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VietNamNet Bridge - Half a month after the fire that killed six people in Fuse Bar, Hanoi's authorities have closed Zone 9, the famous entertainment address of Hanoi’s youth and expats. The appeal to the youth of Zone 9 Bar blaze kills at least six people in Ha Noi's Zone 9 “Arts District” in Hanoi, is it possible? Hanoi Chairman Nguyen The Thao has sent dispatches to Hai Ba Trung District People's Committee and the Binh An Investment Company on the close of Zone 9, at 9A Tran Thanh Tong. Hanoi's leaders also asked the city police to urgently investigate and strictly handle the incident as an example to organizations and individuals in the city in fire prevention. According to Binh An Company, the owner of Zone 9, after the Pharmaceutical Company No. 2 relocated to the suburbs, the Hanoi People's Committee has assigned Binh An to build a complex of offices and commercial centers here. While waiting for legal procedures to implement the project, Binh An leased the … [Read more...] about Zone 9 is closed after fatal fire

VietNamNet Bridge – A council will be set up to assess the total damage to the Muong Cultural Space Museum in Hoa Binh Province, after a fire started by a group of tourists engulfed the hundred-year old property. The last Muong mandarin’s house burned by tourists Playing with fire: A house on stilts owned by the Muong ethnic people which accommodates gongs and a library in the Muong Cultural Space Museum. — Photo courtesy of the museum Lang House, attached to the Muong ethnic minority people, caught fire after a group of tourists built a fire inside the house to cook maize, without asking for permission. The stilt house's walls and roofs and over 200 exhibits were burnt, leaving behind only timber poles and floor. The council will attempt to establish the direct involvement with input from experts including Dr Nguyen Van Huy, former director of Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology, and historian Duong Trung Quoc, said the museum's director Vu Duc Hieu in a press … [Read more...] about Board to inspect museum fire loss

Phi Anh and foreign customers in his painting workshop Using the very fast movements of a hot fire-brush with a copper point on a white panel for a few minutes, the painters Land and Lap can create lively and unique painting masterpieces. Paintings created under the fire-brush are a typical art of the mountainous city of Dalat. However, the number of capable painters such as painters Lan, painter Lap are becoming very rare. These painters are now quite old and many can no longer paint. Painter Nguyen Phi Anh seems to be the only one left who is faithful to this unique style of painting. We find a way to the house located at 14/2 Tran Hung Dao Street, where artist Phi Anh daily creates paintings according to order. In a talk at his small workshop, Phi Anh confided, "I draw paintings with my own innate talent. Actually, I have never attended any drawing classes". When the country was reunified, Phi Anh started drawing black and white portraits. And he used to own a drawing … [Read more...] about Drawing with fire

VietNamNet Bridge – Propaganda posters with the themes: Vietnam definitely wins, Hanoi is determined to follow Uncle Ho’s words, nothing is more precious than independence and freedom bring us back to a time of smoke and fire.Some 40 of 1,000 propaganda posters with great historical value in the war of resistance against America are on display at the 4th exhibition of painter Truong Sinh in Hanoi. In Vietnam, propaganda posters are attached to the struggle for national liberation. They played an important role in serving the task of political propaganda, revolutionary struggle and mass mobilization associated with the revolution. They also become a strong spiritual weapon in the process of struggling for national independence. After the country’s reunification, propaganda posters contributed to urge all people to rebuild the country and protect the achievements of the revolution. From these results, propaganda posters passed the "political task" to become an … [Read more...] about Looking back at a time of smoke and fire

Phan Van Toai, a craftsman in Phu Lang ceramics village in the northern province of Bac Ninh, has been busier than usual during the weekends after launching a new service to introduce craft making to tourists at his own ceramic workshop. Turning up the heat: Villager Dang Thi Linh cuts a cubic of clay at a ceramic workshop in Phu Lang Village. — VNS Photos Hoai Nam Toai, 28, is the fifth generation of his family to make ceramics in the village, 60km east of Ha Noi's centre. It takes about an hour by bus to get to the village from downtown. Phu Lang has begun welcoming tourists on day trips from the capital over the past two years and has been included on the tourism map as the third most famous ceramic village in the north. The village, which was settled as a craft centre in the Hong (Red) River Delta in the 14th century, offers travellers the opportunity to explore a typical rural handicraft lifestyle in the northern delta. "I've been working in the workshop since I was … [Read more...] about Ceramics village fires up tourism