PM wants tighter control over spread of bird flu
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has sent an urgent message asking local authorities to double efforts to control outbreaks of bird flu in 11 provinces across the country.
Despite drizzle and cold weather, 31,000 visitors, including 7,200
foreigners, visited relics in the former imperial city of Hue during the
first three days of the Lunar New Year (Jan. 23-25).
Visiting Hue on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Christina Volkmann from the US and Graham Brigge from Australia said that Hue is very beautiful and local people are friendly and hospitable.
According to the Hue Relics Preservation Centre, Thua Thien-Hue province plans to welcome between 2-2.5 million visitors to see the Hue relics this year, especially since the province will be the locality to launch the national tourism year.
The province also aims to expand cooperation with partners from the Republic of Korea , Japan , Germany , the US and Poland , to recover and preserve projects in the relics sites.
The centre said it is researching the royal gastronomy under the Nguyen dynasty and the system of poetry and literature system of Hue relics, in order to submit them for recognition as world heritages in the 2013-2014 period./.
