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Kite festival to take off in October
The Hanoi Open Kite Festival taking place this October will just be a taste of what’s to come, as the International Kite Festival in 2010 hopes to draw 30 countries to the capital city’s skyline.
Miss Vietnam to exhibit nude photos
Miss Vietnam 2006 Mai Phuong Thuy has revealed she will display nearly 100 photos of herself posing nude “in keeping with Vietnamese culture and tradition” but is discreet regarding to what extent her nudity goes.
2.6 million foreign visitors arrive in 7 months
More than 2.6 million foreigners visited Vietnam in the past seven months of this year, an increase of 10.7 percent from a year ago, according to the General Statistics Office.
Vietnamese film enters int’l cancer film festival
Vietnam’s Uoc mo cua Thuy (Thuy’s dream) was selected as one of 40 finalists for the first international documentary film festival on cancer which will be held in Switzerland next month.
Sa Pa feels the burden of too many tourists
It’s no secret that Sa Pa Town is one of the country’s most beloved tourist destinations for local and international travellers but as traffic increases, so does the burden on the town’s service industry.
Woman brings Nom script to the world
Nom, Vietnamese script which was used to record the country’s history from the 10th to the 20th centuries and is facing oblivion, has been digitalised and will be uploaded to the Internet by some overseas Vietnamese researchers. One of them is Ms. Shih Jing-yi or Sinh.
Sports movie festival, prizes fairly divided - Vietnam Sports and Tourism Movie Centre
All seven participating countries won prizes at the 4th Hanoi International FICTS Festival, which closed in Hanoi on June 8.
Prodigy brings City sweet sounds
Fifteen-year-old Anna Sowanna Takeda, a Thai-Japanese violinist will perform in a concert at the Hcm city Conservatory of Music on June 6.
HCM City greeted more than 1.2 million foreigners in five months
In May, the number of foreign tourists to Ho chi minh (HCM) City continued to rise to 195,000, an increase of 12 percent against the same period last year, said the HCM City Tourism Department.
Diverse activities to mark International Children’s Day
A forum to protect the rights of Vietnamese children will be held on May 31 as part of activities in response to the Action Month for Children and International Children’s Day (June 1).
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