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Paradoxes of Discovery
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03/30/2010 | 4:21 PM
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VGP - The great paradox of Hà Nội’s Old Quarter is that it is utterly contrary to Western expectations and at the same time completely familiar.
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Rules for preservation in Old Quarter
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03/30/2010 | 10:03 AM
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VGP - In order to preserve Hà Nội’s Old Quarter as a historical-cultural heritage, on 4 June 1999, the Hà Nội People’s Committee issued the Temporary Regulations on Management of Construction, Preservation, and Restoration of Hà Nội’s Old Quarter.
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How to preserve the Old Quarter
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03/30/2010 | 8:47 AM
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VGP - With the exception of Hội An in Central Việt Nam, Hà Nội is the only city in the country to have preserved its old quarter.
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Hemp street
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02/03/2010 | 9:07 AM
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Among the streets of the old quarter in Hà Nội, I have a soft sport for Hemp Street. This is quite natural since I was born there, and there too I spent my childhood and a good part of my young manhood. My grandfather, a scholar of the old school who had earned a bachelor’s degree at the triennial examination, had left his native village in Bắc Ninh Province north of the Red River to settle as a practitioner of traditional medicine and a private teacher of classical education.
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Silk street
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02/01/2010 | 10:12 AM
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Silk Street (Phố Hàng Đào) is a fashionable street in the old quarter of the capital city. Literally Phố Hàng Đào means: street where red-dyed fabrics are sold. As early as the 14th-15th centuries, villagers – mostly from Đan Loan (in Hải Dương Province) – settled there, forming the guild of Đại Lợi. At number 90-A stone stele can still be found, noting that in 1706 the edifice was built as a communal house in honor of the tutelary god of the village and patron saint of dyers.