I had read about the traffic, but nothing quite prepared me for the reality in this city of about 8.5 million – the motorbikes, the regular bikes, the cars, the pedestrians, all coming at me from ...

Tourists visiting the world's UNESCO heritage site Ha Long Bay can take in panoramic views from the sky aboard stationary hot air balloons starting this April.

Summary of previous deliberations: At its twenty-second ordinary session (June 1998), the Bureau had noted that the Government of Vietnam/JICA study on environmental management for Ha Long Bay had ...

Ha Long Bay, in the Gulf of Tonkin, includes some 1,600 islands and islets, forming a spectacular seascape of limestone pillars. Because of their precipitous nature, most of the islands are ...