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A “Xuan Que Huong 2012” (Homeland Spring) programme for overseas Vietnamese returning home to welcome the traditional Lunar New Year festival (Tet) will be held at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and Ba Dinh square in Hanoi on January 15. The get together programme, held by the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs (COVA) under [...]
A local company in the southern province of Dong Nai has completed procedures for shipping 20 tonnes of Banh Chung (square glutinous rice cake) and 4 tonnes of Dong leaves to the US and the European Union. It aims to help overseas Vietnamese enjoy the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival which falls in two weeks’ [...]
Local authorities, agencies and organisations in HCM City have been implementing several programmes to ensure that poor and disadvantaged people enjoy the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival. Le Thi Bich Khanh, deputy chairwoman of the Binh Thanh People’s Committee, said her district has made plans to organise Tet entertainment activities to ensure that Tet festivities [...]
It is now the high business season for Tet services: car and motorbike care, money change, home decoration and beauty services. Of course, the high demand has made the services more expensive. High fees for car renting, money change It’s very cold these days, which has pushed up the demand for car renting and dry [...]
The number of overseas Vietnamese coming back to the motherland to enjoy the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday via HCMC is projected to increase substantially over the same period last year, said Tran Hoa Phuong, deputy head of the HCMC Committee for Overseas Vietnamese. Phuong gave no statistics on the number, but said he predicted [...]
A new album featuring songs by 150 famous singers in HCM City will send Tet (Lunar New Year) festival greetings to soldiers stationed on islands across Viet Nam as part of a special cultural programme. Out of the black: Veteran singer Siu Black is among 150 celebrities in HCM City who have lent their voices [...]
It’s not easy to buy Dong Cao fowls for hearty parties nowadays. Most of the fowls available on the market are cross-bred fowls. Therefore, it always takes time and big money to hunt for real Dong Cao fowls. Dong Cao fowl is a precious species of Vietnam, and of course, they are very expensive. The [...]
There will be no significant goods shortages or escalating prices through the holiday season, especially the upcoming Lunar New Year festival (Tet). Many businesses in HCM City have stockpiled Tet goods with the amount increasing by 10-15 percent against last year. As planned, food and foodstuff businesses alone are expected to meet 30-40 percent of [...]
Many kinds of flowers are blossoming at Hanoi’s Nhat Tan village. Young people flock to the village every afternoon to take pictures with flowers. source form: vietnamnet
Many people just learning to cook are often a bit hesitant cooking a large piece of meat. It seems so intimidating! Well, it doesn’t need to be, at all. This boneless pork roast is a great place to begin. All that is necessary to cook this roast is to mix some dried spices with olive [...]