After 50 years of studying water puppetry, one researcher is bringing the Vietnamese art back to the countryside.
The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology will celebrate the 2009 Lunar New Year with a wide range of cultural activities from January 29, 2009 to February 1, 2009 (from the fourth to the seventh day of the first month of the Lunar year).
If you are a patient person who loves nature and are looking for an experience that includes a large, open space with blue skies, emerging waterways filled by green plants and where you can hear songs of thousands of birds, then one of the places in Viet Nam you should explore is Tram Chim National Park in Tam Nong Ward, Dong Thap Province in the Mekong Delta of Viet Nam.
Archaeologists and other experts gathered last week at the Phat Tich Paogda in the northern province of Bac Ninh to discuss how to proceed with restoration of the historic structure in light of recent discoveries on the site.
Part of a cajuput forest and stretching nearly 1,700 hectares, Gao Giong Ecotourist Park is among the largest tourist sites in southern Dong Thap Province. It is situated about 20 kilometers from Cao Lanh Town along National Highway 30.
Between one and two million baby turtles crawl from their birthplace along Nicaragua's Pacific coast into the sea every year. This occurs between the months of July and December when hundreds of thousands of sea turtles migrate to Nicaragua's coasts to lay eggs in the country's white-sand beaches.
InnovGreen is the only forestry enterprise in the foreign economic sector to win the environment-friendly title, part of the Rong Vang (Golden Dragon) prize, to be announced in Hanoi on January 10, 2009.
The Bao Son Group officially inaugurated a park in Hoai Duc district of Hanoi on Jan. 10, 2009 marking it first in the country offering a wide range of attractions that promote Vietnamese traditional culture.
Planning on visiting Taiwan? Leave your Marlboros at home.Taiwanese authorities on Sunday, January 11, 2009 banned smoking in all indoor public places in what anti-smoking activists say is a 'milestone' in turning Taiwan into a smoke-free island.
HCM City’s cai luong (reformed theatre) artists are preparing a variety of new and engaging shows that they hope will light up the local stage during the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year).