Monastery hosts festival
The annual Tay Thien Festival opened on March 30, the 15th day of the 2nd lunar month, at the Truc Lam (Bamboo Forest) Tay Thien Zen Monastery in the northern province of Vinh Phuc.

Ha Long festival to take Hanoi theme
VietNamNet Bridge - This year’s Ha Long Tourism Festival at the World Heritage site of Ha Long Bay will take Hanoi as its theme to celebrate the 1, 000 birthday of the capital city.

Wuthering heights
Thanh Thu joins the pilgrims heading for Hanoi’s Chuong My District to visit one of the country’s oldest and most famous pagodas, Chua Tram Gian

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.

Ca Tru school makes debut  
A school of Ca Tru (ceremonial singing) made its debut in Hanoi on March 18, helping preserve humanity’s intangible cultural heritage.

Hue owns biggest plain rice cake in Vietnam 
Thua Thien-Hue’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism on March 20 organised a ceremony to announce the city’s Tourism Year 2010 and presented to the public the country’s biggest plain rice cake.

Thang Long Royal Citadel to open for visitors
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung has approved the opening of the Thang Long Royal Citadel Relic Site for visitors on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

Stimulus plan proposed to boost tourism 
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has proposed offering visas-on-arrival as a measure to lure more than 4 million foreign visitors to Vietnam this year. The VNAT has suggested the new service be offered firstly at the Tan Son Nhat and Noi Bai international airports where a large number of foreign visitors enter to begin their trips in Vietnam.

Various events to commemorate the Hung Kings’ death
A wide range of cultural and sport activities will be held in the northern province of Phu Tho to mark the Hung Kings’ death anniversary and the Hung Temple Festival in 2010.

Tours offered for Danang International Firework Festival 
On March 27-28, four firework groups from the USA, Japan, France and Portugal will perform firework shows in the central city of Danang. The organizers hope to welcome 100, 000 visitors with ocal travel firms having designed tours to the city.