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A branch of the State Bank of Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City, built some 85 years ago, will be recognised as a national relic.

The Asia’s largest cruise ship Ovation of the Seas with 4,300 passengers on board docked at Phu My Port in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province on June 14.

Hoang Su Phi's terraced rice fields in Ha Giang are regarded as the most beautiful in the area thanks to the special terrain and fertile soil.

Cuc Phuong, Nam Cat Tien and U Minh are the ideal eco-tourist destinations for families or groups of young people on the weekends.

The central province of Quang Binh is offering a discount of 30% on fares for local cave tourism services, according to the Phong Nha – Ke Bang Tourism Centre.

As the lotus flower season arrives, many young women in Hanoi are flocking to capture the best moments with the blossoms in lotus ponds near West Lake.

Wax figures of King Bao Dai and Queen Nam Phuong, the last royal family of Vietnam, will go on display on September 19 at the Summer Palace Museum where they lived from 1949-1955 in the resort city of Da Lat.

Thousands of visitors rushed to attend a festival for monkeys held on an island off Nha Trang City in the central province of Khanh Hoa.

One of the greatest Wonders of the Buddhist World, the four-ton Jade Buddha for Universal Peace, is now on display through June 19 at the Nam Hai Pagoda in the central city of Danang.

Knowledge about space science will be disseminated widely to the public in Vietnam, particularly younger generations, with a VND44.2 billion (roughly US$2 million) National Space Museum to be put into operation in December 2017.

Huế authorities have added six more villages to the list of recognised traditional crafts in an attempt to preserve and develop these crafts.

More than 20km of caves in the central province of Quang Binh have been discovered by explorers from the British Cave Research Association (BCRA).

If a city’s fortunes can be judged by the number of cranes dotting its landscape, Ho Chi Minh City has high hopes.

Visitors to Ho Chi Minh City have long complained of the difficulty in finding free Wi-Fi hotspots, a situation the Municipal People’s Committee plans to rectify in the very near future.

The southern city of City has recently been selected to be part of the ‘100 Resilient Cities’ programme (100RC), pioneered by the US-based Rockefeller Foundation.

A pair of Tu Linh (Four Sacred Animals) jars by artisan Pham Anh Dao from the Bat Trang pottery village have been auctioned off at a price of 275,000 USD.

In addition to Son Doong Cave tour, domestic and foreign adventurers will have more chance to discover stalactites and stalagmites at Hang Va and Nuoc Nut caves through a new route launched by Oxalis Adventure Tour Operator, said the

A 150 metre-high pagoda tower which is expected to be one of the world's tallest of its kind, will be built at the Nui Coc Lake tourism site in Thai Nguyen Province according to the investor.

CNN site give hints about ten street dishes that every visitor should not miss when they come to Vietnam, including bun cha, nem cuon, ca phe trung, banh mi, bot chien, pho and xoi.