This year’s Halong Tourism Festival at the World Heritage site of Halong Bay will take Hanoi as its theme to celebrate the 1,000 birthday of the capital city. According to Nhu Thi Hong Lien, Deputy Chairwoman of the Quang Ninh provincial People’s Committee, the province called on all economic sectors and domestic and foreign businesses [...]

Danang will host its second Craft Village Festival from May 19-23, attracting more than 100 fine arts and handicraft stands from 60 traditional craft villages across the country. All the proceeds from the event will be used to support craft villages that find themselves in difficulty to maintain and develop their crafts. During the five-day [...]

Boat racing at Dam Village Festival is a pentennial event which occurs every five years at Tay Tuu, Tu Liem. Hanoi. This year, there were 6 teams from 3 communes taking part in this racing. Photos: Pham Quoc Dung.

Vietnam’s first-ever national fruit festival got underway in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang on April 19. Special fruits from all over the country, equipment for growing fruit and advanced technologies for agriculture are all on display. On the first day of the fair, a competition for safe and delicious fruits was held and [...]

The Diamond Princess cruise ship, with over 2,600 tourists aboard and 1,500 staff crew, anchored in the central city of Nha Trang on April 19, after visiting Ho Chi Minh City. 1,700 visitors from the ship made a one-day tour of the city, including the Cai river, Ponagar tower, villages such Lu Cam ceramic village, [...]

The People’s Committee of Ba Vi district held “Ba Vi Tourism Week”, entitled “Da River-Tan Mountain Tourism”, in response to the National Tourism Year 2010 and towards the Great Festival to mark 1,000 years of Thang Long-Hanoi. Various art performances and special sports events, such as dragon dance, parachuting, and water-skiing will also held during [...]

A series of cultural, art and sporting events were held at the Kinh Bac Culture Centre in Bac Ninh City on April 15 as part of the Bac Ninh Festival 2010 as well as celebrating 35 years of Vietnamese-German diplomatic ties. The activities, including an arts exchange programme, a child painting contest on sewage and [...]

The national commemoration of the Hung Kings and the Hung Temple Festival is a vivid manifestation the great national unity, showing the national responsibility to the country’s founders, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has said. Deputy PM Nhan made the statement at the opening ceremony of the annual festival to commemorate nation’s founders and [...]

In the fading sunlights at the end of the day, Hanoi appears brilliant and romatic. Enjoy a shot of Hanoi in the sunset taken by Xuan Chinh from above: Hanoi in the rainbow

Over 40 foreign art troupes from 31 countries of five continents will participate in Hue Festival 2010 in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue from June 5-13 with the theme “Cultural Heritage with Integration and Development” towards the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi, the 50th anniversary of sister cities of Hanoi [...]