Vietnam Travel News

Tokyo, Nov 24, 2009 - - JCB International Co., Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB, the only international payment brand from Japan, announced that Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade , one of the largest credit card acquiring banks in Vietnam, today started to facilitate JCB credit card acceptance in Vietnam ...

In the first in a weekly series we ask expats to describe their Vietnam. This week Blue Dragon Children's foundation Michael Brosowski tells of a "complex country where hope and sorrow can co-exist". Every expatriate living in Vietnam, and every tourist passing through, wants to mould Vietnam in their own image - " ever so slightly, of course.

For the past quarter century, Carter and his wife Rosalynn have devoted a week a year to programmes run by Habitat for Humanity, an Atlanta-based Christian organisation which helps provide homes for the poor in the US and elsewhere.

If you're someone who craves peace andA quiet, don't book a trip to Hanoi or Saigon, rather Ho Chi Minh City .

The local advertising industry appears to have bucked the downturn as producers are increasing ad spending, especially on consumer products, insiders say.

Don't get conned by escalating train fares. Here's our smart guide to getting around affordably by train Now arriving on platform 13: the four-figure train ticket.

Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Ho Chi Minh city travel at www.hochiminhcitytravel.net Ho Chi Minh overview Ho Chi Minh City formerly known as Saigon, locates at the heart of the southern part of Viet Nam, between the northern edge of the Mekong Delta and the South Eastern region of volcanic red soil.

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In Pho From Home we seek out the variety of pho--authentic, Texified, good and bad--available in restaurants, starting in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City and winding all the way around the Dallas area.

Cambodia's exports to Vietnam in the first nine months were less than for the first seven months of last year: 2009 Up to end Sept - $130m Up to end Aug - $123m Up to end July - $110m 2008 Up to end July - $141m C AMBODIA'S bilateral trade with neighbouring Vietnam recovered slightly in September, official figures from the Vietnamese embassy showed ...

A neighbor to the countries that hug the Mekong River in Indochina, China has long had an interest in the region, but the United States has recently developed a growing interest in the nations as well.

Vietnam and Denmark on November 2 signed a memorandum of understanding on cultural cooperation during the 2009-2014 period as part of activities within the official visit to Vietnam by Danish Queen Margrethe II.

Two more people have died of swine flu in Vietnam, taking the death toll so far to 39.

" Queen Margrethe II and Prince Consort Henrik of Denmark left Hanoi on November 4 to continue their trip to other cities and provinces in the central and southern regions.

Vietnam's President Nguyen Minh Triet , his wife Tran Thi Kim Chi pose for a photo with visiting Denmark's Queen Margrethe and her husband Prince Consort Henrik , Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary during a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi November 2, 2009.

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The countryside around Da Lat, where you can hike or make fascinating visits to the villages of the area's minority peoples Don't mention the war.

You know how a country views a war by its iconography. Among the visual icons of World War II - the unspotted "good war" - are, says historian Richard Botkin, the scorched Chinese orphan wailing in a Japanese-bombed rail yard; the USS Arizona ablaze at Pearl Harbor, and Joe Rosenthal's Marine/Corpsman flag-raising on Mount Suribachi - images that ...

Vietnam, a country of humid tropical heat and monsoons, has a culinary culture that combines countless ingredients and spices to satisfy the tendency of Vietnamese people to eat many vegetables and soups and pork, beef, chicken and fish.

Export-Import Bank of Korea President Kim Dong-soo, left, meets Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, right, in Hanoi.