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Young Vietnamese wins int’l photo awards

12:38 | 05/11/2013

(VOV) - Nguyen Hoang Hiep has won two prizes in the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards (SWPA) with his photograph entitiled ‘Storm.

Sapa in the clouds festival

10:41 | 05/06/2013

(VOV) - More than 33,000 visitors, including 1,503 foreigners, have gathered for a week-long festival in Sapa district, Lao Cai province.

Tourist arrivals increase sharply

12:06 | 05/02/2013

(VOV) - The number of tourist arrivals increased sharply during the past five-day holiday in celebration of National Reunification Day and May Day.

Making our way up Mount Fansipan

10:47 | 03/25/2013

(VOV) - Mount Fansipan is only half as tall as Mount Everest. Yet this mountain, perched at the eastern edge of the Himalayan range in Vietnam’s uppermost Lao Cai province, is hardly an easy climb.

Hanoi – a beer drinker's haven

12:14 | 10/01/2012

Hanoi has been named one of the cheapest and best places to drink fresh beer in Asia by travel guides and journalists, thanks to its lively drinking culture.

A matter of eyes

09:44 | 09/03/2012

A romantic landscape of verdant, terraced rice fields stretches into the distance, but there’s nothing romantic for someone working knee-deep in mud, sweat running down their bodies and bent over so they see nothing but the soil in front of them.

Cloud computing to revolutionise Vietnamese technology sector

11:40 | 07/01/2012

Cloud computing has been described as a “technological tsunami” and according to recent figures, the phenomenon has hit Vietnam with force.

Japanese guitarist to perform Vietnamese folksong

12:25 | 05/24/2012

Japan’s famous guitarist Yamada Gaku will perform at a concert in Ho Chi Minh City on May 29 together with local artist Nguyen Tri Doan, a member of the Saigon guitar club.

Sapa's Festival in the Clouds kicks off

11:00 | 04/29/2012

Thousands of domestic and foreign tourists flocked to the opening of the Festival in the Clouds 2012 in the mountainous tourist town of Sapa on April 28.

Sapa packed with holidaymakers

18:28 | 04/28/2012

More than 5,000 local and foreign tourists took express trains to Lao Cai Railways Station on April 28 to spend the four-day holiday enjoying the cooler weather in the tourist town of Sapa.

Lyrid meteor shower can be seen on April 22

16:00 | 04/16/2012

Vietnamese who enjoy astronomic phenomena will be able to observe the Lyrid meteor shower on April 22, 2012, said the Vietnam Astronomy and Space Association.

Mường Lát — The less-visited Vietnam

14:52 | 03/30/2012

During my trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, last November I got acquainted with a group of convivial Mong boys working on a labor contract. They had come from various villages scattered in Mường Lát, a remote mountainous district of Thanh Hóa province, central Vietnam.

Mường Lát — The less-visited Vietnam

14:46 | 03/30/2012

During my trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, last November I got acquainted with a group of convivial Mong boys working on a labor contract. They had come from various villages scattered in Mường Lát, a remote mountainous district of Thanh Hóa province, central Vietnam.

Pho Cao Market in Dong Van

11:19 | 02/04/2012

Pho Cao Market is a cultural meeting place for 17 ethnic minority groups in Pho Cao village, Dong Van district, of the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang.

Beautiful clouds in Sapa

19:11 | 02/01/2012

In recent days, the mountainous district of Sapa with its mountain peaks, trees and roads shrouded in clouds has attracted many professional photographers from across the country.