VOV.VN - Several major tourist destinations in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have been left packed on the first day of New Year holiday.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on December 29 asked the Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV), the Minister of Finance and the General Director of Vietnam State Treasury to deploy measures to meet payment and cash demands of individuals and firms at year-end, during the coming New Year and Lunar New Year holidays.

VOV.VN - Website Travel Off Path of the United States which specializes in tourism, recently published an article highlighting the Top 6 destinations in Asia for the New Year, including Vietnam.

VOV.VN - As part of the Lunar New Year celebration, known locally as Tet, local people of Vinh Khe village in An Duong district of Hai Phong hold a wrestling festival on the seventh day of the first lunar month.

VOV.VN - Tet celebrations have become a unique cultural activity and identity of the ethnic Dao Tien people of Hoai Khao village in the northern province of Cao Bang.

VOV.VN - Pam DeVolder, a public affairs officer at the US Embassy in Hanoi, has been living in Vietnam for about four years, and the traditional lunar New Year (Tet) is no longer something strange to her. Let’s find out what she knows about Vietnam’s this biggest festival.

VOV.VN - Despite assuming the duty far away from the mainland, troops on DK1 platform spend time making decorations and preparing traditional dishes for a cozy, joyful and jubilant lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

The Vietnamese Intellectual Society (VIS) in the UK and Ireland on January 14 held an annual meeting to review its performance last year and a traditional Lunar New Year celebration for Vietnamese expatriates.

VOV.VN - The New Year period represents the biggest festival of the Dao Tien ethnic minority in the northern mountainous province of Bac Kan, when they pray for a good harvest and the best things for their family in the New Year.

VOV.VN - There are 10 leading entertainment venues in Ho Chi Minh City, the largest metropolis in Vietnam, where you can visit for lunar New Year celebrations.