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A large number of Russian tourists are choosing Vietnam for their holidays instead of Egypt, according to the Voice of Russia.

A festival to celebrate the 1,971st anniversary of the Trung sisters’ uprising (40AD) was solemnly organised in Hanoi’s outskirts district of Me Linh on the 6th day of the first lunar month which fell on February 8 on the modern calendar.

HCMC is preparing for traditional Tet (Lunar New Year) with music shows, charity activities, art exhibitions and calligraphy markets.

A meeting was held in Hanoi on January 25 to review activities of National Tourism Year 2010.

Three central provinces are planning to set up a joint representative office in Japan as part of a program to attract tourists from there.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on January 22 launched a national action plan to preserve and develop the value of the Giong Festival, which has been recognised as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the UNESCO.

The Vietnam-based office of Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board will organize many events this year to promote tourism products to Vietnamese tourists, said the office director.

In 2008, international visitors to Viet Nam reached a record of nearly 4.236 million arrivals; however, a new record of Viet Nam tourism has been set when the international visitors exceeded 4.6 million arrivals in 11 months in 2010.

Fifteen minutes of fireworks will be displayed at 7 locations and many flower markets will open for the coming lunar New Year (Tet holiday) in HCM City.

Fifty-five photos on Hanoi taken by contemporary French photographers and a documentary photo are on display at an exhibition which opened at the Gustave Courbet Primary School in Romainville city, 15 km east of Paris , on November 29.