Nha Trang organizes boat race at sea for the first time

The south central province of Khanh Hoa has organised a boat race in Nha Trang Bay for the first time from June 8-12 to mark the Nha Trang Sea Festival 2009. The event involves 6 sailboats from the US, the UK, France, Canada, Australia and Vietnam, each having 2 racers sailing from Ana Mandara Resort to [...]   Detail

Fireworks light up Nha Trang Sea Festival

Fireworks, music and art performances lit up the coastal city of Nha Trang on the opening night of this year’s Sea Festival on June 6. Le Xuan Than, Vice President of Khanh Hoa Provincial People’s Committee and head of organising board, said this year’s Sea Festival was an opportunity for Khanh Hoa Province and Nha Trang [...]   Detail

Coloured lantern night gala attracts thousands of tourists

More than 500 actors and actresses performed in the colourful closing ceremony of the fourth Quang Nam - Heritage Journey Festival held in the central coastal city of Hoi An on the evening of June 6. The night gala featured many artistic shows on the poetic banks of the Thu Bon River, including that depicting peaceful [...]   Detail

Lang Co Bay joins world-class bays

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue held a ceremony on June 6 to announce the recognition of Lang Co Bay as the 30th member of the “World’s Most Beautiful Bays” club (Worldbays Club). Lying between Danang and Hue cities, Lang Co is the third bay in Vietnam being admitted to the club following Halong Bay and [...]   Detail

Exhibitions on Cham pottery open in Khanh Hoa

Exhibitions of the pottery of the Cham community opened in Nha Trang City, the central province of Khanh Hoa on June 4. At Ponagar Tower, sculptor Doan Xuan Hung introduces 100 works depicting the daily lives of people in the Cham community. The exhibition mainly displays images of loving, candid moments between women and their children. Moreover, in [...]   Detail

Bac Ha horse race 2009

The opening Bac Ha horse race took place in Bac Ha Town, Lao Cao Province in the morning of May, 30, 2009. This is Bac Ha District’s annual activity to respond the tourism programmer “Returning the Roots” of three provinces: Lao Cai, Yen Bai, Phu Tho. Besides tourism advantages such as: landscape, Tam Hoa plum, Bac [...]   Detail

Traditional pottery products on display in capital

On May 29, the People’s Committee of Hoan Kiem District has opened an exhibition to promote traditional Vietnamese pottery products made in handicraft villages nationwide. The villages include Bat Trang in Hanoi, Chu Dau in Hai Duong, Tho Ha in Bac Giang and Phu Lang in Bac Ninh. The exhibition which will last until June 1, aims [...]   Detail

Hanoi introduces its encyclopedic books

Hanoi’s People Committee on May 27 presented to the public a collection of encyclopedic books depicting the thousand-year culture of Thang Long, Hanoi today. The books, encompassing four volumes with more than 10,000 pages and 5,000 color and black-and-white pictures, maps and paintings, portray the changes across all areas of Hanoi since its founding in 1010 [...]   Detail

Unique kites welcome capital millennium celebrations

Around 100 unique flute kites are taking off to the sky at a traditional kite festival to be held in Dong Anh District, Hanoi, on May 28. Co-organised by the district People’s Committee and the Thang Long Kite Club, the event aims to mark 500 days left before the celebrations of Thang Long-Hanoi’s 1,000th anniversary which [...]   Detail

Hanoi to receive record-setting silk picture for 1000th birthday

An embroidery picture named Uoc nguyen ngan nam Thang Long for the 1000th birthday of Hanoi will set a record for being the largest embroidery picture ever produced in Vietnam. The hand-embroidered picture is 4m-long, 3m-wide and 167.5kg weight. Especially this numbers multiplied together will make 2010, the year of the 1000th birthday of Thang Long [...]   Detail

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