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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 [...]
With my fifth Tet in Hanoi approaching in the realms of fantasy about the Year of the Dragon, I think back to my first Tet here in 2008 that ushered in the Year of the Rat. At that time, I had only been in Vietnam for about three months so I had no idea what [...]
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 [...]