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Situated roughly eight km away from Cat Ba town, it takes about 30 minutes to travel to the Hospital Cave by motorbike. The cave can easily be found by following the signs along the road. The three-metre wide entrance is located halfway up the mountain, meaning visitors must climb up a wooden staircase. Previously, the cave was named after Hung Son, a military general who served during the era of the Tran Dynasty. He is said to have been the first person to have discovered this cave in the 13th century. From 1963 to 1965, as the American War escalated, a field hospital was established in order to treat wounded soldiers and shelter them from attacks. Following this, local people started to refer to it as the ‘Hospital Cave’. This hospital has about 17 rooms for patients along with a number of other rooms for doctors. It also has a physical recovery room, meeting room, a kitchen room, a medicine room, and a weapons r...

The collection includes four 37mm by 54mm stamp designs, as well as one 80mm by 105mm miniature sheet. The miniature sheet costs VND15,000, while the price of the four remaining stamps stands at VND4,000 each.  The stamps have been designed by painter Nguyen Quang Vinh of the Vietnam Post Corporation, with the artist making use of water colour design methods in order to develop the colourful and beautiful collection. Purple phoenix flowers, known as Jacaranda acutifolia by their scientific name, are mainly grown in Da Lat city where temperatures tend to be cool throughout the year. The flowers usually blossom in March around Da Lat city. It normally takes a flower up to five days to truly blossom, with the inflorescences often taking turns to bloom regularly over the course of a four to five-month period. The collection will be made available from March 30 before ending on December 31, 2024. The post New stamp collection on purple phoenix flowers issued ...

The conference, themed “Promoting the role of world cultural and natural heritage in sustainable development in Vietnam,” was jointly held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Vietnam National Commission for UNESCO and the Hanoi People’s Committee. It formed part of activities marking 35 years since Vietnam ratified the 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. The participants reviewed the protection and promotion of world cultural and natural heritage values in Vietnam, and exchanged experience in state management and the optimisation of world heritage values in local socio-economic development. Vice Chairman of the Hanoi Municipal People’s Committee Ha Minh Hai said after the Thang Long Imperial Citadel won the UNESCO recognition in 2010, the Government, ministries, agencies and local authorities have focused on preserving the site and promoting its historical, cultural, architectural and artistic values. C...