In a short time, several bold robberies of iPad and iPhone happened in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, making people worried. Some robbers equipped themselves with weapons and committed to kill victims.

VietNamNet Bridge – The year’s most-anticipated poetry festival takes place at the Temple of Literature in Ha Noi this weekend, when the 11th National Poetry Day coincides as usual

VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi seems to be more romantic with the emerging hobby of cycling and the return of bicycles on the street.

VietNamNet Bridge - Trees are considered as the lungs of Hanoi, but in the past three years, more than 300 trees were compromised by different ways, such as cutting down branches, dissecting the skins or pouring acid into the tree roots.

On February 16, it was raining but many people took their children to the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology to play folk games. Many foreign tourists also came to learn Vietnamese culture.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Dong Ho traditional painting village has no longer produced folk paintings but has become the largest provider of votive products in the country. 

After Tet, peach branches and trees are piled up along the road, on rubbish trucks or even burned on the road. According to the street sweepers, the clean-up of used peach branches will finish until the end of February.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Temperatures of around 10 degrees Celsius and continuous rain at nights has made Ha Noi a desolate and quiet place in recent weeks.

Every morning, people living around the lake of Nam Dong in Hanoi hear a free symphony of hundreds of birds. Strangers are surprised, thinking that they lost in a bird park in the capital city.

 Hanoi is the land of noodles and dumplings in daunting variety. At least, that is what British visitor David Bobby had concluded local culinary after his three-week trip around the capital city.

The capital's first coffee bar to offer chamber music from around the world, including from Viet Nam, is booked out for every performance on the last Friday of each month.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In Hanoi, it is a truth universally acknowledged that the best pho noodle soup is found in the grimiest restaurants, where the staff are rude, the queues long, and the surroundings spartan at best.

Deciduous baobab trees are sprouting in Hanoi. Adansonia digitata has a wide trunk and produces flowers up to 17cm wide. Nguyen Van Nga, a Hanoian farmer, is proud to say that he is caring for 108 African baobab trees.

VietNamNet Bridge - Existed for many generations, through rain and sunshine, a dozen of village gateways are well preserved in Thuy Khue Street, Tay Ho district, Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Japanese jazz band Soil & Pimp Sessions will join local jazz funk group Nga Tu Mat Dien in a performance in Ha Noi on March 2.

Artist Dao Anh Khanh will dance, sing and perform rock music for special guests at his upcoming show Dao Xuan on February 25 at his house in Ngoc Thuy, Gia Lam, Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Industry and Trade is inviting both professional and amateur filmmakers to join a short film competition to support the Earth Hour 2013 campaign.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Some of South Korea's most popular pop groups will sprinkle some of their stardust in the capital later this month when they come to Ha Noi to perform at a huge show.

VietNamNet Bridge - Let's enjoy the quietest day in the year - the first day of the lunar New Year (February 10) in Hanoi and HCM City through pictures:

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