A new building has been constructed without
authorisation on a protected area of the Huong Pagoda Complex, according
to officials from the Ha Noi Department of Culture.
KOTO will host it annual cycling event – KOTO Dream Ride – to raise
funds to support at-risk and disadvantaged youths through their
non-profit vocational programmes on Sunday.
Various cultural activities are being organised between May 12 and 19 to
commemorate President Ho Chi Minh''s 125th birth anniversary (May 19,
1890) in Nghe An Province.
A cock crows from the garden in the remote Ba Danh
pagoda near Ha Nam City, breaking the silence beside the romantic Day
River. The breeze blows from nearby Ngoc Mountain, driving away the heat
of early summer.
Buddhist bikku (monk) Thich The Tuong has been
working hard to turn his one hectare farm into a bamboo conservatory on
the Son Tra Mountain, which protects over 110 bamboo species.
Sixty photos by local architects and photographers
are on display on the pavement in Ly Thai To Street next to Hoan Kiem
Lake to celebrate Ha Noi''s Liberation Day (October 10, 1954-2014).
