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A report by the U.K.-based search engine for flights, hotels and car rentals, said Vietnam’s Da Nang and Thailand’s Bangkok are the most favored Southeast Asian cities among South Koreans looking to travel abroad for the upcoming holiday.  Its conclusion is based on search frequencies for travel in September 12-15. Jeju Island, the largest island in South Korea and the country’s favorite domestic holiday destination, was also the most searched by the nation’s citizens for the holiday. The Mid-Autumn Festival, called Chuseok in South Korea, is one of the country's biggest holidays and is celebrated according to the lunar calendar. It is the South Korean equivalent to what Americans know as Thanksgiving. The celebration is typically spread across three days. South Koreans celebrate the holiday from the 14th to the 16th of the eighth lunar month, which falls September 12-14 this year. Normally, they travel back to their hometowns to spend time with their … [Read more...] about Da Nang a big draw for South Koreans celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival

In Da Nang city (Photo: VNA)   Da Nang (VNA) – Building on the achievements of “The Year of Promoting Investment Attraction 2019”, the central city of Da Nang is taking key measures to draw more investment this year. Accordingly, Da Nang will effectively realise its master plan till 2030 with a vision to 2045, complete procedures to hold land auctions for projects in the fields of health care, education, trade and services during the first quarter of next year. The city will also call for domestic and foreign investment to high-tech, industrial and smart urban areas. Chief of the Office of the municipal Department of Planning and Investment Tran Van Hoang said as of the late November, the department had consulted with the municipal People’s Committee about the licensing of nine projects worth over 8.8 trillion VND (382.6 million USD). Da Nang has so far lured additional 689.3 million USD in foreign direct investment (FDI). As of November 31, the … [Read more...] about Da Nang continues drawing more investment

MUSIC & PERFORMANCES HCMC – Dance Theater: “Method” Dec 20 and 21, 8 – 10 pm HCMC- Vietnamese play to be restaged as Broadway-style musical Dec 22, 8pm The Gioi Tre Stage, 125 Cong Quynh Street in District 1. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ EXHIBITION Hanoi-Exhibition “Geometric Origami” Opening: Dec 16, 4 pm Hanoi-Exhibition “Heebie Jeebies” Dec 12 – 29, 9 am – 12 pm and 1.30 – 5 pm VICAS Art Studio, 32 Hao Nam Street, Dong Da District From the organizer: A unique voice to Vietnamese contemporary fine arts, bringing about a complex visual impression, which is the harmony between the visible and the invisible, between the positive and negative energies, between rationality and intuition and between excitement and panic… Danang City-Art exhibition honours local artists  Dec 7, … [Read more...] about What’s on December 16-22 (Daily updated)

Construction of the La Son-Tuy Loan expressway started three years ago and hundreds of workers are racing against time to speed up the project scheduled for completion by the end of this year. The 47-mile-long expressway, costing around VND11.5 trillion ($496 million), will run from La Son Town in Thua Thien-Hue Province to Tuy Loan Village in Da Nang, crossing through the Bach Ma National Park, a top trekking destination. Workers are toiling day and night at the construction site. Workers asphalt a section of the road running through the national park. Upon completion, the expressway will connect with the Da Nang-Quang Ngai highway, forming a continuous network of expressways in central Vietnam. The Bach Ma National Park, covering more than 37,000 hectares, was established in 1991. Rich in biodiversity, the park attracts many brave and adventurous trekkers, who walk miles through the forests, past waterfalls and lakes before it reaches it peak 1,450 meters above sea … [Read more...] about Work speeds up on expressway through Vietnamese national park

Tetra Pak, in collaboration with its partners, kicks off School Recycling program to involve 800 primary schools and kindergartens in 16 districts of Hanoi The Company also aims to expand this initiative to Da Nang and Binh Duong in 2020. School Recycling is the first-ever, large-scale program to segregate, collect and recycle used cartons in Hanoi under partnership with Hanoi’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment and Hanoi’s Department of Education and Training as well as Tetra Pak’s partners including Dong Tien Paper Factory, Lagom, NHC and Vinamilk. Participating the program, schoolchildren are instructed the simple steps of unfolding four corners of used cartons, flattening and placing them into dustbins for collection. The used carton packages are then collected periodically every two weeks by Lagom and transported to Dong Tien Paper factory to be materials for the production of such useful products as notebooks, bio-roof panels, etc. … [Read more...] about Tetra Pak initiates School Recycling to 800 primary schools and kindergartens in Hanoi