The traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) is the biggest and oldest festival in Vietnam, bringing its people together to celebrate the sacred and meaningful annual event.

Nguyen Hue flower street was opened in Ho Chi Minh City on January 25 in celebration of the traditional Lunar New Year 2017.

VOV.VN - Hanoians and visitors will be treated to a variety of colorful entertaining programs during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday (Tet).

VOV.VN -Hollywood actors Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson, stars of the much-anticipated movie Kong: Skull Island, have released a video extending best wishes to Vietnamese fans on the occasion of the TET (Lunar New Year).

Whenever the Lunar New Year (Tet) comes, normally from the 23rd of the last month of the lunar year to the New Year eve, Vietnamese families visit their ancestors’ tombs and clean gravesites.

"Banh Chung" (square glutinous rice cake) is a traditional cake of Vietnamese people during Tet (Lunar New Year) holidays.

Like most other nations in Asia, Vietnamese people welcome the New Year according to the lunar calendar, and Tet Nguyen Dan (the lunar New Year Day) has long become the biggest festival of the nation.

The Bul Rice Festival (Celebration of New Rice) is a long-standing festival held by the Jrai ethnic group in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai each spring.

VOV.VN-This year the Asian squad at Miss Universe 2016/17 is powerful. Here are the five contestants whom the experts at The Great Pageant Community consider as the best contestants from Asia.

VOV.VN - Le Hang has shared a peek at her incredibly patriotic get-up for the national costume portion of the Miss Universe 2016 competition.

As a decades-long Vietnamese tradition, the calligraphy markets in Ho Chi Minh City have attracted locals and tourists looking for artworks that will bring them happiness, success, wealth and health.

VOV.VN - The 85 Miss Universe candidates have walked the runway wearing the colours of the Philippine flag – blue, red and white – at the Miss Universe 2016 Charity Gala and National Gift Auction event at the Conrad Hotel in Manila. 

VOV.VN - The new year tree (cây nêu) is part of Vietnamese custom for which a bamboo pole serves as the tree and is decorated with bells to mark the way for the spirits of ancestors to come back from the other world to enjoy TET with the living. 

VOV.VN - Many rare and special ornamental plants are on display and sale at the biggest spring fair in the country that has opened at the Tao Dan Park in Ho Chi Minh City.

Singer Son Tung M-TP is the sole Vietnamese representative in the I-Magazine Fashion Face Award for Asian Male 2016.

VOV.VN - Some photos of Nguyen Hue Flower Street 2017 in Ho Chi Minh City before its opening on January 25:

A Khen (panpipe) Festival will open for the first time from January 30 to February 12 in Sapa, Lao Cai province.

The Vietnam Poetry Day 2017, the 15th edition, will be held in Hanoi on February 11 or the 15th day of the first lunar month of the New Year (Nguyen Tieu festival), with a special space designed for children’s poet clubs.

VOV.VN -Vietnamese representative Le Hang is calling on fans to vote for her to advance into the top 12 at the ongoing 2016 Miss Universe pageant.

VOV.VN -The annual Spring Flower Festival is now underway at the Front Beach Park in Vung Tau Province.

Cao Ba Hung, an 18-year-old boy, was announced as winner of the reality talent show Sing My Song on January 22 night.

VOV.VN -Vietnamese pop sensation Son Tung M-TP has been listed among top 55 Fashion Face Award Year 2016 by I-Magazine.

VOV.VN - A broad array of activities regarding Tet fair, games and calligraphy will take place on January 28-February 6 as part of the Asian colour festival at Asia Park in the central city of Danang.

The Khai Nguyen Pagoda in Hanoi’s suburban town of Son Tay will host a Buddhism spring festival from February 4-7 (the 8th-11th of the first lunar month).

The second week-long Hoi An International Food Festival will take place from March 20 with the participation of 12 international chefs showcasing their countries’ culinary specialties made with herbs and ingredients from Hoi An.

VOV.VN - More than 300 books and 100 newspapers and magazines featuring Vietnam’s socio-economic development and 30 parallel sentences are showcased at the Spring press festival that opened in northern Ha Nam province on January 23.

VOV.VN - Nguyen Thi Loan, who finished in the top 20 at Miss Grand International 2016, looked as lovely as ever at a recent photo shoot in Ho Chi Minh City welcoming the New Lunar Year of the Rooster.

Vietnam’s Embassy in the Republic of Korea (RoK) on January 23 held a traditional New Year celebration for Vietnamese people in the RoK.

VOV.VN - Truong Thi May, a former Miss Ethnic Vietnam runner up, is one of the newest faces to grace the catwalk in the fashion world.

A documentary film on Vietnamese workers conscripted to work in war-torn France, directed by Yse Tran, was screened at the French Parliament in Paris recently.