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On the first days of Tet (the traditional lunar New Year’s festival), Hanoians have a chance to enjoy Bai Choi singing – a special music genre of people in Tay Son, Binh Dinh Province. Bai Choi singing is one of the folk arts and contests in the central region, from Quang Binh to Binh [...]
Tet is all about starting out the new year correctly. That means cleaning and decorating your house, paying off your debts, paying respects to your family and friends and most importantly — eating well. In Vietnamese, you can say “an Tet” to literally denote eating Tet. Tet Nguyen Dan (translated as the “festival (or feast) [...]
Banh ro (glutinous rice cake filled with green bean paste), a specialty in the central province of Quang Nam, is often eaten at funerals or during the Tet holidays. To make banh ro, you need to prepare two main ingredients, namely sticky rice and green beans, and of course banana leaves to wrap the cakes. [...]
Moc Chau district in Son La province is famous for “forest peach flowers”. This year, they have blossomed later than usual, long after the Lunar New Year holiday (Tet). Pink peach flowers cover the whole mountainous areas Local people say this is the most beautiful season in 10 years [...]
Many companies are struggling to liquidate stocks that piled up as a result of the unusually low demand during Tet this year, with even the big discounts many have been offering to encourage inflation-weary shoppers proving ineffective. Dao Duy Kha, vice general director of Vietnam Plastic Corporation, said demand for plastic products is very low, causing his [...]
While some foreigners left Vietnam for romantic beaches in Thailand or Bali during the lunar New Year holiday, many stayed in the country to welcome the traditional Tet. Mark Conroy, representative of East Meet West in Da Nang. Mark Conroy, 65, representative of East Meet West in the central city of Da Nang, said that [...]
Ethnic minority people in the central province of Nghe An are enjoying their long holiday after Tet at the colourful spring markets. From the 3rd until the 15th of the first lunar month, markets in the mountainous district of Tuong Duong are all luring lots of local ethnic people, who are mostly the Mong and [...]
Hue people usually offer hand-made bamboo flowers in their new year prayers for health and happiness. Handmade bamboo flowers at An Cuu Market Every year, when Tet comes, small traders in Hue busily craft bamboo flowers for the new year markets. Nguyen Thi Hanh, a handicraft bamboo flower trader at An Cuu Market said, “The [...]
Many trade union officers blamed non-subsistence wages for most workers’ industrial actions and some National Assembly delegates in Ho Chi Minh City proposed that civil servants be given one more Tet day-off. At a seminar held yesterday by the National Assembly’s Law Committee, many delegates who are trade union leaders and labor managers said most [...]
The “drop-out” season has begun in many areas. Students don’t return to school after Tet, while teachers spend time walking long distances to meet students to persuade them to go back to school. Come and leave “Our school has resumed operation after the Tet holiday. The teachers have been trying to persuade students to return [...]