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Mekong Delta to Become a Friendly Destination Mekong Delta to Become a Friendly Destination
“Mekong Delta can be seen as one of the most attractive tourist destinations in Asia with beautiful natural landscapes, but it may soon lose this advantage due to rapid infrastructure development. And it take years to reinstate those precious values,” said Prof. Ernst Sagemueller, general director of the Europe-Indochina Institute for Tourism, at a recent conference entitled “Potential and Development Opportunity in Mekong Delta” in the city of Can Tho.

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A breath of fresh air (11/08/08)
Making the most of the Mekong Delta (03/03/08)
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Cultural Insights

Buffalo bonesBuffalo bones
In parts of Ha Tay and Ha Nam provinces it is said people have been making combs from buffalo horns for centuries. Judging by their two main maxims, traditionally buffalo-horn craftsmen were pretty unforthcoming to outsiders who were curious about the craft.

Singing amid the sea (03/10/07)
Buffalo Fights: Symbolic of Bravery and Fun for Everyone (19/09/07)
Quan Thanh Temple (04/09/07)
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Travel News
Two more five-star hotels in central Hanoi
 
16 November 2007


Hanoi authorities have agreed in principle to a project to build two complexes of five-star hotels, office buildings for lease and luxurious apartments at 10 Tran Vu street and 281 Doi Can street, Hanoi.

his is a project of the Company for Tourism and Investment Promotion. The hotel located on Doi Can street is licenced to have 27 storeys and at least three basements.

The one at 10 Tran Vu Street that is in front of Truc Bach Lake is permitted to have up to nine storeys with at least two basements.

The construction of the two hotels is scheduled to be completed in 2010 to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

This is good news for the capital’s tourism sector as the city is in serious shortage of hotels now.

Source: VietNamNet Bridge
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