Vietnam occupies 4 spots among top 25 Asian destinations

      The TripAdvisor awards ceremony was held in Singapore on Tuesday, Vietnam News Agency reported. It said Hanoi and HCMC ranked 14th and 15th respectively, while the ancient town of Hoi An was 17th, and Ha Long, the world famous bay in the northern...

Close-up to 120-year-old Huynh Thuy Le house in Can Tho

Many people saw the house in the film – which featured Jane March and Tony Leung Ka-fai as a French girl and a Chinese man who fell in love in 1920s Vietnam – and have made the journey to Dong Thap to visit it. The house is located in Nguyen Hue Road, Sa Dec Town,...

New cave larger than world’s largest cave discovered

The newly discovered cave is two kilometer long. It is seven kilometer shorter and 30-50m wider than the 200m high and 150m wide Son Doong Cave. While studying the Son Doong Cave, the US and British scientists found a collapsed one running in the north-south direction...

Festival honoring values of heritages

On the morning of May 7, Quang Nam provincial authorities announced the operations that will be held during the Quang Nam Heritage Festival this year, including a street carnival with the participation of 11 international choral groups and some 200 artists from...

Hanoi serves up an unlikely beverage

  Be it summer or the rainy season in Ho Chi Minh City, I tend to tackle the heat somewhat differently these days. It is not an iced tea or an iced coffee that I turn to for relief, but a hot café trứng (egg coffee), which is a Hanoi specialty favored...