Miss World 2018 travels 20 hours to Vietnam for Hanoi cuisine, Sa Pa rice terraces
Travel 11:27 18/09/2026Miss World 2018 Vanessa Ponce de León spent 20 hours traveling to Vietnam for a short trip that took her from Hanoi’s street-food stalls and temples to Sa Pa’s ripe rice terraces.
Beware, foreigners! You may have eaten Indian buffalo meat imported by this arrestee instead of northwestern Vietnam’s specialty!
Vietnam News 23:20 24/08/2026Foreign tourists may have been sold Indian buffalo meat while being told they were buying a specialty from Vietnam's northwestern region.
Agoda names Sa Pa Asia’s fastest-growing destination in 2025
Travel 16:36 07/01/2026Sa Pa, a tourist hub in Lao Cai Province, northern Vietnam, emerged as Asia’s fastest-growing travel destination in 2025, soaring 15 places in Agoda’s ranking of the region’s top 100 destinations amid a surge of interest from international travelers, according to the digital travel platform.
Landslide sweeps car off mountain road in northern Vietnam; driver unharmed
Vietnam News 09:07 30/09/2025A car was swept off a mountain road during a landslide in Vietnam’s northern Lao Cai Province on Monday afternoon, local officials said. Fortunately, the driver was unharmed.
Sa Pa homestay offers free stays on National Day for veterans, tourists from Laos, Cuba, Russia
Travel 10:42 21/08/2025A homestay in Sa Pa, a tourist hub in northern Vietnam, will offer free rooms on the occasion of Vietnam’s National Day (September 2) for war veterans, families of those who served the nation in the revolution, Heroic Vietnamese Mothers, as well as visitors from Laos, Cuba, and Russia.
Where is the highest-altitude reservoir in Vietnam?
Vietnam Life 11:05 26/01/2024The man-made lake is arguably the highest body of water in Indochina
Vietnam to build $305mn airport in northern resort town
Economy 14:14 22/10/2021The construction is expected to last four years
Fire at gas cylinder store burns three houses in northern Vietnam
Vietnam News 11:58 12/08/2021It took two hours to extinguish the blaze
Sa Pa pulls down disproportionate statue of Disney princess Elsa following Internet fallout
Vietnam News 15:49 24/07/2021The statue was pulled down on Thursday
Tourism complex in northern Vietnam faces backlash over ill-shaped statue of Disney princess Elsa
Travel 19:42 20/07/2021A picture of the statue has gone viral and garnered mixed reactions
Officials to inspect construction of disproportionate Statue of Liberty replica in northern Vietnam
Vietnam News 20:01 21/04/2021Photos of the statue went viral on social media for its outlandish look
In Sa Pa, ethnic children forced to peddle on streets in bitterly cold night
Vietnam News 21:38 10/01/2021The mercury of the highland tourist hub of Sa Pa approached zero
