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Russia to open flights to Cam Ranh for the first time
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On November 12, Interfax-Ural News extracted an announcement of Chelyabinsk Airport that this winter there will be flights from the Russian province of Chelyabinsk to Cam Ranh City in Vietnam and Sharjah City in the UAE for the first time.
The action aims to encourage Russian tourists to visit the central coastal city of Vietnam.
In addition, the announcement noted that this winter the airport would increase flights to popular destinations. Specifically, flights to Hurghada (Egypt) will be raised to 20 and to Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt) will be increased to 10.
In this winter schedule, the airport will resume flights to Bangkok, Phuket (Thailand), Dubai (UAE) and Goa (India)./.
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Nov
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“Mother and Sea” took place in the French city of Orsay
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The fifth annual show of Vietnam’s traditional music and martial arts entitled on November 11th.
Held by the Vietnamese – Orsay Traditional Cultural and Music Association (OCTAVE), the event attracted hundreds of overseas Vietnamese and French participants.
Participants enjoyed performances of traditional musical instruments, such as 16-chord zither, monochord, two-stringed fiddle and bamboo flute, as well as martial arts involving swords, sticks, clubs and knives.
An exhibition featuring Vietnam and its people was also held.
Established in 2007, OCTAVE offers Vietnamese language, music and cooking classes to foreigners to fund scholarships for poor students at Loc Ninh secondary school and Quang Binh university in the central region./.
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Nov
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Traditional wooden architecture was discussed in Vietnam and Japan
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Vietnamese and Japanese experts gathered for a workshop in the central city of Hue on November 12 to discuss traditional wooden architecture in the preservation of architectural relics in the former imperial city of Hue.
The workshop, the first of its kind, was jointly organised by the Hue Monuments Conservation Centre (HMCC), the UNESCO World Heritage Institute at Japan’s Waseda University and the Japan Architects’ Association.
Participants said that traditional wooden architecture plays an important role in the Hue monument architectural system. They stressed that the thorough understanding of materials, manipulating methods, structures and factors that affect wooden architectural works is an important foundation for the conservation and restoration of relics.
Researchers discussed the traditional wooden architectures of Vietnam and Japan and their similarities.
The two sides shared experiences and proposed measures to conserve wooden architectural works, as the Hue relics are badly affected by global climate change.
Waseda University is coordinating with HMCC a study of the restoration of the war-torn Can Chanh Palace , which was the second largest - after Thai Hoa Palace - in the Imperial Palace.
The project is estimated to cost 10 million USD. Funded by official development assistance (ODA), construction is expected to be completed in five years./.
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Nov
14
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Vietnam leads Asian hotel growth list
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Vietnam takes the lead in the growth of the Asian hotel sector with a forecast annual rate of 15 per cent for the 2012-16 period, according to the World Travel Market's Global Trend Report 2012 in association with Euromonitor International.
Vietnam was followed by the Republic of Korea, India, Uzbekistan, Malaysia, China and the Philippines, the report said.
The hotel sector of Asia was expected to record strong growth with a compound annual rate of 7 percent thanks to increases in international and domestic visitors.
Notably, Asia had high potential for luxury entrants, according to the report, which points out that Tonino Lamborghini planned to open 40 additional five-star hotels in Asia, with the first nine opening in China.
The report also said that up-market car brands may successfully make inroads into the hotel sector, such as Porsche, Ferrari, Maserati, Bentley and Jaguar, together with several fashion brands.
According to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism's statistics, there were more than 5.3 million international visitors to Vietnam in the first 10 months of this year, an increase of 11.2 percent over the same period last year.
As of September 2011, there were 12,500 hotels of all kinds with about 250,000 rooms, 53 of which were of five-star standard, 127 four-star and 271 three-star./.
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