Ha Noi will reorganise the system of loudspeakers at the ward level in July, chairman of the city’s People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung said

 VietNamNet Bridge – The online poll on loudspeakers that Ha Noi’s Department of Information and Communication started on January 25 has been temporarily closed since Tuesday afternoon.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Forty-year-old artist Nguyen Ngoc Dan has spent the last decade obsessively drawing and painting Viet Nam's maze of overhead wires, telegraph poles, loud speakers and traffic lights.

Urban dwellers in Viet Nam are coming to realise just how painful it is to live with serious noise pollution, not only from the endless procession of motorbikes and four-wheeled vehicles but also selfish store proprietors