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Article: Hanoi gears up for its millennium by saving past

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Preservation expert to speak

Hanoi has a millennium birthday coming up. It seems that in 1010, after chasing out the Chinese, King Ly Thai Lo imagined he saw a golden dragon take to the sky, leaping out of a sleepy fishing village.

Good place, thought King Ly, for my new capitol city. He started calling the place Thang Long -- "Soaring Dragon" -- and it became the center of government for the region now known as Vietnam.

Early in the 1800s, the capitol shifted to Hue, and the literal Vietnamese began referring to the former capitol as "the city between the rivers," or Hanoi.

And so, in 2010, Hanoi turns 1000. Despite limited resources, the Vietnamese are getting serious about historic ...

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