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Five more luxury hotels operational in Hanoi for Tourism Year

Hanoi plans to put into operation five more luxury hotels, offering an additional 2,000 rooms during 2010, the National Tourism Year. They include four five-star hotels, namely Hanoi Plaza , with 600 rooms, the PetroVietnam hotel complex with 350 rooms, Keang Nam Vina complex with 500 rooms and Crowne Plaza Hanoi, 393 rooms. [...]

Foreign capitals to celebrate Hanoi’s anniversary

Up to 22 capital and cities around the world and foreign embassies in Vietnam have registered to take part in activities marking Hanoi’s 1,000th anniversary that will be held later this year. According to the National Steering Committee for the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi, the city of [...]

National relics to be digitized

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is choosing outstanding relics and antiques to digitize, including the Dong Son bronze drums, ancient statues, Co Loa ancient citadel and Chua Thay pagoda. Visitors touch the heads of stone-made turtoises at Hanoi’s Temple of Literature. The ministry will use three dimension (3D) technologies and many [...]

Artist depicts love of music

HCM CITY — Music is the theme of an exhibition surrealist painter Nguyen Dinh Dang is holding at the Fazioli Piano Showroom&Art Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. Opus 7 has 21 oil on canvas works by Dang, who is a physicist by training. Clair de Lune and Allego con fuoco reveal the artist’s love for music by composers [...]

Artist depicts love of music

HCM CITY — Music is the theme of an exhibition surrealist painter Nguyen Dinh Dang is holding at the Fazioli Piano Showroom&Art Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. Opus 7 has 21 oil on canvas works by Dang, who is a physicist by training. Clair de Lune and Allego con fuoco reveal the artist’s love [...]

Music market flooded with new projects

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese singers are become active professionally, clearly evident from their annual schedule for the early days of 2010. Many singers have also chosen 2010 to launch big projects. Singer Quang Dung. Perhaps the economic recovery has persuaded singers to conduct their major projects in 2010 to stir up the frozen music market. One [...]

LIFESTYLE IN BRIEF 28/3

Int’l fireworks contest 2010 opens in Da Nang The 2010 international fireworks contest called “the Legendary Han River” kicked off on the bank of the Han River in Da Nang City on March 27. At the opening ceremony, the three teams from Portugal, Japan and Vietnam put on a 20-minute show each. The Portuguese team began the [...]

Japan’s ANA flies to HCM City daily

VietNamNet Bridge – All Nippon Airways (ANA) has started its daily service between Tokyo and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam as the Japanese carrier on Sunday increased the number of flights to seven per week from five. While much of the world has been dealing with hard economic times, the growth of the Vietnamese economy [...]

Fireworks display wows audiences in Da Nang

With a romantic performance, France took home the first prize of the International Firework Contest 2010 held in Da Nang City, followed by the USA in second and a tie for third with Portugal, Japan and Vietnam. The French team ecstatic in victory In the evening on March 28, dozens of thousands of local people and tourists [...]

Tourists flock to Da Nang for fireworks

Most hotels in central Da Nang City are fully booked for the Da Nang International Fireworks Competition 2010 to be held on March 27-28, according to the Da Nang Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The competition, with the participation of five teams from Vietnam , the US , Japan , France and [...]