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Hanoi has welcomed more than 5.3 million foreign arrivals so far this year, up 10.8 percent from the same period in 2018.

The Hanoi Promotion Agency (HPA) will launch a tourism promotion programme in Japan and join the Tourism Expo Japan (JATA) 2019 in Osaka later this month, aiming to further exploit the nearly 127 million-strong market.

Hanoi has been ranked fifth among the seven best places in Asia for solo travellers by Bigseventravel.

Hanoi welcomed more than 4.7 million foreign tourists in the first nine months of 2019, a year-on-year increase of 10.1 percent, announced the municipal Department of Tourism on September 24.

Following the property boom in Ha Long city, Van Don district and Quang Yen town, Mong Cai city is emerging as a new magnet for real estate developers in the northeastern province of Quang Ninh.

Hanoi has been emerging as a top destination for both domestic and foreign travellers in recent years, and it is still working to establish itself as a true tourist hub.

The real estate market in the northeastern province of Quang Ninh is booming this year, in line with previous forecasts.

A ceremony was held in Hanoi on May 19 to announce the implementation of Sanrio Hello Kitty World Hanoi by BRG project - the first entertainment complex by the group in Southeast Asia.

The southern province of Kien Giang welcomed more than 353,500 visitors during the nine-day Lunar New Year (Tet), a year-on-year rise of 27.4 percent.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had a working session with authorities from the Mekong Delta province of An Giang in Hanoi on December 6 to seek measures to implement key socio-economic projects.

The FLC Group will begin the building of its eco-resort and entertainment complex in the central province of Nghe An in the first quarter of 2018.

The FLC Group wants to develop a smart urban complex in the centre of northern Thai Binh city, Trinh Van Quyet, the group’s chairman of the management board, has said.

The Southern Institute of Ecology has discovered three new plant species unknown to the world in the Son Tra Nature Reserve during a three-year research and revaluation of its biodiversity, Dr Luu Hong Truong told a recent scientific conference in Da Nang.

Hanoi authority has approved an architecture plan on Hoa Sen theatre floating on a lake between Yen Hoa and My Dinh, according to the city’s Department of Architecture and Planning.

Construction of a 40,000-m2 service-entertainment complex in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang’s Rach Gia City started on March 18.

Vietnamese students studying nuclear power in Obninsk, a city in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, enjoyed activities at a Obninsk Summer Camp 2016 held at the Pine River Entertainment Park.

The presence of large investors like Vingroup and Sungroup on Kien Giang province’s Phu Quoc Island is expected to increase the investment flow into the “pearl island”.

The Sun Group held a ceremony on September 4 to commence construction on a resort complex on Hon Thom Island and a cable car line linking it with Phu Quoc Island off southern Kien Giang povince.

The central province of Quang Binh has announced a list of 34 tourism projects calling for investments from 2015-2020 with total capital of over 23 trillion VND (1.03 billion USD).