With food tours becoming a hot trend, Lạng Sơn Province has joined the moment with an announcement of a combo of six new products in an effort to energise local tourism.
Promoting tourism in the north-western region should not harm the cultural identity of ethnic people and natural resources, factors that make the region attractive to tourists, culture minister has said.
Nguyen Ngoc Trong shot a hole-in-one to claim a Mercedes-Benz E200 worth
US$100,000 at the Laguna Golf Classic 2015 in the central province at
the weekend.
More than 100 golfers from Asia and Viet Nam will compete in the
inaugural Laguna Classic amateur golf tournament at Laguna Lang Co Golf
Club later this week.
Viet Nam earlier this month, for the second time in
four years, was named Golf Destination of the Year for Asia &
Australasia by the International Association of Golf Tour Operators
(IAGTO).
Chris Solarz from the US and Jennifer Pasiciel from
Canada won the men''s and women''s 42km competition at the first Laguna
Lang Co Marathon races yesterday.
A CD collection of tai tu pieces performed and recorded by Meritorious Artist Ba Tu, one of the region''s most famous musicians in cai luong (reformed opera), has been released in Long An Province.
HCM City will celebrate the annual Lang Ong – Ba
Chieu Festival to mark the death anniversary of General Le Van Duyet
(1764-1832) at his temple in Binh Thanh District on Sunday (Sept. 13).
Two albums of vinyl records (analog recordings) were
released recently in HCM City, introducing a new element in the local
industry that is dominated by digital CDs and DVDs.
An exhibition in the capital will feature a 100
photographs of communal houses throughout the north which will showcase
the beauty of these structures as well as the threats these face with
the advent of modernity.
The 2015 National Theatrical Arts Contest, which
concluded on Monday, showed not just the diversity of Viet Nam''s
performing arts community, but also the problems that have been facing
it for decades.
Vietnamese traditional musical language, xam or busking, has been used for the very first time to communicate social issues in a music video entitled Xam Tra Da (Iced Tea Busking).
