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Hanoi adds greenery to transport infrastructure to reduce urban heat

Hanoi adds greenery to transport infrastructure to reduce urban heat

Vietnam's capital is stepping up efforts to plant more trees and greenery around transport infrastructure and public spaces to improve the urban landscape, reduce heat and enhance environmental quality.
Vietnam's capital plans 109-story tower along Red River

Vietnam's capital plans 109-story tower along Red River

Hanoi's 100-year vision for its historic heart includes triumphal arch

Hanoi's 100-year vision for its historic heart includes triumphal arch

Hanoi eyes 4 levels of underground space beneath French-built Opera House

Hanoi eyes 4 levels of underground space beneath French-built Opera House

Hanoi is studying a four-level underground complex around the Opera House, combined with pedestrian tunnels to improve connections with Trang Tien Street and nearby cultural and art spaces.
September 8, 2026 | 04:25 pm PT
Hanoi studies razing 1985 city hall, other landmark buildings beside Hoan Kiem Lake

Hanoi studies razing 1985 city hall, other landmark buildings beside Hoan Kiem Lake

Hanoi is studying whether to dismantle its city hall and parts of the Hanoi Post Office as it plans to rebuild the historic core around Hoan Kiem Lake.
September 7, 2026 | 06:53 pm PT
Vietnam's capital wants to set up zones for nightclubs, karaoke bars to open 24 hours a day

Vietnam's capital wants to set up zones for nightclubs, karaoke bars to open 24 hours a day

Hanoi is considering regulated entertainment zones operating beyond midnight or around the clock as it seeks to turn the night-time economy into a major growth engine, contributing about 5% of the capital’s GRDP by 2030.
July 23, 2026 | 07:16 pm PT
Hanoi's 2nd airport added to national plan

Hanoi's 2nd airport added to national plan

Vietnam has officially included a second airport for the capital region in its revised national airport development plan, which has been recently approved by the Ministry of Construction.
July 8, 2026 | 09:52 pm PT
Hanoi makes buses free for a year as it opens Vietnam's first low-emission zone

Hanoi makes buses free for a year as it opens Vietnam's first low-emission zone

Hanoi began implementing a traffic management plan from July 1 to support the first-phase pilot of a low-emission zone (LEZ) within Ring Road 1, aiming to reduce vehicle emissions while promoting public transport and green mobility.
July 1, 2026 | 03:00 pm PT
Hanoi wants $95,000 income and a spot among world's happiest capitals by 2065

Hanoi wants $95,000 income and a spot among world's happiest capitals by 2065

Vietnam's capital has published the longest-horizon blueprint in its history, betting on a cluster of linked cities, a near-1,000-km metro network and first-world wealth.
June 29, 2026 | 05:00 pm PT
Vietnam's richest man Pham Nhat Vuong takes on Hanoi's $49B metro projects

Vietnam's richest man Pham Nhat Vuong takes on Hanoi's $49B metro projects

Hanoi broke ground on five metro lines worth more than VND1.3 quadrillion (US$49 billion) on June 22 and named companies controlled by Vietnam's richest man, Pham Nhat Vuong, to build them by 2030.
June 22, 2026 | 12:50 am PT
Hanoi's construction boom is choking neighborhoods in dust

Hanoi's construction boom is choking neighborhoods in dust

A wave of road and drainage works across Hanoi has become a major source of airborne dust, fouling the air and upending daily life for residents living nearby.
June 12, 2026 | 02:00 am PT
Mountains of rubble rise across Hanoi as city races to build mega-projects

Mountains of rubble rise across Hanoi as city races to build mega-projects

Hanoi's drive to build new bridges, ring roads and drainage systems is generating several thousand tons of construction waste a day, putting great pressure on the city's two main disposal sites.
June 6, 2026 | 03:00 am PT
Hanoi to build underground city reaching 50 meters down

Hanoi to build underground city reaching 50 meters down

Hanoi plans to move parking, shops, transit and utilities underground into one connected network, easing a surface running out of room, under a master plan that treats the underground as a "second city".
May 29, 2026 | 07:00 pm PT
Hanoi races to demolish homes for ring road ahead of June 30 deadline

Hanoi races to demolish homes for ring road ahead of June 30 deadline

Authorities in four Hanoi wards are demolishing homes and paying compensation in a final push to clear the way for Ring Road 2.5, with cleared sites due for handover to contractors by June 30.
May 21, 2026 | 06:46 am PT
Hanoi plans future city with AI, TOD, 1,153 km metro network, smart urban transformation

Hanoi plans future city with AI, TOD, 1,153 km metro network, smart urban transformation

Hanoi's 100-year master plan is set to mold the capital into a "Smart – Green – Multi-polar – Multi-center" city, with artificial intelligence (AI), transit-oriented development (TOD), and a 1,153 km metro system serving as strategic growth pillars.
May 20, 2026 | 08:23 pm PT
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