About 1,000 Chinese travellers have come to Vietnam on the first two days of the Lunar New Year, according to the Lao Cai provincial border guard.

During the first three days of the Lunar New Year, hospitals in big cities and 31 provinces received 6,302 victims of traffic accidents, down 21 percent compared to the same period last year.

The Vietnamese community in Germany’s Leipzig city hosted a Tet celebration on February 14 for nearly 300 Vietnamese nationals in the city. 

Vietnamese nationals in Japan gathered at the Vietnamese Embassy in Tokyo on February 13 to enjoy New Year’s Eve party.

More than 3,000 tourists, mostly foreigners, visited the UNESCO-recognised Ha Long Bay in Quang Ninh province on February 14 – the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Despite living far from his homeland for several decades, Dr. Bui Duy Tam, an overseas Vietnamese living in San Francisco, the US, thinks often of Vietnam. His home is a small museum, of Vietnamese culture.

More and more foreigners chose Vietnam as a place to live and work. No matter how long they have been living in Vietnam, they all share the view that the Lunar New Year Festival (Tet) is very special.

Securing a place in the hearts of audience has been an aspiration of Radio the Voice of Vietnam for many years. It’s a lifetime commitment for the radio staff to try to modernize the radio and enrich its content.

Relationships between soldiers and people have been described in Vietnam as fish and water. That’s also the rule of nature.

About 700,000 poor households (2.9 million people) who are in dire need of food have enjoyed government financial support of VND200,000 each on the occasion of the Lunar New Year festival.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Mexico held a banquet on February 11 for expatriates and representatives of other foreign diplomatic corps to celebrate Vietnam’s traditional Tet holiday.

As the traditional Tet (Lunar New Year) festival approaches, thousands of foreign students studying in Vietnam are managing to welcome Tet holidays in their own ways, but they all share an impressive feeling on the holiday, the Sai Gon Giai Phong daily reported on February 12.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has sent a dispatch to a number of provinces, cites and ministries, providing guidance on combating climatic effects of El Nino climate and preventing the development of epidemics in rice paddies.

A fire in Lao Cai province’s Hoang Lien National Park has burnt more than 1,000 ha of the park despite efforts by firefighters to control the blaze.

The Phu My Lepironia Project, a conservation initiative in Vietnam, was introduced at a press conference of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in New York on February 11.

As Ha Long Bay is becoming one of the most popular tourist attractions at Tet, Quang Ninh provincial tourism sector has planned to organize entertainment activities to welcome visitors to the province.

About VND400 billion and 40,000 tonnes of rice have been presented to poor people on the occasion of the Lunar New Year.

The Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Hospital in Dong Hoi City, Quang Binh province, on February 12 organised a blood donation among its staff and doctors.

A strong cold spell hit northern provinces on February 12, putting an end to the unusual hot weather, says the Central Hydro-meteorological Forecasting Centre.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has assigned the Ministries of Health, Investment and Planning and Finance to agree on the scale of receiving the batch of A/H1N1 flu vaccine provided by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as part of non-refundable aid.

Lao transport companies has doubled their bus services from Vientiane to major Vietnamese cities to 20 trips per day on average in order to meet the increasing travel demand during the Vietnamese traditional lunar new year (Tet) holiday.

A delegation from the High Command of the Cambodian Royal Army Guards, led by its deputy chief General Dieng Sarun, on February paid a Tet visit to Vietnam’s Soc Trang province.

These days Truong Sa islanders are busy preparing for Tet. To supplement food from the mainland, they have grown vegetables and bred livestock throughout the year so they can enjoy varied dishes during the Lunar New Year holiday.

More and more people are signing up for tours of Danang as this year’s Tet holiday nears and local travel agencies have designed many exciting tours for the occasion.

The Prime Minister has signed a decision asking the Finance Ministry to deliver 3,620 tonnes of rice from the national reserve to assist people in the central provinces of Kon Tum and Khanh Hoa and the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau during Tet.

The Vietnamese embassies in France and Japan held ceremonies on February 10 to welcome the lunar New Year (the Year of the Tiger).

Bus stations in HCM City have pressed more buses into service and made efforts to improve services during the Tet holidays.

The national flag carrier, Vietnam Airlines, has announced that it will open a direct air route between Hanoi and Yangon (Myanmar) on March 2.

The Ministry of Health confirmed one more death of the A/H1N1 influenza on February 10, bringing the total number of fatalities in Vietnam to 58.

Vietnam continues to lead the 15 countries which export labour to the Republic of Korea, according to the Employment Permit System (EPS) programme.