Thailand's capital city of Bangkok has kicked off a project to offer space free of charge for hawkers and street vendors in the heart of the city in a bid to clear cluttered pavements.
The Hoan Kiem District People’s Committee opened a traditional flower market and is hosting an array of activities along the Phung Hung Street mural space to welcome the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday.
Listing the 50 best street foods in Asia, CNN said that Asian street food offers variety and lots of flavor. Visitors to Vietnam cannot miss the opportunity to enjoy the 3 following special dishes.
The Vietnam-Republic of Korea (RoK) Cultural Friendship Street took place on Tran Van Lai street, Nam Tu Liem district, Hanoi, on December 10-11, with a wide range of attractive activities.
A street in Hoa Binh City, the northwestern mountainous province of Hoa Binh, has been named after Madeleine Colani (1866-1943), a French archaeologist who discovered and named the Hoabinhian Culture.
Anyone who passes by Doi Can street in the capital of Hanoi on winter days is taken aback by the beautiful pink colours of silk floss flowers. The plant is a showing specimen with some unusual traits that make it hard to mistake it for any other trees.
Vietnam will likely be among Asia’s fastest growing economies next year, despite a weaker currency and falling foreign reserves, according to a recent article published on the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
The Hanoi Tourism Ao Dai Festival will take place from December 2-4 at the pedestrian street area around Hoan Kiem (Returned Sword) Lake in downtown Hanoi, according to the municipal Department of Tourism.
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on October 30 sent his condolences to President Yoon Suk Yeol of the Republic of Korea and bereaved families of a stampede in Seoul’s Yongsan district.
Phan Dinh Phung Street is known as one of the most romantic roads in Hanoi, with ancient dracontomelum trees along the sidewalks. The road is especially nice in the autumn, when the trees shed leaves.
The Vietnam Railway Authority (VRA) has insisted that it will take a hard line on railway traffic safety violations along Hanoi’s popular "railway café street" sketching across the inner districts of Hoan Kiem, Ba Dinh, Dong Da and Hai Ba Trung in its recent report to the Ministry of Transport (MoT).
The People's Committee of Hoan Kiem district has decided to close the infamous "Train Street" and revoke all the licenses for businesses that violated the safety corridor of the nearby railway.
Barriers and warning signs in both Vietnamese and English have been erected and police officers have been deployed to enforce the closure of the famous train street in downtown Hanoi from September 16.