Seasonal specials rabbit dishes July at Gia Dining Room

Gia Dining Room has a range of promotions on offer during July, including a seasonal special on rabbit that features stewed rabbit leg with red wine, ham and vegetables and grilled rabbit leg served in Dijon mustard sauce and roasted potato. Gia Dining Room has a range of promotions on offer during July, including a seasonal special on rabbit that features stewed rabbit leg with red wine, ham and vegetables and grilled rabbit leg served in Dijon...

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Vietnam's students join exchange programme in Japan

A group of 16 Vietnamese high school students have taken part in a series of activities within the Vietnam-Japan goodwill exchange programme in Japan. This was the second Vietnamese student group to visit Japan under the programme held by the association of international human resource development of small and medium-sized enterprises (IMM Japan), said Takashi Kazama, Head of the IMM Japan’s Overseas Management Division.The programme aims to enhance mutual understanding among high school...

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More foreign countries register to attend Hue Festival

As many as 21 countries have registered to take part in Hue Festival 2008, an increase of 10 countries compared to the festival two years ago, according to the event organisers. Besides France, China, Russia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Australia, Thailand, Cambodia and Germany, this year’s festival will see the first-ever participation of the United States, Spain, Belgium, Israel, the Czech Republic, Turkey and Romania.The festival has received much financial support from domestic...

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HCMC doubles promotion fund for tourism

HCMC this year will spend around VND9 billion, or US$600,000, on tourism promotion activities, twice compared to the last year’s budget, an official said. La Quoc Khanh, deputy director of the city’s Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism, said that the city’s tourism needed a bigger budget on activities to help the sector overcome a decline in international tourist arrivals. He said much of the fund would be spent on developing more products.“However, most of the budget will be used...

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Da Lat Flower Festival to be held in 2010

The Lam Dong provincial People’s Committee has decided to reschedule the Da Lat Flower Festival from 2009 to 2010 to coordinate with the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long - Hanoi. The event, previously scheduled for December 19-23, 2009, will be held from January 1-4, 2010. It will be the country’s first major event of 2010, kicking off a lineup of cultural activities to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.Preparations for the event have been virtually completed, with a general programme,...

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Vietnam’s ‘dragon fruit’ now ‘flying’ to the US

Over 10 consignments of red-skinned, white-fleshed ‘dragon fruit’ have been shipped by air to the US since Vietnam resumed efforts to develop an export market for them a month ago. Nguyen Huu Dat, Director of the Post-import Vegetable Product Quarantine Centre (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development - MARD), who has just returned from a working trip to the US, talked to Tuoi Tre newspaper about the potential for dragon fruit exports to the American market. (Known in Vietnamese...

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