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Quảng Bình Province is not building a suspension cable to Sơn Đoòng Cave, the world’s largest cave located in the Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park.

A Botanical-Animal Museum has opened at the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens (Saigon Zoo) in HCM City.

Hundreds of farmers in HCM City's District 12 are busy at their flower farms preparing for the lunar new year.

The Quang Binh People’s Committee has approved bumping up the sales of tours to Son Doong cave in 2017, one of the world’s largest caves, from 500 top 800 due to increased demand.

The Kho Mu practice many rituals and ceremonies each year: worship of the hamlet’s genie and ancestors and festivals to welcome new crops and the Rice Mother.

HCM City’s first permanent flower trading centre will open at the Binh Dien wholesale market in District 8 this year, according to the municipal People’s Committee.

A make-shift market along Highway 4D, from O Quy Ho Mountain Pass to Mong Sen Bridge, can be seen bustling with activities in Sapa, Lao Cai Province.

The Hue Relics Preservation Centre will implement nine preservation and restoration projects at the Hue Relic System in 2017.

An American-Vietnamese collector, Trần Thắng, has donated to the Hoàng Sa (Paracel) Island District the Pattie De La Conchinchine, an 1827 map printed in the six-volume World Atlas (Atlas universel) by Belgium cartographer Phillippe Vandermaelen (1795-1869).

The Temple of Literature in Hanoi has recently looked brighter with new white walls, which was done in an attempt to clean and preserve the centuries-old relic.

More than 100 volunteers, including students, representatives from businesses, NGOs, and government agencies, and in particular US Ambassador to Vietnam H.E. Ted Osius, took part in the second clean-up of Ha Long Bay on January 10.

Hanoi's Old Quarter management board has just opened Dong Lac Communal House to tourists after restoration.

Hanoi’s streets are becoming increasingly colourful as traders start transporting and displaying peach flower trees for sale in the run-up to the lunar new year.

The ‘Two Countries – Four Destination’ tour, connecting Ha Long and Mong Cai in Vietnam with Dongxing and Guilin in China, was launched at a ceremony held in Quang Ninh province on January 5.

Can Tho city has approved a project to preserve and develop the Cai Rang floating market with the aim of making it a favourite destination for international and domestic tourists.

The US magazine Forbes has listed northern Vietnam as the cheapest place to visit in 2017

The Asia institute of City Management, which had commissioned a yearlong study on Danang, announced that the budding coastal city is the most liveable place in Vietnam.

Nearly 87,000 international holiday-makers visited tourist sites in the central province of Thua Thien–Hue in 2016 or nearly 10% year-on-year through Chan May port by cruise ships.

The Thang Long–Hanoi Heritage Conservation Centre has just organised a symposium to announce a preliminary report on excavation results at the Kinh Thien Palace site in Thang Long Royal Citadel.