Hạ Long Bay not named in UNESCO’s list of World Heritages in Danger
To date, Việt Nam’s heritage sites have not been named in the List of World Heritages in Danger.
Post-typhoon cleanup campaign in Hạ Long Bay commenced
Due to the impact of Yagi, the amount of garbage in Hạ Long Bay is relatively large and complicated, including broken pieces of aquaculture rafts, branches, leaves, foam beads from broken plastic oyster buoys (HDPE), household waste, and sunken ships.
Hạ Long Bay – Cát Bà Archipelago honoured among global geological heritage for second time
The Global Geoparks Network (GGN) honoured Hạ Long Bay – Cát Bà Archipelago as one of the 100 world geological heritage sites for the second time at a ceremony to mark its 20th anniversary in the northern province of Cao Bang on Wednesday.
Hạ Long Bay - Cát Bà Archipelago recognised as World Geological Heritage
The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) has recognised Hạ Long Bay - Cát Bà Archipelago in the northern province of Quảng Ninh and neighbouring Hải Phòng City as a world geological heritage site, Associate Professor Dr Trần Tân Văn, former Director of the Vietnam Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), said on August 25.
Foreign arrivals to Hạ Long Bay nearly double domestic number
With the ticket revenue to June 17 nearing VNĐ448 billion (US$17.6 million), the revenues the site earned this year is expected to exceed the target of VNĐ800 billion.
Environmental protection efforts augmented in Hạ Long Bay
To help Hạ Long Bay remain a green, clean and beautiful destination attractive to domestic and international visitors, joint efforts by residents, tourists and the international community are necessary.
Quảng Ninh makes effort to preserve old fishing villages in Hạ Long Bay
Urgent action is needed to breath new life into Cửa Vạn and Vung Viêng fishing villages.
In search of a long lost Hạ Long Bay
Thirty years after the first documented application for Hạ Long Bay to become a UNESCO Natural Heritage site, work on this natural gem of Việt Nam still seems unfinished.