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Around 310,000 foreign tourists visited Ho Chi Minh City in Jan. 2012, the same number as last year, and about 60,000 overseas Vietnamese entered the country through Tan Son Nhat airport in HCMC during the same period, according to the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism. During the Tet Lunar New Year holidays, approximately 80,000 [...]
Security and social order were maintained during the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival and the number of traffic accidents, injuries and fatalities decreased. This information was released on February 4 in a report presented at the Government’s monthly meeting to review January, presided over by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. According to the report, organizations [...]
A charity musical fundraiser was held by the Red Cross in Ho Chi Minh City on January 7, aiming to help the poor have a warm and happy Tet holiday. The VND11.8 billion donated by individuals, organizations and businesses at the programme will be sent to poor people, Agent Orange victims, orphans and disabled people [...]
Hundreds of children from poor and policy beneficiary families in central localities have been presented with gifts on the occasion of the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet). The Military Joint-Stock Commercial Bank (MB) in association with the Children Support Fund recently visited and presented 454 Tet gifts to children of poor and policy beneficiary families [...]
“Candies without registered-names, expiration dates or information of ingredients spread all over shops in my hometown whenever Tet (Lunar New Year) approaches,” Tong Minh Ha, a resident of the suburban Chuong My District said. Ha said that wholesalers in rural areas prefer to buy candies with unknown origins as their prices were cheaper despite knowing [...]
Legend Hotel Saigon will be well-decorated for the Tet (Lunar New Year) on January 23, adorned with red lanterns, miniature kumquat bushes, ochna bonsai, and peach blossoms. On January 23 there will be a lion dance in the lobby from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., followed by ceremonial offerings to Heaven, Earth, deities, and ancestors. [...]
The annual Nguyen Hue Flower Street display during this year’s Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday will be once again accompanied by three book streets in Ho Chi Minh City from January 20-26. The event, which aims to revive the habit of reading books, will be launched in three downtown locations: Nguyen Hue Boulevard, Mac Thi Buoi Street [...]
National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung and a working delegation paid a Tet visit to the Mong ethnic group in Long Luong commune, Moc Chau district in northern Son La province on January 6. He attended a festival Pa Kha mountain village and shared the holiday, wishing the villagers a happy New Year and good [...]
Hundreds of overseas Vietnamese (OV) and staff of Vietnamese representative offices in Hong Kong and Macao gathered to celebrate the traditional Lunar New Year festival (Tet) on January 6. The Vietnamese Consul General to the two Chinese special administrative regions, Nguyen Thi Nha, said most OV people are aware of preserving their traditions and culture [...]
A painting exhibition of painter Van Duong Thanh, titled “Lunar New Year Festival 2012 and Bronze Drums”, will be held in Hanoi on January 12th, with the participation of more than 10 ambassadors in Vietnam. The exhibition will showcase 20 new lacquer, oil, and acrylic paintings by Van Duong Thanh about bronze drums and Hanoi. [...]