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While entertainment activities in Hanoi during the New Year 2009 are not so different from normal days, residents in HCM City have many choices for their New Year holiday.

Megastar Hanoi.

Hanoi: Where will we go this New Year?

It is really a challenge to find a good place to relax during the New Year holiday. There are too few entertainment centres in the capital city.

Hanoians don’t have the habit of going to night clubs to enjoy music or go to theatres to watch dramas as frequently as Saigonese so it is difficult to find a place to free your mind during a holiday. The chorus “I don’t know where to go, what to play” is repeated again this New Year.

Many Hanoians go to Hoan Kiem Lake to watch public music shows. A small number of them welcome the New Year like Westerners by joining New Year’s Eve parties at luxury hotels such as the Sheraton and Sofitel Metropole. A small group leaves Hanoi to discover tourist sites.

There will be few entertaining activities for Hanoians during the first days of the New Year. The Youth Theatre, the most popular theatre in the capital, has decided to close its doors during the New Year holiday to give its artists a chance to relax. People who planned to go for a drama will have to change their plans.

Watching movies may be the best choice for now. Normally, Megastar combines entertaining activities with film shows during the New Year holiday, but this year it is busy with the construction of two new Megas so it will not organise extra activities.

The National Cinema Centre, meanwhile, may become an attraction because the centre has been upgraded into a complex of cinemas, a game centre, fast food shops and supermarket to follow Vincom Tower.

Home box offices in the capital city will continue screening Christmas movies like Bolt, Transporter 3, Twilight, and Four Christmas. However, two new films will be introduced on January 1, 2009, The Spirit and Australia.

HCM City: Hundreds of flowers bloom

Features of Christmas on HCM City’s streets and shopping malls are becoming less prominent to give space for the New Year’s atmosphere, which is also a time for entertaining activities.

Singers who will participate in the “New Year’s Eve” music show

A free music show named “Longing for Vietnam” will take place in the evening on December 30 at 23/9 Park, featuring famous singers like Dan Truong, Thanh Thao, Phuong Thanh, Nguyen Phi Hung and others.

The last day of the year will get warm with the “New Year’s Eve” show at the Lan Anh Stage. This is a special charity show with Phuong Thanh, Nguyen Phi Hung, My Le, Hoang Le Vy, Luong Bang Quang, Duy Manh, Sy Luan, Van Quang Long, etc. Ticket revenue will be donated to disabled children.

The final round of the Star-Model of New Generation contest, organised by the PL Model Training Company, will be held at the Youth Cultural House on December 30.

Children will have their own play, arranged by Idecaf, entitled “Mermaid’s Daughter” at the Ben Thanh Theatre on December 31.

A drama named “Love World” will be introduced at the 5B Theatre.

Night clubs will also have special music shows.

Bich Hanh – Thanh Chung

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