VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi People's Committee will train 500 public servants on a trial basis to work within communes and wards.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi will open 65 flower markets during the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival, the municipal People's Committee has announced.

VietNamNet Bridge – 1,500 rare plants have been put on display at the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long - Hanoi.

Domestic software firms bemoan skewed tax breaks; No respite for Ha Noi real estate; Military Bank leads in profitability; New fund will help firms to issue affordable bonds; Steel giant hurries projects; Auto market recovers before Tet

 VietNamNet Bridge – My father's Australian friend recently sent him an email to inform him that he would be visiting Viet Nam in early March, and expressed a desire to tour a craft village outside Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet – This is a result of a survey on more than 1,400 foreign tourists to the capital city, carried out by the Hanoi department of culture, sport and tourism with the goal of researching and perfecting statistical methods

VietNamNet Bridge – They have unique architecture and there are built at billions dong. And of course, they belong to a wealthy family, or a “tycoon.”

 Hanoi’s Ly Thai To Square will host an official programme on February 3 entitled “Xuan Que Huong 2013” (Homeland Spring)—a celebration for Vietnamese expatriates returning home to mark the Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival.

From 6 to 7 am every day, at the Ly Thai To monument near the Hoan Kiem Lake, dozens of middle-aged and older women perform the Gangnam Style dance as a way of enhancing health. Some of them are nearly 80 years old.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi began operating an incinerator, capable of burning 48 tonnes of industrial waste a day, in Nam Son waste treatment complex in Soc Son outlying district on January 14.

Updated information about cultural events in big cities of Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi officials have asked relevant bodies to decorate the streets by Khue Van Cac symbols during the lunar New Year (Tet holiday).

VietNamNet Bridge - A multidimensional Hanoi is portrayed by 13 artists in a variety of styles and materials in the ongoing exhibition at Art Talk Café, 12 Quan Su, Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi People's Committee found no cases of corruption in civil service hiring in the past two years, according to a report published on Friday, Jan 11.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A Ha Noi's People's Committee decision that goes into effect next week aims to minimise conflicts between apartment owners and investors, especially in high-rise buildings.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The vaccine Quinvaxem "5 in 1" has been removed from circulation in many areas in Ha Noi, Deputy Director of the municipal Preventive Medicine Centre Nguyen Nhat Cam said on Monday.

VietNamNet Bridge – On the evening of January 6, the Hanoi Youth Union organized the "Celebrate success - Welcome the New Year 2013" and awarded the "outstanding young faces of the capital."

VietNamNet Bridge – On January 8, the Hanoi Party Committee held the vote of confidence on 20 key leaders of the city. The result is "no one is being judged too weak."

 Temperatures of around 10 Celsius degrees have been associated with a higher-than-usual number of elderly people and children requiring treatment for respiratory and cardiovascular-related diseases in recent days, doctors say.

Confirming that the Hanoi Party Committee considers one of its priorities in civil servant recruitment is preventing corruption, but Hanoi Party Secretary Pham Quang Nghi admitted that there are still “gaps.”