Ship for Southeast Asian Youth to dock at southern hub

The 2010 Ship for Southeast Asian Youth will dock at Saigon port in Ho Chi Minh City on December 5, bringing ashore more than 300 young delegates from ten Southeast Asian countries and ...

Hue Festival 2012 to be held in April

The Thua Thien-Hue provincial People’s Committee announced at a press briefing on June 14 that the Hue Festival 2012 will be held in April, to avoid any bad ...

Venues approved for tourism years in 2012-2017

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has approved a proposal by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to choose some provinces to host the annual national tourism promotion program from 2012 till ...

All US-bound airlines to get info for watch lists

WASHINGTON – All 197 airlines that fly to the U.S. are now collecting names, genders and birth dates of passengers so the government can check them against terror watch lists before they fly, the Obama ...

Pennekamp Park in Key Largo marks 50th anniversary

KEY LARGO, Fla. – Fifty years after it was designated the first underwater park in the U.S., John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park looks much like it did when it was founded: Tropical fish swim through ...

Online travel industry gets help in fight with MT

HELENA, Mont. – Two Montana business groups are joining the online travel companies in an ongoing dispute with the state over hotel bed taxes now that the Department of Revenue is rewriting its rules ...

Colo. lawsuit filed over TSA airport screening

DENVER – A Colorado attorney has asked a federal judge to order the Transportation Security Administration to abandon its airport screening procedures for United States ...