Finance Ministry following up on accusations by local online hotel provider Vntrip.com regarding Agoda.com's tax affairs.

 Whenever describing the Kinh Bac area, we always mentionthe two world heritage sites and hundreds of relic sites, beauty spots, and traditional craft villages. 

 The country is celebrating the first days of a lunar new year, the Year of the Rooster, with hopes for a better year compared with the previous Year of the Monkey.

Plants at Thong Nhat Park in Hanoi have been shaped into 12 animal designations to welcome the traditional Lunar New Year festival or Tet.

 As a decades-long Vietnamese tradition, the calligraphy markets in HCM City have attracted locals and tourists looking for artworks that will bring them happiness, success, wealth and health.

 Cao Ba Hung, an 18-year-old boy, was announced as winner of the reality talent show Sing My Song on January 22 night.

 The My Son religious site in the central province of Quang Nam, a World Cultural Heritage site, is facing pressure from the increasing number of visitors.

Nguyen Tien Dat has been selected by the Department of Performing Arts to represent Vietnam at Mister International 2017 (February 5-15) in Thailand, reports the Zing online newspaper.

A wide range of cultural activities are taking place in the Old Quarter in Hanoi to welcome the Year of the Rooster.

 The Thang Long - Hanoi Heritage Conservation Centre plans to open a new excavation area, north of Doan Mon relic site, to visitors from January 20 to February 28.

 Sai Gon Pho (Saigon Streets), a pop-up book on HCM City’s major landmarks, was released on January 15.

Singers Ha Ho, Son Tung MTP, Noo PhuocThinh, Toc Tien and Chi Phu look gorgeous in Ao Dai to welcome traditional Lunar New Year or Tet.

 The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on December 27 announced the top 10 events of the sector in 2016. The list includes nine fine arts events and one photographic event.

 2016 was an eventful year for Vietnamese fine arts, as it saw efforts by artists and managers to create and build a healthy and professional fine arts market despite numerous limitations and difficulties.

 A set of stamps themed ‘Year of the Rooster’ has recently been issued by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) to welcome in the lunar New Year 2017 and the year of the Rooster in Eastern culture.

Here are the top five choices of the best places to spend the Christmas holiday in Ho Chi Minh City.

K-pop band sensation – T-ara – is set to liven up the Quan Khu 7 Stadium in Ho Chi Minh City this coming January 17.

 As many as 37 professional troupes are competing in the HCM City Open Unicorn-Lion-Dragon Dance Championship being held during weekends at Dam Sen Park in District 11.

 The Da Nang fine arts museum, the third fine arts museum in the country, opened to the public on December 19. 

 A celebration of 110th birthday anniversary of To Ngoc Van (1906-1954), one of Viet Nam’s most influential painters in the first half of the 20th century, has just been organised by the Vietnam Fine Arts Association.