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A facelift for HCM City's 130-year-old post office has stirred critics for being too garish.

Hundreds of artefacts dating back to the Tran dynasty (1226-1400) have been unearthed at Lo Giang palace in Hong Minh commune, Hung Ha district, Thai Binh province.

Vo Nguyen Giap Highway, which was opened to traffic on January 4, provides a shorter route from Hanoi centre to Noi Bai International Airport.

Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex has become the first site in Vietnam to receive UNESCO mixed natural and cultural heritage of the world recognition.

Goat-related items are being sought after in Vietnam as the Lunar Year of Goat is getting near.

Hoi An Eco-tour, a local Vietnamese fishing family-run business, has launched a new attractive tour that helps foreign visitors get better understanding of Quang Nam province’s ba trao dancing and traditional local folk songs singing.

Vietnam has come at the top of travellers’ list in 2015, the Canada’s CTV News and The Malay Mail reported on their websites on December 31.

Local people have accidentally unearthed nearly 100 age-old cannon balls recently at a site located 3km away from the world-heritage Ho Dynasty Citadel, Vinh Loc district, central Thanh Hoa province.

The Thanh Hoa provincial People’s Committee and Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, this morning announced the official logo of the 2015 National Tourism Year, to be held in the province.

Hanoi's normally bustling and noisy streets fell quiet January 1 on the first day of the four-day calendar New Year holiday.

The Vietnam Records Organisation (Vietkings) has announced the top 100 best-known hundred-year-old architectural works in Vietnam.

Streets of Hanoi and other major cities in Vietnam have been decorated with colourful lights and flowers in preparation for the calendar New Year on January 1.

Hue Relics Preservation Centre has welcomed its 30 millionth visitor during the end of the year Golden Tourism Week celebrations at the Hue Heritage Site.

The tourism sector of the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong is expecting a boost following the recent discovery of a unique volcanic cavern system.

Vietnamese and Japanese scientists have discovered a volcanic cavern system in the Central Highlands that they say is as beautiful as the Manjanggul Lava cave, a UNESCO heritage site in Jeju island, the Republic of Korea.

Street-located arrangements of flowers brightened up Da Lat city, the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, which is in the dull grey of winter, on December 23 in a festival to wrap up the National Tourism Year of Central

The northern central region will focus on developing culture-history tourism taking advantage of the rich cultural and historical heritage, it was agreed at a December 22 conference on how to implement the Master plan on the region’s tourism development

A Vietnamese farmer has grown what he hopes will be an award-winning giant chicken and has refused offers of more than VND 30 million to sell it.

A 36-metre Christmas tree has been lit up at the Thanh Le Cultural Park in the southern province of Binh Duong as part of a programme to celebrate the coming Christmas and New Year 2015.