Hanoi Travel News

A competition on propaganda posters was launched in Hanoi yesterday to mark the 65th anniversary of August Revolution and the National Day (September 2).

Hanoi Craft Week 2010 will take place from Aug. 4-9 at the Friendship Cultural Palace in Hanoi with the participation of 500 craft villages.

1000 objects representing Vietnam in 2010 will be buried in a special container in Hanoi this October and opened in 1000 years from now.

The capital city of Hanoi is ranked as one the world's most ideal tourism destination, announced Frommer, a US prestigious tourist publisher.

Nearly 100 out of the 1,270 craft villages in Hanoi have posted revenues of between 10-50 billion VND per year--some even reaching the hundreds of billions.

A yearbook charting Hanoi’s 1,000-year history and the cultural relics in the capital has recently been published by the Publishing House of Culture and Information.

The Republic of Korea’s Nanta show (a kitchen utensils art performance) and its Everland tourism complex were introduced to Hanoi’s tour operators on March 2.

Hanoi is ranked third among 12 most attractive destinations in the world in 2010, announced a US prestigious tourist publisher.

More than 200 Overseas Vietnamese, Vietnamese Embassy staff in Denmark and Danish friends attended a meeting to mark the Lunar New Year Festival and the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

A giant Banh Day (a traditional Vietnamese cake) will be transported from Phu Minh town in Hanoi to Bai Dinh pagoda in Ninh Binh province on a festival next week of March 3.

Thousands of people on the evening of February 27 flocked to major pagodas in Hanoi to make ceremonial offerings to wish for peace and good luck on the occasion of Tet Nguyen Tieu (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month festival).

If you want to try the best of Hanoi’s gastronomic classics, you’ll have to head out after dark to the capital’s late-night curb-side food stalls before they vanish in the wake of a “clean the streets” campaign.

The Ha Noi Construction Department is preparing draft regulations for the management and use of the city's prized State-owned French-style villas for the People's Committee's eventual approval.

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