Puppeteer makes a splash with home-made homage to his art

There are no ticket booths at the door or any ticket collectors hanging around, and visitors are simply led upstairs inside what appears to be a normal, three-storey Vietnamese home on a small lane deep off the capital city's bustling Kham Thien Street.

Trying medicinal bathing with the Dao

Medicinal bathing is a local feature of the indigenous Red Dao in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai.

Pollution taints national icon

Several areas of Ha Long Bay, Quang Ninh Province, are seriously polluted. A test conducted by the bay's management board in June revealed that water near the shore contained excessive quantities of oil, although 43 other locations across the bay were not polluted.

UK experts to promote tours exploring caves

The central province of Quang Binh has invited two leading cave researchers from the UK to help publicise cave tours as a way to develop the province’s adventure tourism sector.

RoK festival spotlights Vietnamese culture

The second Vietnam Cultural Festival took place in the city of Uijeongbu in the Republic of Korea on November 4. st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }

Langurs released into nature reserve

The forest management board in the northern province of Ninh Binh last Thursday released two Delacour's langurs (Trachypithecus delacouri) in the Van Long wetland sanctuary in the province's Gia Vien District. st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }

Lang Son Then festival gets underway

A national festival featuring Then singing and Tinh lute music got underway in the northern province of Lang Son on November 4. st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }

Reserves to save protected species

Viet Nam will establish a large system of biodiversity conservation areas in order to preserve endangered animal and plant species and ecosystems, said Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Bui Cach Tuyen. st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }

Nation targets sustainable tourism

Tourism can have a devastating impact on fragile environments and local communities if unplanned or not properly managed, heard a conference on responsible tourism held in the capital city yesterday (November 2).

Hoi An launches rubbish recycling programme

The central city of Hoi An yesterday (October 31) launched its first rubbish classification programme in the four major precincts of Minh An, Son Phong, Cam Tho and Tan An, said the city's vice chairman Nguyen Van Dung. st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }