The Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) began its first trading session following the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival with a gong-beating ceremony on February 19, the 10th day of the lunar year.

VOV.VN - A number of stalls on Tan Ky - Tan Quy street in Ho Chi Minh City have prepared tonnes of broiled snakehead fish to sell to local residents on God of Wealth Day - the 10th day of the first lunar year, which falls on February 19 this year.

VOV.VN - Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin on February 17 visited the Memorial to Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh in Nakhon Phanom province, Northeast Thailand, affirming the site is a place of important historical significance and a bridge connecting Thailand-Vietnam friendship.

VOV.VN - The Golden Ball Awards 2023 ceremony is set to be held on February 19 in Ho Chi Minh City, according to the organising board.

VOV.VN - Despite facing global headwinds, Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s largest economic-financial centre that was hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021-2022, secured high growth in 2023, creating an essential prerequisite for the city to move ahead in 2024 and beyond.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese people took to the streets nationwide watching colourful fireworks light up the sky and ringing in the lunar New Year of the Dragon.

VOV.VN - A number of hospitals based in Ho Chi Minh City have organised various charity programmes, including zero-dong markets, in an effort to help patients and their families who have to spend their Tet in hospital.

VOV.VN - Along with apricots, peach blossoms, and kumquats, all of which are popular bonsai trees for Tet decorations, gardeners in Ho Chi Minh City are offering customers multicolour bougainvilleas at a price of up to hundreds of millions of VND.

VOV.VN - Nguyen Hue walking street, one of the famous tourist sites in Ho Chi Minh City, has been given a flowery facelift as part of efforts to welcome in the Year of the Dragon ahead of its official opening on the evening of February 7.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong offered incense in tribute to late President Ho Chi Minh on February 7 at House 67 inside the Presidential Palace complex in Hanoi ahead of the Lunar New Year, known locally as Tet, the most important traditional festival celebrated by the Vietnamese people.