VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi will set up an agency to help provide tourists with an all-inclusive support service to help deal with various problems, including harassment, beginning August 1.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Apart from their ugliness, the tangled mess of overhead power lines, phone and television cables in Ha Noi continues to pose a threat to city residents.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi will build two steel frame car-lots on the streets of Nguyen Cong Hoan and Tran Nhat Duat with a total cost of nearly VND122 billion ($6 million) to keep 312 cars this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Movie critics predict that two of the seven documentary films produced by young, amateur filmmakers in Ha Noi will win the Golden Lotus Bud award this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The portraits of street barbers in Vietnam have appeared on CBS News. The photos were taken by Chris McGrath.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The fire broke out at the 4th floor of Finegans Hotel, which is dedicated to foreign tenants on Nguyen Huu Huan Street, Hanoi at 2.15pm today.

 VietNamNet Bridge - In a small public space, all kinds of billboards and signboards of various sizes, leaflets and even street name plates are hung, making “wall rubbish” in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The image of small, crowded sidewalks where many people concentrate on reading the newspaper, smoking or chatting with friends besides cups of coffee has become very familiar in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge - After five years of the administrative boundary expansion, the income of Hanoians increased from $1,697 in 2008 to $2,257 in 2012.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In Co Nhue, Tu Liem District, and Quynh Thanh, Thanh Tri District, Hanoi, water spinach is planted near and even on tombs in the cemetery of Co Nhue commune. These vegetable fields are incredibly verdant.

  Updated information about cultural events in big cities of Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said he was impressed with the Vietnamese football fans and believed that the sport's popularity in Viet Nam would grow stronger in the future.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi People's Committee heralded a new programme to ‘limit the use of nylon bags to protect the environment' on Saturday.

 Co Loa outdoor studios in Hanoi’s Dong Anh District has failed to attract a lot of local film makers due to substandard infrastructure and high service fees.

John Ramsden is a diplomat but he has a passion for photography. From 1980 to 1983, he was sent to Hanoi as part of the British Diplomatic Service’s mission. Within three years, he traveled around Hanoi and took nearly 2,000 photos.

In the time of economic crisis when thousands of businesses have gone bankrupt, enterprises cut down spending for advertising. Thus, hundreds of outdoor billboards in Hanoi have become blank boards.

VietNamNet Bridge – The tragedy of private drama troupes in HCM City is that they can draw the audience to their all-the-year-round performances but they do not have their own theatres.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Minister for Natural Resources and the Environment Nguyen Minh Quang has criticised the authorities in 22 of the country's cities and provinces for the long time they take to grant certificates for land-use rights.

Hanoi has decided that it can pay the salaries 20 times higher than the usual levels in order to attract talents. This is one of a series of new policies laid down by the city’s authorities after the Capital Law took effects on July 1.

The establishment of high quality schools has been approved by the Hanoi People’s Council. The existence of the schools, which set high tuitions, called the schools for the rich, has raised controversy.