Ha Noi has revved its procedures for land-use rights and house ownership certificates, also known as "red books", to buyers of apartments.

VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities in the two major cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City will delay an increase in the prices of the number of healthcare services that was scheduled for September.

VietNamNet Bridge – An increasing number of people have contracted human influenza type A/H1N1 in recent days, including whole families, but doctors are calling for public calm after establishing it is merely seasonal flu.

VietNamNet Bridge – Explosive bands from Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines and Viet Nam will take to the main stage for a full day of music at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations music festival next weekend.

VietNamNet Bridge - After a series of overcharging cases against foreign tourists, Hanoi authorities will inspect several taxi firms that usually break the rules. The firms that repeat violations will have their license revoked.

VietNamNet Bridge – The capital's first-ever street football tournament will kick off on Sunday in Ha Noi.

VietNamNet Bridge – The famed Polish Royal String Quartet (RSQ) will perform their debut concert in Ha Noi on May 7, showcasing several compositions from world-famous composers.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi People's Committee has agreed to grant certificates of land-use rights and house ownership, known in Viet Nam as a "red book", to overseas Vietnamese and foreigner home buyers.

VietNamNet Bridge – Life - and the incomes - of residents in Tu Liem District's Tay Tuu Commune have taken off since it was decided to switch to growing high-quality flowers instead of vegetables and rice.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A music show coming to Ha Noi at the beginning of May promises to bring local crowds some diva fever.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As a foreigner coming to Hanoi for the first time, I have spent a day locating a bicycle shop and haggling about the price, but found it not easy to get one.

Updated information about cultural events in big cities of Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – After leaving his village in central Thanh Hoa Province to earn a living as a construction worker in Ha Noi, Le Xuan Thuan, 35, started missing his house. It was large and comfortable – and stable.

VietNamNet Bridge – A Filipino couple has been put on trial for fraud at the Hanoi People’s Court. Their victims were foreign visitors to Vietnam.

Only several stunted saplings have been seen on the newly opened roads in Hanoi. While the natural area of Hanoi has increased by four folds, the greenery area has not increased accordingly.

A lot of high end shopping malls have closed down after the failed efforts to drag out their existence.

VietNamNet Bridge – Officials on Friday, April 26, raided a wholesale poultry market in Ha Noi, in an effort to prevent the smuggling of poultry from China.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi's Department of Information and Communications has asked telecommunication companies to stop offering services to more than 100 enterprises that posted advertisements illegally in public places.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi, the political, economic and cultural center of Viet Nam, has attracted a large number of people from other areas coming to work and settle in recent years.  

Although the Hanoi government has taken some actions to protect the ceramic road, recently the work that is recognized as a world record has kept downgrading, making many people pity.