MUSIC & PERFORMANCES

Mass fish deaths have occurred in recent days at a lake in Yen So Park in Hanoi's Hoang Mai District.

Red River, considered a cultural space of Hanoi, is filled with grass and plants, and is polluted and dirty.

The Graphics, Sculpture and Applied Fine Arts Exhibition has opened in Hanoi with more than 100 pieces on show.

Some 300 shelters will be built at public bus stops in Hanoi’s 17 outlying districts and Son Tay town.

Laughing yoga is gradually becoming popular in the world, attracting more people to practice. 

Six men have been prosecuted for bribery in a protection racket that ramped up billions of dong from truck drivers to avoid traffic offences, Hanoi police announced on Sunday.

Nguyen Thu Thuy – a Vietnamese artist famous for community art works, has opened a new ceramic street in Hanoi to commemorate the friendship between Vietnam and international friends.

A man has died after a tree fell onto his motorbike when he was driving on Hanoi's Tran Dang Ninh Road on Friday.

Besides Van Phuc silk village, Bat Trang pottery village in Gia Lam, Hanoi has been designated to become one of signature destinations of the capital city’s trade village tourism development plan.

A first grader at an international school in Hanoi died on Tuesday after being forgotten on a school bus, according to authorities.

Quang Phu Cau village in Ung Hoa district, 35 kilometres from downtown of Hanoi, is famous for its century-old craft of making incense. 

Storm Wipha, the third tropical storm to hit Vietnam this year, brought with it an array of rain, strong winds, and caused flooding in the northeast, north, and central regions of the country on August 2 and 3.

Storm Wipha weakened into a tropical depression during the evening of August 2, causing heavy rains and severe damage to a number of large trees throughout Hanoi.

MUSIC & PERFORMANCES

Sơn Đồng Handicraft Village in Hoài Đức District, 20km west of downtown Hà Nội, has long been the source of some of Việt Nam's finest carved wood worship objects.

“We eat a meal for just VND2,000 (US$0.09) at Tiệm cơm An Phúc (An Phúc Charity Restaurant) on Hanoi’s Giai Phong Road every Saturday afternoon,” said Nguyen Thi Phuong. 

Hanoi is planning to build a real-time digital traffic map system similar to Google Maps within the year, according to the city’s transport department.

With the number of cars and bikes on the rise, Hanoi should accelerate planning for underground parking, experts have said.

Peruvian band Apu Inka have been booked in to play a show in the capital city of Hanoi, with the city’s Youth Theatre to be the venue for the event on August 5.