Vietexplorer2024

The Vietnam-Korea Tourism Promotion Festival, with over 40 booths showcasing Vietnamese and Korean businesses, offered a plethora of engaging activities for attendees. These included traditional Korean Hanbok dress-up, the Tuho game, and picture coloring. Significant discounts on Korean tours, encompassing K-drama, cycling, cruise, and Carnival experiences, further enhanced the event’s appeal. The multi-media booth, a festival highlight, immersed visitors in a vibrant Korean atmosphere through modern presentation technologies. The K-drama booth transported attendees to iconic Korean film locations, while the K-pop booth pulsated with the energy of K-pop music and dance. The festival’s vibrancy escalated with captivating performances by renowned V-pop and K-pop artists. As a notable event within the festival, Korea Tourism Night 2024 focused on showcasing Korean tourism attractions and fostering connections between Vietnamese and Korean travel companies to facilitate the developmen...

Nature-based tourism is taking off in Cam Lam District, with resorts along Bai Dai Beach embracing eco-friendly practices and offering unique experiences. By creating farms and gardens, these resorts are providing an immersive experience for tourists, allowing them to connect with nature and local life. One notable example is the Alma Resort near Bai Dai Beach, which has dedicated a portion of its land to farming. This farm boasts a vibrant array of vegetables, fruits, herbs, and even chickens, offering a glimpse into sustainable agricultural practices. The resort representative shared that tourists, especially families with children, are drawn to this farm experience. They get to live like farmers for a day, engaging in activities such as sowing seeds, watering vegetables, and collecting fresh eggs. It’s a fun and educational way to spend time as a family. Le Thi Thuy, a tourist from Ho Chi Minh City, shared her appreciation for the green space: “I love the garden at the resort. Be...

According to Visa’s Consumer Payment Attitudes Study 2022, over 70% of Vietnamese consumers are generally receptive to open banking, especially fintech and non-bank service providers that can open an account for them using their existing data with banks. Illustrative image Vietnamese banks are among the earliest in the world to make the digital transformation, VNA citied experts. Speaking at the Financial Services – Retail Banking Forum in Ho Chi Minh City last week, Vu Viet Ngoan, former chairman of the National Financial Supervisory Commission, said the habit of using digital products had become more prevalent than ever in Vietnam. More than 30% of the population uses banking apps, second globally only after China (41%), according to Ngoan. Vietnam’s banking and financial sectors would continue to play a key role in establishing a “fully digitized, human-centered system”. He also pointed out that the digital transformation in the country would be an important process...

Mai Chau Culture Resort, Grand Tourane Nha Trang Hotel, and Ambassador Cruise Restaurants are several brands among the finalists of the Asia Architecture Design Awards 2023 (AADA). AADA categories include Best Resort Architecture Design, Best Hotel Architecture Design, Best Resort Interior Design, Best Lighting Design, and Best Furniture Accessories, among others.  Tre Dining in HCM City is listed as one of the Best F&B Architecture designs. Photo: Tre Dining Those from Vietnam made an impressive display on the shortlist, demonstrating their architectural prowess. From May 30 to June 25, the jury will begin their work with 20 influential experts from various fields, including architecture, design, and real estate from Singapore, Thailand, Italy, and the UAE.  The Ngõ Alley House is listed in the categroy: Best Residential Architecture Design. Photo: Alley House The Asia Architecture Awards 2023 winners will be officially announced on the of...

Commencing in July 2020, the project was aimed at conserving 500 deteriorated woodblock plates at the National Archives Center IV.  The initiative, which received more than US$88,000 in funding from the United States Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP), has now been completed. Following the approval of the AFCP grant in July 2020, a technical team conducted a thorough study and assessment of the level of damage sustained by the degraded woodblocks.  Newly-treated Nguyen Dynasty woodblock plates are conserved at the National Archives Center IV in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam, May 25, 2023. Photo: M.V. / Tuoi Tre The evaluation showed that approximately 5,000 woodblock plates had suffered damage as a result of historical factors, the natural aging process, the tropical climate, wars, floods, as well as fungal and insect activities over the centuries. From January to the end of August 2021, the team implemented conservation treatment on the decaying w...

‘Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell,’ which vies for the Camera d’Or Award against 17 other competitors in the Directors’ Fortnight section, was premiered at 4:45 pm in France. Directed by Pham Thien An, the movie tells the story of a journey taken by a young man named Thien, who is tasked with delivering his sister-in-law’s body to their countryside hometown following a tragic motorcycle accident. Amid the mystical landscapes of rural Vietnam, Thien begins a search for his older brother, who vanished years ago.  As the debut screening of the movie ended after three hours on Wednesday, audiences rose and stood applauding for five minutes. According to AP News , a five-minute standing ovation would count as a dream response in most places in the world although it is supposedly tepid in Cannes. For An Nguyen, a Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reader, who experienced such standing ovation first-hand, the responses were deeply emotional.  “This can be considered as [Vietnam’s] shini...