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Old archives of images from 1960s Saigon are easy to come by, but how often does one get to have a peek into the past version of Đà Lạt.

A serious landslide caused by heavy rains occurred in Da Lat city, the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong in early morning of June 29, damaging four houses.

An international consultation workshop was held on June 8 to help compile a dossier seeking membership of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network for Da Lat city, the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, in the field of music.

Vietravel Airlines on June 7 officially ran its first two flights linking Hanoi with Da Lat city in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong and Cam Ranh city in the central province of Khanh Hoa.

A large number of Vietnamese tourists have chosen Da Nang and Sa Pa as destinations for their summer trips, according to a recent survey conducted by Southeast Asia research and analytics firm Milieu Insight.

Localities across Vietnam saw a boom in the number of tourists during the five-day holidays of Hung Kings Commemoration Day, Reunification Day and International Workers’ Day from April 29 to May 3 – the second longest national holidays only after the lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

More than 200 streets and landmarks in Vietnam and France that carry imprints of history of the relations between the two countries have been spotlighted in a book titled “Dau an Phap-Viet qua ten nhung con duong (French-Vietnamese imprints through the names of roads) by overseas Vietnamese writer Tran Thu Dzung.

A new stamp collection depicting the blooming flowers from fern trees that grow abundantly in Da Lat has been issued by Vietnam Post Corporation under the Ministry of Information and Communications.

Police in the resort city of Da Lat in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on March 27 announced that a Korean tourist died on March 25 after his motorbike crashed into a roadside power pole.

Farmers in the Central Highlands city of Dalat are complaining about losses as local traders are selling Chinese strawberries under the Dalat brand name.