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Danang City will host its first ‘Spring Flower Street 2013’ with an investment of VND17 billion by VietArt OOH Company, promising a colorful spring ambiance for the Han River near the city. The festival will take place from 7 p.m. on February 7 to 10 p.m. on February 14. The one-kilometer road from Bach Dang [...]
Ho Chi Minh City plans to organize 700 mobile shops to sell subsidized goods within the City as well as in suburban districts, industrial parks and export processing zones during the coming Tet Lunar New Year holidays. The file photo shows customers choosing eggs produced by egg and chicken producer Ba Huan in a supermarket. The HCMC Department of [...]
Purchasing power usually increases towards year-end, with most firms scrambling to stockpile goods for coming Tet Lunar New Year holidays, but this year the mood remains dull mainly because of the current economic slump. Customers go shopping at BigC supermarket. (Photo: SGGP) According to a survey by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the domestic [...]
Xu xe cake, also known as phu the (husband and wife) cake, is made from bot loc (flour), manioc, pasted mung bean and sliced coconut and is a popular gift on special events like Tet holiday or a wedding day. Many people love the cake for its sticky, sweet and delicious smell. People have to bake the flour to make the thick mixture for [...]
The national flag carrier, Vietnam Airlines, has announced plans to increase the number of its flights to meet the expected rise in demand from domestic passengers during the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival and will run the promotion from January 25 to March 2. Under the plan, it will schedule an extra 1,000 flights, [...]
Businesses in Hanoi are stockpiling around VND6 trillion (US$288 million) worth of good in preparation for the upcoming lunar New Year (Tet) festival, which falls in early February 2013. According to the Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade, retail sales during Tet are forecast to surge 18-20% compared to other months. About a third [...]
Businesses in Ho Chi Minh City are already implementing their plans to meet high consumer demand during the last months of this year and for the Lunar New Year festival (Tet). Shops that have joined the price stabilization programme have increased their budget for stockpiling essential goods to nearly VND6.7 trillion, nearly 1.3 billion more [...]
Air travel during the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday will become more expensive as of today, when domestic airlines go ahead with a planned price hike. A representative of the Civil Aviation Administration of Viet Nam confirmed to the newspaper Nguoi Lao Dong (Labourer) that it had received the proposal of airfare increases from carriers [...]
Businesses in Ho Chi Minh City are already implementing plans to meet the high consumer demand during the last months of the year and for the coming Tet Lunar New Year. The Department of Industry and Trade in HCMC informed on October 14 that despite economic difficulties and low purchasing power, most businesses are preparing [...]
The budget carrier Air Mekong will sell tickets on domestic routes for peak periods of the next New Year and Lunar New Year (Tet) holidays from September 20th. Namely, the airline plans to provide seats on routes between Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi-Con Dao/ Phu Quoc, Ho Chi Minh City-Phu Quoc, Pleiku, Quy Nhon [...]