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Foreign tourists and expatriates in the HCMC can participate in a poll of the 100 most existing sites or activities in HCMC from now until the middle of November. The aim is to present to visitors a complete image of the city and attract more guests. | |
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The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Ben Tre will stage a five-day festival starting on January 15 in honour of its native fruit, the coconut, provincial officials said at a press conference. The festival is timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Dong Khoi Ben Tre, or the uprising of local residents against the US-backed Sai Gon regime. | |
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Foreign tourists and expatriates in the HCMC can participate in a poll of the 100 most existing sites or activities in HCMC from now until the middle of November. The aim is to present to visitors a complete image of the city and attract more guests. | |
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HCMC, the country’s biggest tourism center, has mapped out a plan for launching a tourism marketing campaign at home and abroad to speed up a recovery of the sector hurt by the global downturn last year. La Quoc Khanh, Deputy Director of municipal Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism said that the department would ask for a budget of VND12 billion, VND3 billion higher than last year, to finance the campaign. | |
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The Ooc Om Boc Festival, an annual festival of ethnic Khmer people in the Mekong Delta, opened at Ho Nuoc Ngot Cultural Park in Soc Trang Province on October 28. This year’s event was organized more imposingly than ever with government support of VND1.3 billion. | |
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A ceremony to inaugurate the statue of Emperor Quang Trung, who defeated Qing Dynasty’s 200, 000 troops out of Vietnam in the spring of 1789, was held at the Ban Mountain square in the ancient imperial city of Hue on January 9... | |
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Nine stories of the lives, dreams and struggles of people living in the three Mekong River sub-regional countries of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia are now spotlighted at an exhibition in Hanoi. “Mekong’s story: Challenge and dream, ” a mobile exhibition that opened at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology on November 25 aims to enhance intangible values and reflect the challenges the nations are facing in ensuring balance between preservation of cultural identities and development. | |
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Foreign tourists and expatriates in the HCMC can participate in a poll of the 100 most existing sites or activities in HCMC from now until the middle of November. The aim is to present to visitors a complete image of the city and attract more guests. | |
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The Kien Giang world biosphere reserve was recognised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on October 27, 2006. Located on more than 1, 000ha, the biosphere covers sea, island and land, including U Minh Thuong and Phu Quoc National Parks, Kien Luong-Ha Tien protective forests and mangrove forests. | |
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A conference entitled “Promoting investment in culture, sports and tourism fields in Southern provinces” was held in the Dai Nam Tourist Resort in Binh Duong Province on November 28 by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST). | |
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