The sights and flavors of old Hanoi will hit Ho Chi Minh City next week at Hanoi Market Days, a three-day festival of food and tradition celebrating the capital’s rich cultural history. Opening December 11 in the lead up to Hanoi’s 1,000th anniversary celebration next year, Hanoi Market Days at Van Thanh Tourist Park in Binh Thanh District will offer southerners and foreigners a chance to learn about the cultural heritage and culinary features... 

A group of my Vietnamese friends from the US headed by Duong Quang Chan, a businessman, arrived in Ha Noi this week to start a New Year trans-Viet Nam tour and to seek out a suitable place to open a restaurant in the country. “My friends and I are excited to be back in our homeland which we left almost 30 years ago,” he said. Waterfall: A corner of Ban Gioc Waterfall, in the northern province of Cao Bang’s Trung Khanh District,...