Hanoi Travel News

Around 1000sq.m of Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake will be dredged for the first time using modern equipment in mid-November.

A Vietnamese American businessman has expressed his wish to build a park as a present for the city’s 1000th anniversary.

The American people now have the chance to learn more about Vietnamese fine arts, as well as its culture, when “Arts of Ancient Vietnam: From River Plain to Open Sea” opens at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (MFAH), Texas.

An exhibition introducing the Taoism worshipping tradition upheld by ethnic people in the northern mountainous areas of Vietnam opened in Hanoi on October 21.

An online dialogue themed “1000 years of Thang Long-Hanoi - Traditional values” was held on October 18, helping readers better understand historical and cultural traditions as well as heritage values of Thang Long-Hanoi.

Vietnamese film industry representatives at the Busan (Korea) Film Festival have announced that a film festival will be part of the Hanoi/Thang Long 1,000th anniversary celebration next year, according to the Hollywood Reporter, a film industry journal.

A ceremony was held in Hanoi on October 10 to celebrate the 999th anniversary of the capital and announce the National Tourism Year 2010.

The Long Bien Bridge Memory Festival opened in Hanoi on October 10 to mark the 55th anniversary of the Capital’s Liberation Day and the 10th year Hanoi has been recognised as a City for Peace by UNESCO.

 Nearly 100 photos of Hanoi by French journalist and photographer, Dominique de Miscault, are on display at the Vietnam Cultural Centre in Paris.

Workers have unearthed a stone tortoise while they were digging to build the foundation for a worshipping tower at the front yard of Kim Lien Pagoda, Dong Da District, Hanoi.

Promotions for Viet Nam National Tourism Year 2010 will start in Ha Noi tomorrow, October 10, with a series of commemorations for the 999th anniversary of Thang Long-Ha Noi.

 October 10, 1954, marks the collapse of French colonialism in Indochina and the Vietnamese people’s glorious victory over it, which opened a new era for the capital city of Hanoi and the country.

Travel Indochina, a leading Australian tourist company, has become the country’s first operator to introduce tours to Vietnam on the 1,000th founding anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

Government agencies in Hanoi are proposing cyclos be reduced or banned in the capital after 2010.