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Vietnam looks to one million Japanese tourists in 2015
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With tourism promotion activities being conducted in Japan until next Tuesday, Vietnam has officially kicked off the campaign of attracting one million tourists arrivals from Japan in 2015, doubling that of last year.
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) and travel firms are organizing a number of tourism promotion programs and road shows in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto. Besides, they will attend JATA Tourism Forum & Travel Showcase 2012 and work with the Vietnam-Japan Tourism Cooperation Committee on specific promotion activities.
Previously, the Vietnam Festival 2012 in Japan was held late last week in Tokyo by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan and relevant agencies of the two countries.
“We are performing several activities in Japan and have officially kicked off the campaign of attracting one million Japanese tourist arrivals to Vietnam in 2015,” Mr. Nguyen Van Tuan, head of VNAT, told the Daily on Wednesday.
Japan is currently the third largest market of Vietnam’s tourism after China and South Korea, and Vietnam is offering visa-free entry for Japanese passport holders for stays of no more than 15 days.
There were nearly 482,000 Japan tourist arrivals in Vietnam last year, up 8.9% from the previous year. Meanwhile, the number in the year’s first eight months was over 376,000 arrivals, or a rise of 18.9% from the same period last year.
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Sep
24
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Luu Huynh’s much-hyped lay chong nguoi ta has arrived
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Despite losing out on an international film prize at Toronto International Film Festival, Saigon film fans are in for an award-winning weekend at the movies with Lay chong nguoi ta (In the name of love) by overseas Vietnamese director Luu Huynh.
The controversial movie premiered at the festival with the return of Huynh after he captured the headlines for Ao lua Ha Dong (The White Silk Dress) and Huyen thoai bat tu (The legend is alive).
Huynh focuses on the dark and harrowing tale of Lua (Dinh Y Nhung), a poor girl from a small fishing village. Lua and her husband Khanh (Huy Khanh) are very much in love and live a simple life. The day their first child is born is the happiest in their lives. That happiness doesn’t last as one night a stranger (Thai Hoa) steals the newly-born and claims it as his own in the village as he tries to ruin their lives to make up for his own despair.
The story promises to be a real tearjerker as it features a dark side of poor people living near the water. When the teaser from the movie, which is inspired by the traditional Greek tragedy, was unveiled to the public in May, it caused a huge controversy due to a highly-charged sex scene involving Nhung and Khanh. Definitely one to watch folks, so remember to order your tickets online at Megastar and Galaxy cinemas near you.
On a lighter note, The Watch also comes to town this weekend reuniting Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn who were such a huge hit in Dodgeball as the leaders of a neighborhood watch team in suburban America. Well, they are more like middle-aged men who fancy doing something a bit more exciting to get away from their dead-end jobs and lives.
Directed by Akvia Schaffer and written by Jared Stern, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, we follow Evan (Stiller) a Cosco manager who forms the watch after his friend is murdered and also because he has no friends. Bob (Vaughn) uses his role in the team to spy on his teenage daughter. Also in the team is Jonah Hill as Franklin a resident with emotional problems who joins the watch after being rejected by the local police and Richard Ayoade as Jamarcus who is just recently divorced.
When they uncover an alien plot that threatens the world, they are forced into action.
Finally, we have 3D Resident Evil: Retribution starring the gorgeous Milla Jovovich which is the fifth installment of the tremendously-successful saga which has grossed US$700 million.
Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, the latest entry sees the Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continuing to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of flesh-eating undead.
The human race’s last and only hope, Alice (Jovovich), awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she hunts down those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true.
Aided and abetted by new allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion.
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Sep
24
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Vietnam-Korea exchange concert
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Three Korean artists will grace a concert at HCMC Opera House tomorrow - Photo: Courtesy of HBSO
A friendship concert with performances from Korean trio - soprano Cho Hae Ryong, pianist Sun Young Ju and violinist Cho Ga Hyun - will take place at HCMC Opera House at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. The concert will be staged under the baton of conductor Cho Hong Rae for the first part and Vietnamese conductor Tran Vuong Thach for the second part.
The event starts with the Radedzky March of Strauss and Mountain Village of Cho Do Nam, Julliet’s Waltz from Romeo and Juliet of C. Gounod and Concerto No.1 ofBeethoven. The second part will feature Song of old home town of Lee Soo In, Les filles de Cadix by Leo Delibes and Concerto for C major for violin and orchestra of Beethoven.
Tickets are priced at VND200,000 and VND400,000 each and are available at the HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) Office, 3 Phan Van Dat Street, tel 08 3823 7419 and at the Opera House, 7 Lam Son Square in District 1.
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Talisman, East Meets West gift drinking water to pupils
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24/09/2012 10:06:47
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More Mid-Autumn programs for kids
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24/09/2012 09:37:32
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Mid-Autumn Festival celebration with Saigontourist
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24/09/2012 09:23:53
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Discovering the beauty of the northern provinces by motorbike
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24/09/2012 09:19:19
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Cruise, cuisine and culture on Saigon River
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24/09/2012 09:12:52
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Hanoi hosts exhibition of Japanese KIRIGAMI
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24/09/2012 09:05:49
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Hanoi hosts exhibition of Japanese KIRIGAMI
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24/09/2012 08:55:50
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Nguyen Truong Son wins first prize at Davines hair show
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24/09/2012 08:54:15
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Elderly scholar determined to complete book
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24/09/2012 08:52:30
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