Some Vietnam Airlines flights were delayed by as much as three hours in Hanoi Wednesday morning due to thick fog. Five flights to Da Nang on the central coast and the southern hub Ho Chi Minh City, scheduled to depart at 6 am, 6:30, 7:30, and 8:30, had to wait until the fog cleared over Noi Bai airport before taking off.
Six countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) have coordinated with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to build a strategy on sustainable development of tourism for the 2006-2015 period.
When Lunar New Year (Tet) comes, the rich and the poor alike all want to get a branch or a tree of mai, a type of apricot with yellow flowers, to decorate their houses during the festive holidays.
