VietNamNet Bridge – Violin virtuoso Maxim Fedetov will lead Russian and Vietnamese musicians in two classical concerts in Ha Noi and HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – On April 1, Hanoi police arrested two men who are accused of “making unlawful arrest,” who forced their debtor to put his face into a feces bucket.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition exploring exotic inner-city gardens by Jamie Maxtone-Graham, an American photographer based in Ha Noi, is currently on display at the Manzi Art Space.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many taxi firms in Ha Noi are expected to raise taxi fares by VND600 -1,000 per kilometre in the next fortnight, responding to the recent petrol price hike,

Hanoi authorities have discovered nearly 90 cases of illegal transportation of chicken and destroyed more than 35 tons of chicken and frozen chicken and 170,000 eggs in the past three months.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi's education sector is busy building more kindergartens to meet the local people's demand but land is scarce and teachers in short supply.

Updated information about cultural events in big cities of Vietnam.

 More than 200 Vietnamese and international scholars, researchers and entrepreneurs gathered in Ha Noi yesterday to share experiences related to sustainable architecture.

Barely 26 per cent of surveyed people in Ha Noi were satisfied with the attitude of administrative staff, indicating that efforts to cut red tape in the city face huge hurdles.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi People's Committee has announced that it would build an eight-storey trade centre near Hoan Kiem Lake amid concerns about limiting development in the historical centre of the city.

VietNamNet Bridge – Fourteen-year-old Nguyen Trung Hieu stares unblinkingly at the music sheet before him and gently rests his fingers on the piano. Then he takes a breath and begins to play, his hands dancing over the ivory keys.

 VietNamNet Bridge – This year’s Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival will take place at eight city venues from Friday to April 13.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Visit Hang Bac Street this week and you'll be immersed in yellow cloth lanterns, colourful flags and white daisy stands.

VietNamNet Bridge – Discussions about wildlife photography and conservation will be held in Ha Noi and HCM City this weekend with the participation of American photographer Gabby Salazar.

VietNamNet Bridge – The three critical issues in the eyes of tourists to Hanoi consist of sanitation, transportation systems and the behavior of some taxi drivers and employees of stores.

VietNamNet Bridge - Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee – Mr. Nguyen The Thao – says that there are nearly 6,000 apartments in the city are unsold.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi’s traffic police officers will begin imposing fines on motorcycle drivers carrying kids without a helmet from April 8.

Vietnam saved 401 MW of power, equivalent to 576 million VND (28,800 USD), by switching off lights during the 2013 Earth Hour, from 8.30pm to 9.30pm on March 23, according to the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN).

At 11:30 pm on March 23, the pipe leading water from the Da River in Hoa Binh province to Hanoi was broke at a point on the Thang Long Avenue. About 70,000 households in the southwest of Hanoi were affected by this incident.

VietNamNet Bridge - There are rumors about the great features of the wine soaked poppy; some people grew opium at home as medical herbs.