ho folk music (love duets) troupe has collected and catalogued over 400 songs and more than 200 Quan Ho songs which are unique and intrinsic to this Northern locality. Most of the folk music songs are about love and relationships, love for the homeland and close friendship, and collecting and cataloguing [...]
Hanoi authorities have agreed, in principle, the building of a flower road around Hoan Kiem Lake. According to the city’s Vice Chairwoman Ngo Thi Thanh Hang, this will be one of the key tasks of the city to promote tourism the capital city in 2009. The official assigned the Hanoi Department of Culture, Sports and [...]
With Valentine’s this year coming at the weekend more couples were able to spend time together. From early evening, the city’s streets were crowded with Valentines. Some streets, like Cach Mang Thang Tam, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Ton That Tung, Cao Thang, Le Loi and the Quach Thi Trang roundabout, became completely jammed. Restaurants and [...]
A famous music professor in HCM City before 1975, Nguyen Mai has been teaching traditional Vietnamese music in the US for nearly two decades with her 36-chord zither. Nguyen Mai taught traditional music and how to play the 36-chord zither in Saigon, or HCM City at present. She went to the US in 1975 before [...]
Bat Trang ceramics artisans and producers are mobilising to make them more competitive against imports being sold in the village, some under the local brand name. The local products are hand-made and individually crafted with each one being different, whereas the imported are produced in bulk at a lower temperature using cheaper glazes. Local authorities [...]
Short traditional tuong (classical drama) pieces and performances featuring cultural aspects of central Vietnam, as well as renewed stage and services, are some of the changes taking place at Nguyen Hien Dinh Opera House in Danang City. The opera house is looking for ways to survive so that it can promote traditional Vietnamese art to [...]
Address: 88 Ha Long Road, Bai Chay Beach Phone: (84-33) 846.888 City: Halong, Vietnam Ha Long Bay is one of the natural wonders of the world, covering 1,533 sq.km. with 1,969 islands. Take a cruise around the islands and enjoy breath-taking scenary of naturally-formed rocks and limestones. Visit the local attractions…..or simply work on t [...]