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Many low-cost retail petrol stands have recently been popping up on the streets of Nha Trang. These “businesses” sell their products at VND20,000 (USD0.95) per litre. Their competition are local petrol stations, who sell Ron 92 petrol at VND21,210 and Ron 95 at VND21,720 per litre. Petrol retail stand on Le Hong Phong Street Le [...]
Visitors to the resort town of Nha Trang in January for the Lunar New Year Festival ( Tet ) will have the opportunity to enjoy a view of the bay from a balloon floating 150 meters high. The balloon, 22 meters in diameter, will be held by cable wire in an area of 3,000 square [...]
A Liberian ship, the Main Trader, rescued all 15 fishermen aboard a Vietnamese sunken vessel on January 8. An unidentified ship collided with the Vietnamese vessel on January 2 while it was fishing at sea, according to Nguyen Van Hieu, captain of the unlucky ship who survived the incident. Hieu said he was rescued and [...]
The Pasteur Institute in Nha Trang in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa was directed Tuesday to assess a new treatment methodology to treat the hand-foot-mouth disease by the Ministry of Health. Dr. Khai (standing, in white shirt) and Vo Dai, deputy chairman of Ninh Thuan People’s Committee examine a child recovering from HFMD [...]
Yvette Irvine heard about Vietnamese hand-embroidery before coming to this land, but like the rest of her party she only knew embroidering with a machine. She couldn’t imagine how Vietnamese women manually created those exquisite silk pictures that had gained an international reputation. The 45-year-old Yvette got an inkling of how it was done when [...]
Vinpearl Resort Nha Trang recently was voted the Vietnam’s Leading Resort by the World Travel Awards (WTA,) the comprehensive voter-determined awards in the global travel and tourism industry. This is the fourth time Vinpearl has received the international program’s accolade. Previously, the WTA listed Vinpearl as Vietnam’s Leading Spa Resort – in 2004 and 2008. [...]
Authorities in the central province of Khanh Hoa on Tuesday released 89 wild animals that have illegally been caged in a local farmhouse. The animals were released into the riverhead forest Ea-Krongru that is 70 kilometers from downtown Nha Trang city of Khanh Hoa and 600m higher than sea level. Earlier on September 19, local [...]
The world’s largest solar-powered boat docked in Nha Trang on Vietnam’s central coast on Monday on the latest leg of her epic round the world voyage. PlanetSolar, a 31 by 15 meter white catamaran, is equipped with more than 500 square meters of solar paneling and can reach a top speed of around 15 knots, [...]
Located around 10 kilometers from Nha Trang City, Dien Khanh Township, known as Thanh to locals, welcomes visitors with its spacious streets, green rice fields, fragrant star apple and jackfruit orchards. On a July morning, I borrowed a friend’s motorbike to leisurely ride to Thanh from Nha Trang, the spacious road was a delightful experience [...]
Tens of thousands of Russian tourists will arrive in Cam Ranh International Airport in Khanh Hoa Province via chartered flights to visit Nha Trang and Phan Thiet from late October to early May next year. Hoang Thi Phong Thu, chairwoman of Anh Duong Co., said her company just signed a business cooperation contract with Moscow-based [...]