Hanoi Capital

(CPV) - According to Hanoi City Department of Tourism, Hanoi welcomed about 640,000 tourists, including 41,000 foreigners, during National Day holiday from September 1-4, up 51 % over the same period last year.

(CPV) - The Hanoi Tourism Gift Festival 2023 will be held in Ha Ba Trung district on October 6-8 to stimulate tourism demand and mark the 69th anniversary of its Liberation Day (October 10, 1954-October 10, 2023).

(CPV) - A ceremony has been organized by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of Hanoi to launch the Data4life contest on finding AI technology to be applied in the business supply chain connectivity.

(CPV) - The Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade officially opened the 2023 Hanoi Supporting Industry Fair at the National Architectural Planning & Construction Exhibition in the capital on August 23.

(CPV) - The Plan No. 211/KH-UBND has been issued by the Hanoi People's Committee on presenting gifts to policy beneficiaries who are revolution contributors and revolutionary establishments on the occasion of the 78th anniversary of the National Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (September 2, 1945 - September 2, 2023).

(CPV) - Over the years, the Association of Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin in Hanoi has mobilized nearly VND230 billion to help and support people affected by Agent Orange and their families.

(CPV) - A delegation of staff, teachers and students from Fukuoka Prefecture on August 9 visited and exchanged with teachers and students of Viet Duc High School within the framework of the 5th cultural and educational exchange program between students in Hanoi and Fukuoka Prefecture (Japan).

(CPV) - On August 7, within the framework of the working trip of the high-ranking delegation of the National Assembly of Vietnam to Indonesia to attend the 44th General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA-44), Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, Deputy Secretary of the Hanoi City Party Committee and Chairman the City People’s Council, together with the Hanoi city delegation, visited and worked with the Jakarta Capital Council (Indonesia).

(CPV) - On August 1, Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Tran Sy Thanh received Asian Development Bank (ADB) Country Director in Vietnam Shantanu Chakraborty on the occasion of his receiving a new term.

(CPV) - On July 31, Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Tran Sy Thanh received a business delegation from US state of California led by Ms. Sheng Thao, Mayor of Oakland City, on his visit to tighten ties between Vietnam and California, as well as promote economic, trade and investment cooperation between the two countries' localities.

(CPV) - On July 9, the Ministry of Public Security and the Hanoi People's Committee held a ceremony to inaugurate the Ho Guom Opera at 40 Hang Bai Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi.

(CPV) - Public bicycles will be put into service in 6 inner districts of the capital of Hanoi in September 2023. People can enjoy the service at a cost from 5,000-10,000 VND (0.21-0.42 USD) for 30 minutes of use.

(CPV) - As many as 175 domestic and foreign businesses attend the International Exhibition of Energy and Environment Technology Hanoi 2023 (Entech Hanoi 2023), which was launched in Hanoi on June 28.

Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Tran Sy Thanh affirmed that the capital government will continue to accompany and support the Aeon Mall Group in its new projects, during his reception for Aeon Mall General Director Nakagawa Tetsuyuki on June 27.

(CPV) - The recent conference to deploy the civilized behavior of tourism and community-based tourism for residents is an activity to guide people to develop community-based tourism, contributing to building Son Tay town into one of Hanoi's key tourist destinations.

(CPV) - Dozens of photos of Hanoi capital on the way to development are on display at an exhibition which opened in Hanoi on June 13.

(CPV) - On June 14, the Thang Long - Hanoi Heritage Conservation Center said that the center will officially launch an online ticket booking system through its website from June 15, in order to create favorable conditions for domestic and foreign tourists who wish to visit and experience the heritage site.

The Hanoi City Department of Culture and Sports has coordinated with the Hanoi Union of Friendship Organisations to launch an annual international painting contest titled “I love Hanoi - City for Peace” to mark the 69th anniversary of Capital Liberation Day (October 10, 1954 - October 10, 2023).

(CPV) - Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem district created a benchmark as the first locality in the city to build a walking space, creating opportunities for residents and visitors to have more nightlife spots. Since then, the walking space Hoan Kiem Lake and its vicinity have become a trademark of Hanoi.

According to data from the travel platform Booking.com, Hanoi is among the top 10 most searched domestic destinations by Vietnamese tourists for the summer of 2023, up 4 places compared to the summer of 2022.

(CPV) - Hanoi implemented a campaign to supplement vitamin A at 1,715 points in four days in early June. The total number of children from 6 to 35 months old who received vitamin A during this campaign was 392,131.

(CPV) - Hanoi City People's Committee has just issued Plan 161/KH-UBND on implementing initiatives to join UNESCO's Creative Cities Network in 2023.

(CPV) – There are 1,350 craft villages in Hanoi while 200 of them are traditional craft villages and many of craft villages are century old with rich cultural and historical values, which is a great potential to develop craft village tourism.

(CPV) - A "food tour map" of Hanoi will be created to help visitors explore specialities of the 1000-year capital in order to further develop culinary tourism into the strength of the tourism sector of the city.

In the first five months of this year, Hanoi reported more than 13,000 newly established enterprises, with a registered capital of VND125,900 billion, according to the City Department of Planning and Investment.

The first Hanoi Technical Innovation Contest was launched by the Hanoi Union of Science and Technology Associations on May 23.

(CPV) - The Hanoi Industrial Products, Machinery, Equipment and Automation Fair in 2023 was organized on May 17 to help businesses introduce their products and strengthen connectivity within the supply chain to raise product quality and competitiveness.

Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Dinh Tien Dung hosted Teresa María Amarelle Boúe, a member of the Council of State of Cuba and Secretary General of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), in the city on May 16.

On May 9, in Hanoi, a cooperation agreement signing ceremony took place between the Hanoi Supporting Industry Association (HANSIBA) and the Association for the Promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province (China).

(CPV) - The index of industrial production (IIP) in April in Hanoi increased by 3.3% over the previous month and by 3.6% over the same period in 2022, according to the Hanoi Statistics Office.