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Sóc Sơn Temple Festival
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03/14/2010 | 11:17 AM
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VGP - The Sóc Sơn Temple is situated in Vệ Linh Village, Phù Linh Commune which now belongs to Sóc Sơn, a suburban district of Hà Nội. The temple is dedicated to Dóng God that is Phù Đổng Thiên Vương.
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Đống Đa Festival
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02/18/2010 | 10:22 AM
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VGP - On the 5th of every Lunar New Year, while the last firecrackers still resound in Hà Nội, many of its inhabitants rush to its Southeastern part, going past the Ô Chợ Dừa roundabout and striding along Nguyễn Lương Bằng Street down to Đống Đa Hill in order to take part in the Đống Đa Festival, which celebrates a historic victory, over the Qing invaders in 1789.
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Tết in old Hà Nội
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02/08/2010 | 11:26 AM
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Hoàng Đạo Thúy, the father of the boy-scout movement in Việt Nam and the Signal Corps of the Việt Nam People’s Army, died at the ripe old age of 97. He knew Hà Nội like the back of his hand. Here is how he briefly evokes Tết in the capital city early in this century, at a time when the newly-established colonial administration had only blurred the traditions of this highly popular festival with an archaic charm.