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Ha Noi Transport Corporation (Transerco) has been put in charge of granting licences and managing car parks in the centre of Ha Noi on a trial basis from next month, the municipal People’s Committee has announced. Restaurant staff park customers’ motobikes on Kim Nguu Street, Hai Ba Trung District, Ha Noi. (Photo: VNS) Transerco, a [...]
Pianist Nguyen Anh 9 will celebrate 50 years in music with an one-night concert in Ha Noi’s Au Co Theatre on Thursday. Keyed up: Pianist Nguyen Anh 9 has composed about 30 songs mostly about broken love. — File Photo The concert will be the first held by the HCM-based pianist in the capital [...]
Two hundred and fifty of the best photos at the sixth International Artistic Photo Contest in Viet Nam are now on display at the Temple of Literature in Ha Noi. Life in mono: The black-and-white photo Three Little Mong Girls by Tran Thiet Dung won a gold medal. The contest was launched in May [...]
Singer of the Year 2010 Tung Duong will perform the songs that created his reputation during his first ever live show in Ha Noi this week. Entitled Nhung Chuyen Di (The Journeys), the show is a story of the milestones in his career over the past eight years since Duong shot to fame in the [...]
The Ha Noi Department of Transport proposes to ban all vehicles in 10 streets in the central city from early next year, the department director, Nguyen Quoc Hung, said on Tuesday. The streets are Hang Dao, Hang Ngang, Hang Duong, Dong Xuan, Le Lai, Le Thach, Le Thai To, Dinh Tien Hoang, Hang Khay and [...]
French rapper and jazz artist Kad Achouri will perform in Viet Nam for one night only at the French Cultural Centre in Ha Noi on November 15. Achouri will sing with music from Adalberto de Jesus Morgado Alves (percussion), Kim Marray (guitar) and Lan Toothill (bass). Piano, bandoneon and string instruments will also feature in [...]
More than 140 artists from 23 ca tru (ceremonial singing) clubs nationwide will perform in the National Ca Tru Festival in Ha Noi on October 13-16. The artists will compete in four categories: hat cua dinh (singing at communal house in villages), hat cua quyen (singing at royal palaces), hat choi (singing in homes) and [...]
The four-day Ha Noi International Fair 2011 (Hanoi Expo 2011) kicked off last Friday in the capital. About 400 domestic and foreign enterprises, involved in finance, insurance, banking, information technology, software, food and beverages, garments, leather shoes and crafts, are showing their wares in over 800 stalls. The annual event is co-organised by Ha Noi [...]
Race against time: Scientists and administrators at Xuan Thuy National Park in the northern province of Nam Dinh have been developing a taller mangrove species (Sonneratia apetala) in the park’s sapling garden to replace the current mangrove forest (Sonneratia ceseolaries) which has been devastated by rising sea levels. — VNS Photo Truong Vi HA [...]
Construction of Ha Noi’s first urban railway line resumes today Construction of an elevated urban railway line connecting Dong Da District’s Cat Linh Street and Ha Dong District’s Yen Nghia Bus Station, both in Ha Noi, resumes today, Oct 10, after a period of delay. The 13km line will link two of the most crowded [...]