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Vietnam should launch more direct routes to the Middle East, offer an open visa policy, and even open new Halal restaurants to attract wealthy tourists from the Middle East, experts say. Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Doan Van Viet told a recent travel industry meeting that nearly 60 …

Thousands of families living in the Hue Imperial Citadel, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, will be relocated. Authorities in the central Vietnamese town of Hue have launched the second phase of a project to remove households that have been living for decades inside the Hue Imperial Citadel, a national relic …

Standing on the bank of the Mekong River, Tran Van Cung can see his rice farm wash away before his very eyes. The paddy’s edge is crumbling into the delta. Just 15 years ago, Southeast Asia’s longest river carried some 143 million tonnes of sediment – as heavy as about …