An “I love Hanoi” event opened at Ly Thai To Park in Hanoi on October 8 to mark the ASEAN + 3 Youth Festival and the capital’s 1,000th birthday.

Utazo Katsura, a master of the traditional Japanese entertainment Rakugo, will perform in Hanoi at the Dance and Light Music Theatre and Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities on October 19 and 20.

Nearly 50 paintings, photos and poems about the Vietnamese land and people created by French artists to mark the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi were on display at the New Ben Thanh Gallery in Ho Chi Minh City on October 6.

Hanoi held an awards ceremony at the Hanoi Opera House on October 7 for the “Hanoi-your destination” contest.  

A full-dress rehearsal of the art performance to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long - Hanoi was held at My Dinh National Stadium, Hanoi on October 7.

The 2010 Ha Thanh Culinary Festival opened in West Lake Park in Hanoi on October 6 as part of Hanoi’s millennial celebrations and National Tourism Year 2010.

A kite festival began at the My Dinh National Stadium on October 6 with the theme “Hanoi – a peaceful sky” to mark the capital’s millennium birthday.

The ASEAN+3 youth festival and “Peaceful melody” art festival opened on in Hanoi on the evening of October 6 with the participation of 65 youths from 13 countries and 3,000 youths from the capital city.

A ten-day exhibition of gifts, which were presented to the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi, opened on October 6 in Cultural Friendship Palace, in Hanoi.  

An inauguration ceremony for Hanoi Museum was held in Hanoi on October 6 to mark the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi.

A tourism channel on Vietnam will officially be aired on October 9 on a VCTV channel of Vietnam Television.

For the first time, the Asian-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) awarded an official prize to Radio Voice of Vietnam (VOV).

A seminar themed “the traditional and modern features of Vietnam’s urban culture” was held in Russia on October 5 to commemorate the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

The State Museum of Oriental Arts of Russia on October 5 held a seminar focusing on traditional and modern features in Vietnamese urban culture on the occasion of the 1,000 anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi. 

The Netherlands Government on October 5 presented the capital city of Hanoi with a new species of tulip named after Thang Long-Hanoi, as a special gift to mark the city’s 1,000th anniversary.

A statue of legendary hero Thanh Giong (Saint Giong) was inaugurated at Da Chong Mountain in Hanoi’s suburban district of Soc Son on October 5.

The exhibition A Glimpse into Southeast Asia will be held at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology (VME) from October 4, 2010-November 5, 2011.  

The Director of New7Wonders Foundation, Jean-Paul de la Fuente discussed the possibility of Ha Long Bay becoming a new World Wonder of Nature with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism during his visit to Hanoi for the capital city’s 1000th anniversary on October 4.  

The youth troupe Soweto from South Africa will organise music shows in Hanoi and Thai Nguyen on October 6 and 8.  

Hanoi has held its inauguration ceremony for the city’s ceramic mosaic mural and received a Certificate for the largest Ceramic mosaic by the Guinness Book of World Records, on October 5.

The Secretary of the Hanoi City Party Committee, Pham Quang Nghi, unveiled a plate entitled “Project in celebration of Thang Long-Hanoi millennium anniversary” on the wall of the intellectuals’ palace in Hanoi on October 4.

Russian reporter Sergey Aphonin had an article titled “Hanoi in my heart” in October’s first edition of the Russian news agency Itar-Tass’s fortnightly publication, Tassovets, on the 1,000th anniversary of Hanoi.

As many as 42 objects related to Southeast Asian cultures are being displayed at an exhibition that opened in Hanoi on October 4 in the presence of the Swiss, French, Swedish and Indonesian diplomatic corps in Hanoi.

Travel agents from across the country and abroad gathered for a seminar on cultural heritage and craft village development, held in Bao Son Paradise Theme Park, Hanoi, on October 4.

The Hanoi Municipal People’s Committee and Moscow authorities will jointly hold “Moscow Days in Hanoi” from October 8-10 to celebrate Hanoi’s millennial anniversary.

Eighty-four individuals were awarded prizes for a literary contest over Hanoi’ thousand years of civilization by the Communist Ho Chi Minh Youth Union and Hanoi People’s Committee on October 4.

An exhibition displayed more than 500 objects, documents and photos highlighting Vietnam’s national heroes and cultural celebrities at the Vietnam Revolutionary Museum in Hanoi on October 4.

A sapphire turtle made by the DOJI Gold and Gems Group was presented to the Hanoi People's Committee as a gift for the city's millennial anniversary on October 3. 

The Thua Thien-Hue municipal People’s Committee organised a photography exhibition on October 4 to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

Eight Vietnamese artists have been selected for the final round of a painting contest launched by the Denmark-Vietnam Cultural Development and Exchange Fund (CDEF).