(Cinet)- Provincial People’s Committee held a meeting on making a plan for holding the 2008 Ha Long Carnaval Festival Week. As planned, the 2008 Ha Long Carnaval Festival Week will last from 26th April to 1st May 2008 with a topic “Ha Long – towards the world natural wonder”.
Later this month Hanoi will unveil a large clock which counts down the 1,000 days until the capital’s 1,000th anniversary in 2010.
The Thanh Pagoda in the northern city of Lang Son was officially given a place in the Vietnam Guinness Records yesterday as “the pagoda with most monolithic bronze statues in Vietnam”.
The late Polish architect Kazimierz Kwiatkowski was honored in central Viet Nam's Hoi An for his contribution to the UNESCO-listed ancient town during a ceremony to unveil his stone bas-relief.