The combustion of biomass and coal significantly contributes to the total health burden due to the emission of gaseous pollutants and particulate matter. To determine the personal exposure related to beehive coal stove cooking in Hanoi, an assessment study on 120 females in three wards (Tran Hung Dao, Phuc Tan, and Chuong Duong) of Ha Noi city, Viet Nam was conducted. Personal and ambient concentrations of PM2.5 and CO (upwind, nearsource, far-source) were simultaneously measured twice a day at each household by PATS++ equipment developed by Berkeley Air Monitoring group. The concentrations of PM2.5 in the three wards were in the range of 10-186, 12-441, 9-59, 3-271, and 9-260 µg/m3 while those of CO varied from 100-3,000, 300-260,000, 200-29,000, 300-255,000, and 2,000-36,000 µg/m3 , for upwind, near-source, far-source, indirect exposure, and direct exposure samples, respectively. The estimated COHb% for the directly exposed group was higher than the indirectly exposed group in the three wards. Consequently, the directly exposed grou