After falling short in two previous seasons of Vietnam Project Runway – a reality television series for up-and-coming designers, the 23-year-old student Tien Truyen won the show at the grand finale on Saturday night.

 Each 9th and 10th lunar months, Hoi An faces flooding. It usually happens after a storm, when water gushes down from the nearby mountains, while the sea level rises and adds to the problem.

 Domestic airlines have launched promotional ticket fares and increased the number of flights to serve the increasing demand on the occasion of the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday.

 Representatives of ten international sponsors took part in a roundtable meeting in Hanoi on January 28 to discuss their coordination in support of responsible tourism in Vietnam.

Nha Trang, Da Lat and Phu Quoc are favourite destinations in Vietnam for tourists to go sightseeing, discover culture and taste food during the long Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

 People flocked to Sa Pa and Mau Son Mountain in the mountainous provinces of Lao Cai and Lang Son last weekend to enjoy the snow and ice produced by the exceptionally cold weather.

 More than 805,000 visits were made to Vietnam by international tourists in January, a 5.8 percent increase from last month and 12.3 percent surge from the same month last year, said the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.

The Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap, some 200km from Ho Chi Minh City, has many interesting places to visit and things to do.

 Admission prices at Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park will remain unchanged until end-2017, the management of the park said at a tourism promotion conference in HCMC on Monday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Department of Transport of Ha Noi has asked its inspectors to stiffen punishments of violating vehicles in order to ensure traffic safety during the Lunar New Year Festival.

 More than 10,000 visitors are estimated to have descended on the northern resort town of Sapa on January 24 to catch a glimpse of the snowfall - a rare occurrence in a tropical country like Vietnam.

 Some 124 tourists have been stranded on Ly Son Island, 30km off central Quang Ngai Province, as passenger boat services have been suspended due to rough seas.

 Despite the cold winter, Moc Chau Plateau in Son La northern province maintains its stunning beauty with colourful flowers.

Director of the Hoang Lien National Park has asked travel agencies to cancel mountaineering tours, including the tour to Fansipan – the roof of Indochina - from January 23 through 27 because of bad weather.

 Deciduous season is the best time to visit rubber forests in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai. It usually falls around the end of December.

 La Siesta Hotel in Hanoi has been listed among top 10 world's best hotels by TripAdvisor – the world’s largest tourism website.

 More than 100 domestic and foreign travel agents are expected to attend the first ever MICE (business) tourism expo set for June 24-26 at the at the Tien Son Sports Centre in central Danang city, officials have announced.

 An eight-minute film featuring Vietnam’s beautiful landscapes, unique culture and 30-year reform achievements, began a seminar held in Panama on January 20, to popularise Vietnam’s people and tourism potentials.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Hanoi People's Committee has decided to move the deceased Hoan Kiem turtle to the Museum of Nature (Vietnam Academy of Sciences) for maintenance.

 The Hanoi Department of Tourism will coordinate with the municipal police and relevant agencies to clarify the case regarding 59 Vietnamese visitors who ran away during their trip to Jeju Island in the Republic of Korea (RoK).