Despite the coronavirus pandemic and lengthy lockdowns putting a huge strain on access to many of the capital’s key cultural sites, the use of advanced online technologies has enabled many to flourish.

Given that the COVID-19 vaccination for children goes on at an expected pace, high school students in Hanoi will be allowed to return to school in December.

The economy comprises many interwoven chains, and one province applying extreme measures can create a deadlock in the entire region and the country.

Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban rail line in Hanoi, the first metro project to be completed and running in Vietnam, officially began commercial operations on November 21, to a lesser ridership than previous days.

The Hanoi property market is once again seeing a wave of increased land prices in suburban areas, thanks to rumours of some districts being developed under the model of "city within a city".

A series of activities have been launched to honour and promote the cultural heritage of Thang Long-Ha Noi, on the occasion of the Vietnam Cultural Heritage Day (November 23).

The Hanoi City government has lifted quarantine requirement for people coming from high-risk areas, just two days after it was imposed and sparked controversy.

Hanoi has changed its view about the treatment of positive Covid cases and the home quarantine of their close contacts.

Hanoi has set up five centres to quarantine and treat COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms in five districts with a total of 1,150 beds from Wednesday (November 17).

On Wednesday morning, Hanoi was engulfed in drizzle and fog. The air quality index registered at a bad level.

The capital is set to allow F0 and F1 cases to quarantine at home in an effort to ease pressure placed on concentrated isolation facilities and reduce the risk of cross-infection occurring at concentrated quarantine centres.

A lack of green spaces in Hanoi has been a concern of inhabitants for years. Unfortunately, hundreds of hectares of land in Hanoi that was planned for parks or lakes have been abandoned or misused for decades. 

Transport experts are still sceptical about how effective a plan to collect toll fees from cars entering Hanoi’s downtown areas will be at reducing traffic congestion and pollution in the city.

Authorities in Hanoi have ordered the establishment of 508 mobile medical units, including 20 units to serve industrial parks and processing zones, after a sharp rise in cases in the capital city. 

Nearly 792,000 children aging from 12-17 years old in Hanoi are expected to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the fourth quarter of 2021 and first quarter of 2022.

From early Saturday morning, crowds gathered at Cat Linh Metro Terminal waiting patiently to get the chance to experience first-hand the much-awaited official operations of Vietnam's first metro line.

Consecutively from November 3 to the present, the capital has recorded more than 100 new local COVID-19 cases each day.

A photo and video contest has been launched by the Vietnam News Agency's Thể Thao & Văn Hóa (Culture & Sports) daily to give photographers a chance to capture the beauty of Hanoi. 

Hanoi reported 93 positive cases of COVID-19 including 54 community cases from 6pm on Friday to 6pm on Saturday.

For the second time, the Goethe-Institut Hanoi presents Gute Aussichten - New German Photography 2021 in cooperation with the Mat ca Photography Space.