VietNamNet Bridge – In the afternoon of December 20, Japanese tourist - Mr. Hajime Mori received a campaign medal for the 25 millionth international visitor to Hanoi in 2013.

A Tourism and Festival Information Center has been inaugurated in the ancient capital of Hue in Thua Thien-Hue Province by the Hue Festival Management Board.

Most foreign tourists say that they are very upset being disturbed by peddlers while walking on the street. "They are tenacious and do not give up following us and they sold things very expensive,” a French female tourist complained.

Nguyen Quoc Oai, 60, former director of the Hanoi-based Post Office Hospital, has been arrested for making false documents to appropriate over VND66 billion ($3.3 million) of the Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – The Sword Lake, the Temple of Literature with primitive dirt roads or the girls in brassiere are very lively in the works by French photographer Leon Busy.

On December 13, the people in Lai Son hamlet of Bac Son commune in Soc Son district received the money from the Hanoi Urban Environment Company as the compensation for their two months of living with the polluted water.

 The Red River Delta-Hai Phong National Tourism Year 2013 ended in the northern port city on December 14.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Long Bien Bridge is the first steel bridge across the Red River, connecting the districts of Hoan Kiem and Long Bien.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Despite of the cold weather, Hanoi, Ha Giang, Moc Chau ... are very beautiful with yellow mustard flower fields, with roads covered by mist or little ethnic minority girls with pink cheeks because of the dry weather.

 VietNamNet Bridge - This dance floor does not have flashing lights, and the dancers do wear beautiful clothes but they are still enamored with the familiar melodies on the West lakeside.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Retailers hunting for retail premises to open shops to enlarge their distribution networks, have bubbled over with joy as a lot of products have been put on sale, with very reasonable prices.

Updated information about cultural events in big cities of Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The first time I rode a bus in Ha Noi was one afternoon in early March this year, two weeks after I arrived in the country.

Robert Legage, a theatre artist from Canada recently introduced in Hanoi a video of the opera The Nightingale and Other Short Fables, which was inspired from Vietnamese water puppetry.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many city dwellers in new urban areas are sending their children to public schools in central Ha Noi, despite crowded classes of up to 50 students.

 VietNamNet Bridge – It is more than 30 meters high, weighs 5 tons and is decorated with 100,000 LEDs. The tallest Christmas tree in Vietnam is located in Royal City, a major urban area in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge - According to Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s newly-issued decision, the headquarters of three ministries and several residential areas around the Ba Dinh political center, Hanoi,  will be relocated.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Thousands of curious people came to the field of Phu My village in Ngoc My commune, Quoc Oai district, Hanoi, on December 10 to see the excavation of a 300-year tomb.

 When visiting the northern province of Ha Giang with its winding roads, mighty mountains, terraced fields and waterfalls, travelers should drop by the Waterfall No. 6 at the center of Ha Giang City to enjoy its cool water after a long journey.