VOV.VN - Many Vietnamese in the US travelled to pagodas over the first few days of the Lunar New Year to offer their prayers for a felicitous year in 2018.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese leaders’ New Year messages and major national events last year were front-paged on the lunar New Year edition of newspapers. Vietnamese people at home and abroad jubilantly celebrating the New Year has been reported widely.

Many hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City face chronic overcrowding as they provide service for local patients as well as those from other provinces.

An IT engineer in central Vietnam is demonstrating the value of hydroculture as an effective way to build climate change resilience in the storm-prone region.

People have been cumulatively taken to the hospital aplenty in Vietnam only in the first three days of the Tet holidays, according to a report by the Ministry of Health.

A sailing festival took place in the central province of Quang Ngai’s Sa Huynh port on February 18 to mark the first day at sea of local fishermen in the lunar year.

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue has put many efforts to preserve and restore relics of the UNESCO-recognised Complex of Hue Monuments in Hue city, the former royal capital of Vietnam, over the past two decades.

Many Vietnamese expatriates in France have chosen pagodas in Paris suburbs to visit during the very first days of the lunar New Year (Tet), an age-old tradition of Vietnamese people.

Many flights of the budget airline Vietjet Air from/to the northern port city of Hai Phong and the central Thua Thien-Hue province were affected by unfavourable weather on late February 17 and early February 18.

VOV.VN - A new year has already arrived, bringing great joy to Vietnamese people and their international friends. Tet or the lunar New Year festival makes everyone closer, no matter where they are from. Foreigners who are working and living in Vietnam are eager to experience Vietnam’s Tet celebrations.  

Vietnam reported nearly 100 road crashes which killed 70 people and injured dozens of others on the first two days of the Lunar New Year.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s northwestern region is home to many ethnic minority groups. These days, local ethnic people are enjoying a new spring full of happiness and growing prosperity.

Although the Hanoi People’s Committee has recently tightened dog management by asking dog owners to register their pets, the vast majority of people have remained unaware of the policy.

Police arrested a young man on February 16 who is suspected in the killing of five members of a family in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Tan district and robbed their house.

VOV.VN - More than 10,000 people paid pilgrimage to the Hung Temple in the northern province of Phu Tho on February 16, the first day of the Lunar New Year, to commemorate the Hung Kings’ merit and pray for a happy New Year.

The third Vietnamese street food festival themed “Tet Viet” is taking place at the Hanoi-Moscow trade centre in Russia from February 16-18.

Many activities celebrating Vietnamese traditional new year festival (Tet), which falls on February 16 this year, have been held among the Vietnamese community abroad.

VOV.VN - The international community shares a belief in Vietnam’s prospects for 2018, thanks to economic stability, the government’s determination to reform institutions, and Vietnam’s greater status in the international arena.

VOV.VN - The Lunar New Year festival or Tet is of great spiritual significance to Vietnamese people. Traditionally, New Year activities mainly take place within families. The last day of the lunar year is the time for family.

VOV.VN - A passenger bus carrying 28 foreign tourists suddenly erupted into flames near the peak of Hai Van Pass at 10 am on 15 February.

The Vietnamese Embassy in France has sent a working team to Coquelles commune in France’s Pas de Calais region where local authorities are detaining 12 people believed to be Vietnamese to verify the information and conduct necessary citizen protection activities.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Embassy in Russia on February 15 hosted a year-end party for the Vietnamese expats living in Russia, seeing the attendance of embassy staff and Vietnamese community representatives.

VOV.VN - 2 million Vietnamese poor people have been helped over the past month to enjoy the Lunar New Year festival as other people do. This humanitarian activity originates from Vietnam’s tradition of “The haves help the have-nots.” 

Nakhon Sri Thammarat is considering the planned construction of city gates to impress visitors to the southern province. 

The Thai Ministry of Public Health is set to implement a three-pronged policy to promote correct drug use, as well as transparent drug procurement by hospitals. 

All hospitals at both central and local levels in Hanoi have carefully prepared for emergencies during Tet (Lunar New Year).

A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Director of Debt Management and External Finance under the Ministry of Finance Hoang Hai attended the 41st Session of the Governing Council of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome, Italy on February 13-14.

A new spring is nearing. Not only Vietnamese but foreigners who are living in the country are very eager to welcome the Lunar New Year, the biggest festival of Vietnamese in a year.

Nhat Tan peach blossoms, once the pride of Hanoi’s West Lake, are now blooming vigorously in Lam Ha district in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong where hundreds of people moved from the capital. 

Take a trip 40 kilometres outside the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and you’ll notice panels of rice papers drying in the sun on rattan racks lining the roads in Thot Not district’s Thuan Hung ward.