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Monday, 11 August 2008 16:17 |
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 Imagine a city where the exotic chic of old Asia blends with the dynamic face of new Asia. Where the medieval and modern co-exist.
A city with a blend of Parisian grace and Asian pace, an architectural museum piece evolving in harmony with its history, rather than bulldozing through like many of the region’s capitals. Hanoi is where imagination becomes reality.
A mass of motorbikes swarms through the tangled web of streets that is the Old Quarter, a cauldron of commerce for almost 1000 years and still the best place to check the pulse of this resurgent city. Hawkers in conical hats ply their wares, locals sip coffee and bia hoi (beer) watching life (and plenty of tourists) pass them by.
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Monday, 11 August 2008 06:16 |
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 Hanoi has been inhabited since at least 3000 BC. One of the first known permanent settlements is the Co Loa citadel founded around 200 BC.
Hanoi has had many names throughout history, all of them of Sino-Vietnamese origin. During the Chinese domination of Vietnam, it was known as Tống Bình and later Long Do ( literally "dragon's belly"). In 866, it was turned into a citadel and was named Đại La.
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Monday, 11 August 2008 06:13 |
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 Coffee is such a common drink all over the world that it seems hard to find out any distinction of Hanoi café.
It’s true that in Hanoi, you can see many coffee shops with the homogenous Western styles, but typical Hanoi cafés still have their own distinguishable characteristic, which seems so strange to foreigners but worth giving a try.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 27 March 2010 14:16 |
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 02:29 |
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 Hanoi was home to the first Western-style universities in Indochina, including: Indochina Medical College (1902) - now Hanoi Medical University, Indochina University (1904) - now Hanoi National University, and École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de L'Indochine (1925) - now Hanoi University of Fine Art.
After the Communist Party took control over Hanoi in 1954 with support from the Soviet Union, many new universities were built
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Last Updated on Friday, 26 March 2010 17:00 |
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 23:47 |
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 Hanoi's local cuisine is some of the best in Vietnam, and the finest local dishes are served at small one-dish restaurants, usually just open-air joints at street-side, where you might wonder why there's a line out the door.
To Vietnamese, it's about the food, not the atmosphere.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 27 March 2010 14:33 |
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