Aficionados of Hanoi who love and care about Vietnam’s age-old architecture have been enthralled over the last week after hearing of a beautifully-preserved mansion in the capital’s Ngoc Ha Village.

The stair has been a familiar gathering spot of the building’s residents, both the old and the young, after work and school.

Among eight recently recognized intangible cultural heritages by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, two are from Hanoi.

For the first time a public university in Vietnam will offer golf training to its students. This will be a subject that students can choose to practice besides football, swimming, badminton, table tennis, and other sports.

Seven rare sưa (dalbergia tonkinensis) trees were reportedly unrooted and killed recently to provide land for traffic construction works in Hanoi.

The exhibition introduces newest artworks of seven local artists belonging to the millennial generation.

It is expected that Hanoi authorities in June will approve and issue the Red River subdivision planning, which will help the capital city become more spacious and modern.

About 4,000 people who work in industrial zones, restaurants or live in apartment buildings that accommodate many foreigners in Hanoi will be tested for SARS-CoV-2 by March 19.

On the morning of March 8, the first Vietnamese were injected with Covid-19 vaccine at four places: 

From March 8, Hanoi will remove social distancing on means of public transport.

Hanoi has set up a list of 90 industrial establishments that have to be moved out of the inner city.

The use of plastic bags and products in traditional markets and shops continues to plague Hanoi.

Religious establishments, relic sites and tourist attractions in Hanoi will re-open on March 8 with preventive measures being still in place after they were temporarily closed to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mayor of Hanoi capital Chu Ngoc Anh has directed the Hanoi Police to urgently investigate and strictly handle sexual assaults against foreign women in the West Lake area in Tay Ho District.

A 3-year-old girl miraculously survived falling from the 13th-floor balcony of an apartment building in Hanoi, caught by a passer-by.

The third metro train of the Nhon-Hanoi station urban railway project has arrived at Hai Phong Port in the northern city of Hai Phong, according to the Hanoi Urban Railway Management Board (MRB).

Late-February to early-March is the best time of year to observe the vibrant wildflower of pear in some streets in the capital city.

On February 19, Hanoi's Party Secretary Vuong Dinh Hue and Hanoi Chairman Chu Ngoc Anh went to the fields with farmers in Di Mau commune in Thach That district to open the spring crop.

The capital city of Hanoi has ordered the closure of streetside stalls, monuments, temples and pagodas from February 16 to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

In the flow of people returning to Hanoi after the 7-day lunar New Year holiday (Tet), there were kids sitting behind their mothers on motorbikes, with countryside specialties tied behind the vehicles.