Hue has started the season of damp and chilly days. If you come to Hue in this season, make sure that you won’t let your time “shrink” in sadness. Instead, treat yourself with familiar, simple, and delicious dishes with local people!

That was our dreamlike headline - nearly 20 years ago when we first learned about Amsterdam, a famous city in the Netherlands with the highest rate of cyclists globally. But now, the dream of Hue having 1 million bicycles – even if just a symbolic number – is gradually becoming a reality.

This message was conveyed to readers by Hoang Thi Tho, the author, at the launch of her two books titled “Ngay mai nho Hue ve tham Hue” (“Tomorrow, when you miss Hue, then come and visit Hue”) and “Xin di tu tho au” (“Travelling from the childhood”) (Thuan Hoa Publishing House), on the morning of June 23 at the headquarters of Thua Thien Hue Journalists Association (22B Le Loi Street, Hue City).

Lunar New Year 2024 is the opening of the Year of the Dragon. Wishes for the new year are often referred to as a dream. If there is a dream for Hue in the year of the Dragon, it can be called “Hue’s Dragon Dream"!

“If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together” - a saying by billionaire Warren Buffett - is the motivation for Thua Thien Hue to develop health tourism products. It still takes a long time for this type of tourism to become special, lucrative, and boost healthcare into an important economic sector of the local, but once many hands come together to connect and move forward, Thua Thien Hue will go a long way.

On the morning of December 20, the Department of Construction coordinated with the International Finance Corporation (IFC-WB) to hold a forum to promote green building development in Hue. Attending the event was the Deputy Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee Hoang Hai Minh.

Although just being around 12km away from Hue city center, Thuan An Beach is quite crowed. Therefore, if you go a little further with only a few tens of kilometers, you can get “your own beach”.

I am sure that Hue will be a very different city if you come to Hue these days. There won’t be tranquil, sorrow days anymore. Hue now is not a city of “getting to bed early” like previous.

Short video clips recorded by a tourist visiting Hue have gone viral in recent days. Their main contents are about the people of the Imperial Citadel, and according to this person, if he was asked about the most beautiful thing about Hue, the answer would certainly be its “people”.

Not many people have noticed a special thing in this winter in Hue: For the first time ever, in the rainfall updates of the Provincial Commanding Committee for Disaster Prevention and Search & Rescue appears a very strange place, which is Quan Tuong Dai (the Imperial Observatory) in Hue Imperial City. The three words “Quan Tuong Dai” being read out on a rainy day sounds melancholy as if old friends saw each other once again after such a long time.