Published:  00:00 Wednesday - September 30, 2009

Nearly 80 paintings of memories relating to the 100-year-old Long Bien Bridge were put up for auction in the Melia Hotel, Hanoi, on Sept. 28 to raise funds for Agent Orange victims.

All of the paintings will be then exhibited during the two day cultural festival on Long Bien Bridge on Oct. 10 and 11.

The organizers said they had received more than 100 paintings from nearly 100 painters, for the Long Bien Bridge Memorial festival, which celebrates the 55th anniversary of the capital city’s liberation, on Oct. 10, and the 999th birthday of Thang Long-Hanoi.