On the evening of March 26, the People's Committee of Hue City held the launching ceremony of Hai Ba Trung Walking Street, located on Hai Ba Trung Street, Vinh Ninh Ward, Hue City.

On the evening of March 24, Hai Ba Trung Pedestrian Street at Vinh Ninh ward, Hue city, officially came into operation, attracting the attention of people and tourists. Its operation time is from 18h00 to 24h00 every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

In order to create a connection and to balance the nightlife and entertainment activities in Hue city and to form an attractive nightlife tourism product to serve locals and tourists, Hue will soon open a pedestrian street at Hai Ba Trung Street in Vinh Ninh Ward. Around this event, Thua Thien Hue Weekly had a talk with Mr. Tran Song, Vice Chairman of Hue City People's Committee.

With 143 households living in facade areas and alleys, 75 of which are businesses and individual business households, and nearly 900 cars and motorbikes, Hue City People's Committee is implementing the plans to separate traffic flow, arrange the parking and develop business sidewalk rental in Hai Ba Trung Pedestrian Street.

"This (digitizing photos) helps the descendants not have to spend time imagining how their ancestors looked like," explained Trung. He said that digitizing photos could be roughly like photoshopping the photos after capturing them. The only difference is that users have to buy separated software and pay annually.

On November 14, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Van Phuong made a field trip to inspect the implementation of the project of embellishing the banks of the Huong River in combination with the wharf located along Bui Thi Xuan Park, and the project of Hai Ba Trung pedestrian street (Hue City). Accompanying him was Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Hoang Hai Minh.

“We will propose to the provincial authorities to consider and coordinate with the French Embassy to Vietnam to agree on a draft of cooperation agreement with the French School of the Far East (EFEO) to exchange and cooperate in data searching and managing, establishing an electronic database and data on heritage digitization, that add more sources of original documents to Hue heritage,” shared Mr. Hoang Viet Trung, Director of Hue Monuments Conservation Center (HMCC) after returning from his business trip to France.

After nearly two months of approving the project of embellishing Hai Ba Trung Street, the People's Committee of Hue City and the construction units have commenced the construction of the project, aiming to put Hai Ba Trung pedestrian street into operation on the occasion of the New Year 2023.

Continuing the business trip in France, the delegation of Thua Thien Hue province led by Mr. Hoang Viet Trung - Director of the Center for Conservation of Hue Monuments had a visit to the exhibition “The Art of Exile: Emperor Ham Nghi”.

From July 1 to 14, The Danish Film Weeks will take place at CineStar Cinema in Hue (at 25 Hai Ba Trung Street, Vinh Ninh Ward, Hue City).