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VietNamNet Bridge – The Ocean Dunes Golf Club (GC) in the central coastal city of Phan Thiet will host a leg of the first golf tournament series in Asia, named after the six-time major tournament winner Nick Faldo, in September this year. The inaugural Faldo Series Asia Vietnam Championship, scheduled on September 27 and 28, will provide talented young golfers aged 11 to 21 with a combination of tournament experience on the winning award course and expert advice off the course....

or Nung communities materialises. Little else disturbs the pastoral scene. After another 30km I arrive at Ngoi Tu village, the largest Dao village by Thac Ba lake. With no hotel or restaurants around, Ngoi Tu village is ideal for a homestay. , though he tells me at night time the temperature will drop. “My house and a few others in the village have been receiving travellers for 10 years now,” says Thuong. “With the help of Compagnie Bourlingue (also known as Freewheelin’...

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City-based Sai Gon-Mang Den Joint stock Co put two resorts into operation in the National Mang Den Eco-tourism Zone, in central highland Kon Tum Province's Kon Plong District, as its first step towards a series of investment projects within the zone. Provincial authorities also permitted Sai Gon-Mang Den Co to pump roughly VND110bil (US$6.8mil) into constructing 40 villas with 250 rooms reaching three-star standards on a total area of 5.6ha at the...

welcomed 2.7 million international tourists, a surge of 14.8% compared to 2006. In the first three months of this year, the city hosted 840,000 foreign visitors, up by 20% compared to the same period of last year, reaching its 28% annual target (3 million). star standard to satisfy around 7.3 million foreign visitors. According to a survey by the local Department of Tourism, the demand for luxurious hotels is rising. The room occupancy rate at 3-5 star hotels is at 80 to 90%....

With its many outdoor activities, the bamboo ecomuseum is an ideal destination for weekend visitors, especially families with small children. VietNamNet Bridge - A scientist in southern Binh Duong Province is out to prove that bamboo’s many gifts, from wood products to soil improvement, make it worth protecting and studying. Vu Thu Huong visits her ecomuseum. was part of the ‘Iron Triangle’. was known. But with the opening of the Phu An Bamboo...

The service, which runs daily between Ho Chi Minh City and Cambodia 's Siem Reap, opened on Monday. . in District 1 and arrive at the Sapaco office in Siem Reap, home to Ankor. A one-way bus fare is US$24 per passenger, including water and a cool wipe cloth. (Source: SGGP)

has several attractions, but local travel agencies dare not dream of seeing a more than 6 million visitors in 2010, added Mr. Nguyen Van My, director of Lua Viet Tourist Company. has decreased by 10 percent. The government gave the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism official permission to advertise the country’s most popular tourist attractions on CNN television last year. Three months of daily 30-second commercials in peak viewing hours cost VND4 billion (US$250,000)....