Phu Quoc Island off the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang — dubbed Vietnam’s ‘pearl island’ thanks to its pristine beauty — is facing a trash crisis that threatens to undermine its image as a tourist paradise.
Experts from the British Royal Caves Association (BCRA) have found 12 new caves with a total length of over 10 kilometres, as announced by the Quang Binh provincial Department of Tourism.
Director of the Culture Ministry’s Cinematography Department Vi Kiến Thành has assigned the Central Documentary and Science Film Studio to produce a documentary on preventing and fighting COVID-19 later this year.
All supermarkets, trade centres, convenience stories, and bookstores in Ho Chi Minh City are striving to replace plastic bags with environmentally friendly options by the end of this year.
The northern province of Quang Ninh plans to build a “heritage road” through art works along the Ha Long-Cam Pha-Van Don coastal route.
One of the rarest turtles in the world, the giant Swinhoe’s softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) was believed to only have three individuals surviving, two in Vietnam and one in China. However, a recent survey of Dong Mo Lake on the outskirts of Hanoi has raised hopes that there are currently four living individuals.
The song titled “Walking”, a co-compostion by Vietnamese-French pianist and zither artist Tri Nguyen and Canadian percussionist Graeme Drum won the World Beat Song title at the 18th Independent Music Awards (IMAs).
Hoi An, once a major Southeast Asian trading post in the 16th and 17th centuries, is basically a living museum that houses old-town architecture.Some notable heritage buildings include Chinese temples, a Japanese-designed bridge, pagodas, wooden shop-houses, French-colonial houses, and old canals.
You will never be stuck for something to do in Hanoi, where ancient and proudly preserved Vietnamese culture is felt most keenly by visitors, and progress wrestles with tradition in different districts of the city.
In Vietnam, there is one place that deserves to be visited by more people: Quy Nhon. Even though it is not considered as a tourist destination, this medium-sized town is bordered by stunning beaches and the countryside that surrounds it is also breathtaking.
Foreigners will enjoy uniform entrance fees to relic sites in Vietnam paying the same price as Vietnamese, starting from January 13.
