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Hanoi seems to be warmer with beautiful peach blossoms and kumquat trees.
The Lunar New Year Festival (Tet) is still a month away, but gardeners in Nhat Tan flower village, Hanoi are taking special care of peach blossoms and kumquat trees to meet consumers’ demands during Tet. Tiếp tục đọc “Kumquat trees and peach blossoms beautify Hanoi’s winter” |
docbao,vn 21/12/2017 09:14:00 GMT+7
Tiếp tục đọc “Người Sài Gòn đắp chăn ngủ ngoài đường trong giá lạnh”
There is still one week left before Christmas but the festive atmosphere is hard to avoid with many streets colourfully decorated in the capital city of Hanoi.
 Preparations have been underway at St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Nha Chung Street, Hanoi for two weeks before Christmas. Tiếp tục đọc “Sparkling Hanoi streets welcome Christmas” |
The underground military operation bunker where the Vietnamese government worked during the American War in Thang Long Imperial Citadel has been opened to visitors for the first time.
The Thang Long Heritage Conservation Centre opened the bunker and exhibition about the general command headquarters on the occasion of 45th anniversary of victorious air defence of Hanoi during the American bombing raids of Christmas 1972.
The bunker was built in early 1965 by military engineers. They demolished the two-storey command building to disguise and cover the bunker. The bunker has three rooms, covering 64 square metres. The roof is 1.5 metres higher than the ground and has three layers to protect officers against falling bombs and rockets. It was supposed to be a shelter even against nuclear or chemical weapons.
Decisions issued during the 1972 air battle and supply routes for the south were from the site. The first sirens warning of US air force attacks were approved in the bunker.
After 1975, the bunker was largely abandoned until it was renovated in 2012.
Some photos of the bunker:
 Tiếp tục đọc “Thang Long Citadel bunker opened to the public” |
Young people in Hanoi have been flocking to gardens on the outskirts of the city to witness the beauty of blooming canola flowers.
A canola field is filled with its signature yellow blooms in a Hanoi suburb. Photo: Tuoi Tre Tiếp tục đọc “Hà Nội – blooming yellow with canola flowers”
Stores and building facades in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have been colourfully decorated over the last days, warming up the atmosphere on the threshold of Christmas.
 A colourful Christmas tree decorates the front of Hotel Metropole Hanoi Tiếp tục đọc “Hanoi & HCMC streets sparkling ahead of Christmas” |
Bloomberg news agency has recently unfolded a list of 12 restaurants across the world worthy to try at least once in life. Surprisingly, Cha Ca La Vong restaurant in the Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi took pride in securing a spot in the list.
Cha Ca La Vong in the Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi is recommended as a must-try dish for food lovers
In an article released by Kate Krader and Richard Vines on the news site http://www.bloomberg.com, food connoisseurs are advised to take a tour to the Vietnamese restaurant to taste cha ca (fried fish) with the vibrant and unique flavor of herbs, spices, and chilis. Tiếp tục đọc “Bloomberg touts Cha Ca La Vong as a must-try dish for gourmets”
Flower fields in Hanoi’s Tay Tuu Village have become more beautiful at night with light created by thousands of lamps.
The lamps are aimed to turn night into day to make flowers to bloom in time for the Tet Holiday. Tiếp tục đọc “Hanoi flower village sparkles at night” |
Hanoi plans to construct a super satellite city by 2030, with a total area of over 17,270ha located in two districts of Thach That and Quoc Oai and Son Tay Town.
The super satellite city on paper.— Photo tienphong.vn
The Hoa Lac super satellite city will be some 30km from Hanoi’s centre.
The plan is part of the master plan of Hoa Lac Urban Area, compiled by the municipal People’s Committee and recently submitted to the municipal People’s Council for approval. Tiếp tục đọc “Super satellite city planned in Hanoi”
Farmers in Nhat Tan Ward, Hanoi, are busy with harvesting their daisies, with the promise of lucrative returns.
Some local households said the flower grew a lot in Nhat Tan and were ignored as worthless. Only when people flocked to take photos of the fields, did people in Nhat Tan start cultivating them.
Situated at the foot of the Long Bien Bridge in Ba Dinh District, Hanoi, Long Bien fruit and vegetable market is known as the largest wholesale market in Hanoi and northern Vietnam as a whole.
The 27,000-square-meter market is open daily from 11 p.m. until the small hours of next morning as people rush there to buy and sell fruits and vegetables. The market is where vegetables and fruits are distributed to retailers and street vendors.
The colorful and bustling sight of the night market captures the attention of foreign visitors to the capital.
Many local residents in neighboring provinces also flock to the market to earn a living by providing transport services for traders at the market.
 Tiếp tục đọc “Long Bien – a bustling night fruit market in Hanoi” |
When the water level lowers in Tich River, the residents in Hanoi’s outlying district of Thach That will come out and submerge in the river with long rackets to catch the fish.
Catching fish with long rackets is considered a traditional culture of the people living by the river.
The locals often gather to catch fish in September or October in the lunar calendar.
During this time, the water level of the Tich River lowers greatly while fish in other lakes and rivers must go this way to reach the sea.
The fishermen often go in groups, cheering and attracting viewers to the river banks. The racket is made from bamboo. The handle is four metres long and the net can be 80cm wide. Tiếp tục đọc “Fishing with long rackets on Hanoi’s Tich River”
VietNamNet Bridge – An installation of photos taken by women who sell goods at Bai Da Market on the outskirts of Ha Noi is now on display at the Vietnamese Women’s Museum.
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| Artful: The exhibition displayed photos taken by the women arranged in a space created by photographer Binh Dang and artist Duy Ly. |
The exhibition is the result of a project carried out by the Centre for Studies and Applied Sciences in Gender, Family, Women and Adolescents (CSAGA) during the last two years.
Photos, videos and stories told by the women and things they use everyday, such as baskets and conical hats, are placed together to look like a market and depict the women’s lives with both happiness and sorrow. Tiếp tục đọc “Market women depict their lives through photos”
These special photos provide different views of a dynamic and modern Hanoi as seen from above.
Ba Dinh Square at night. Tiếp tục đọc “Beautiful, modern Hanoi seen from above” |
The air quality measured at different monitoring stations in Hanoi and HCMC has been continuously ‘unhealthy’.
At 8am on October 6, the air quality index (AQI) measured at the US Embassy area in Hanoi was 126, meaning it is ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’. Tiếp tục đọc “Air quality getting worse as legal loopholes still exists”
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