A set of tools used to hunt and tame wild elephants was presented to the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology on February 15 in Dak Lak province by Doctor Kham Phet Lao, the 11th son and official heir of the legendary “King of Elephants” Ama Kong.
An annual festival featuring the cultural colours of Vietnam’s 54 ethnic groups, as seen through their New Year celebrations, will take place at the Culture Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups in Son Tay town, Hanoi, from February 15-17.
One of the biggest spring festivals of Viet Nam, the Tran Temple festival, opened last night in the northern Thai Binh province.
The People's Committee of central coastal Khanh Hoa province plans to spend VND95billion (US$4.5 million) to develop the Hon Ba nature reserve until 2020.
(TITC) - In the framework of ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) 2014, ASEAN Green Hotel Award 2014 ceremony was held on January 19, 2014 at Pullman Hotel in Malaysia.
Recently, the management board of the Saola Natural Reserve have said that they had discovered and released into the natural environment a Truong Son muntjac, which weighs about 7kg.
A 13-root banyan in Trai 1 village, Ngo Quyen district, the northern port city of Hai Phong, has been recognised as a national heritage tree.
The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee on February 9 launched the 2014 Tet tree-planting festival for young people in Chi Linh town, northern Hai Duong province.
The central city of Hoi An will promote the use of bicycles this year as part of a plan to build the city into the first eco-city in Viet Nam.
Forests in the Central Highlands region are shrinking rapidly, losing nearly 130,000 hectares during the 2007-12 period due to shortcomings in management and protection.