Vietnamese people are bustling about preparing for the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, the country’s biggest in the year, while flower and bonsai markets add glowing, spring colours to the scene.
(VOV) -The Southernmost province of Ca Mau earned nearly US$60 million from aquatic exports in January, a year-on-year increase of 16 percent which is the highest record in the last five years.
In the days leading up to the Lunar New Year, President Truong Tan Sang on February 4 visited Information Brigade 205, a unit awarded with the title ‘Hero of the People’s Armed Forces’.
The week-long trial of 22 people charged with plotting to overthrow the people’s administration concluded on February 4 at the People’s Court of central Phu Yen province.
As the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival is days to come, the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs (SCOVA) has greeted overseas Vietnamese returning home for the holiday in an annual programme in Hanoi.
Hanoi’s export turnover totalled US$801 million in January, which represented a year-on-year increase of 21.1 percent.
The Government is working to ensure that even disadvantaged people can celebrate the Lunar New Year festival (Tet) pleasantly to welcome a prosperous year.
For most Vietnamese, Tet (Lunar New Year festival) has actually begun with the “Ong Cong - Ong Tao” (Land Genie and Kitchen Gods) ceremony on the 23rd of the last month of the lunar year, which falls on February 3 this year.
Copies of four old maps testifying to Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes in the East Sea were on display at many public places in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa on February 2.
Nguyen Thi Hau from Hanoi won the gold medal in the women's epee event at the ongoing Southeast Asian Fencing Federation Cadets and Juniors Championships in Brunei on January 31.