As the New Year and Lunar New Year approach, the streets of Hanoi are adorned with vibrant decorations, including flags, flowers, and festive slogans, to celebrate the arrival of 2025 and the country’s major holidays.

With the New Year just around the corner, let The Hanoi Times take you on a tour of the most exciting celebrations taking place in Hanoi!

Once a year, Hanoi's faithful gather to celebrate Christmas and pray for a peaceful year ahead.

The Youth Union of Hanoi has made the detailed plans on voluntary activities to assist communities across the city and help ensure social security in 2016.

The Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade held a meeting to announce the implementation of the “Act for consumer rights 2016” programme on January 26.

With two weeks remaining until the Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival, Nhat Tan village on the edge of Hanoi`s West Lake is blooming with a variety of flora, especially peach flowers.

Mai Dich park with a lake inside will not provide more public parks and playgrounds, but also address demand for green space in Hanoi’s Cau Giay and Nam Tu Liem districts

Hanoi will conduct the investigation, statistic, inventory and classification of traditional craft villages in the city into eight groups to overcome and improve pollution.

According to the recent happiness index of MasterCard – a global leading company in payment, Hanoi ranked the fourth with 71 points behind India’s Bangalore (73.2 points), Indonesia`s Jakarta (72.1 points), and India’s New Delhi (71.7 points).

Gardeners in Nhat Tan flower village on the edge of Hanoi`s West Lake are busier these days tending to a variety of flowers, particular peach blossoms, so that they can bloom on time for the Lunar New Year Tet holiday.

When winter arrives in Hanoi, fried sweet potato and banana cakes will become favorite foods of Hanoians and visitors. Stalls selling hot potato and banana cakes have begun appearing along the streets in the capital.

Authorities have been exerting more efforts and implementing various solutions, especially in energy efficiency, to turn the capital city of Hanoi into a greener city.

A Food Week showcasing the specialties typical of three regions in Vietnam will open at Vinhomes Riverside, Long Bien district, Hanoi, from November 7-15.

As always there’s a wide choice of moon cakes available in Hanoi for the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival.

Lovers of Hanoi have been called upon to help preserve the city`s charming beauty and cultural values with simple daily gestures.

The centre of Hanoi around Hoan Kiem Lake has been cited by SkyScanner as one of the top 15 hippest places in Southeast Asia in a recent post on its website.

Cuu village in Van Tu commune, in Hanoi’s outlying district of Phu Xuyen boasts of many old French-style villas which were built between 1920-1945. House owners were villagers who worked as tailors for French residents in that period. Let’s take a tour around the village:

The People`s Committee of Hanoi has kicked off a campaign to make the capital greener, cleaner and more beautiful and control traffic chaos.

One of the most highly anticipated events of the season has begun in Hanoi – the Hoa Sua or “milk flower” is here.

After 60 years of national liberation and with many ups and downs, Hanoi has transformed into a major metropolitan area of the region and the world and has been honoured as the city for peace, said Chairman of the Municipal People’s Committee Nguyen The Thao.

A plan is being studied to establish a one-stop food street for vendors in the Old Quarter area of Ha Noi.

The village has been considered as one of the largest flower village selling fresh flowers in Hanoi.

​ Who has ever come to Hanoi should go for a night walk to learn more about the streets and the people here. Because the city has shimmering, just a quiet, peaceful atmostphere at night.