VOV.VN - Dozens of experts and engineers on February 1-2 received and pumped 113,000 cubic metres of oil from Apollo oil tanker into Dung Quat oil refinery.

A get-together to celebrate the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival for Vietnamese people living, working and studying in Egypt was hosted by the Vietnamese Embassy in the African country on January 31.

VOV.VN - The first day of the Lunar New Year saw the usually crowded and noisy streets of downtown Hanoi fall quiet with few pedestrians or citizens to be seen on local roads.

The Tan Cang Sai Gon (Saigon Newport) Corporation (SNP) served seven container ships on the Lunar New Year's eve (January 31) at its Tan Cang-Cat Lai Port in Thu Duc city, Ho Chi Minh City.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese people typically go on a pilgrimage at the beginning of each Lunar New Year in order to pray for safety, health, good luck, prosperity, and happiness during the year ahead.

VOV.VN - The southcentral province of Khanh Hoa welcomed its first 138 visitors of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, on a Vietnam Airlines’ flight departing from Hanoi on the morning of February 1.

Visiting pagodas during the Lunar New Year festival is not merely an activity associated with Buddhism but it has become an age-old cultural tradition, and an indispensable part in Vietnamese people’s spiritual life.

Ambassador of Chile to Vietnam Patricio Becker has shared his feelings about the first time he has welcomed a Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday in the country, saying despite changes in society, traditional cultural values of the Vietnamese people have still been upheld and brought into play.

VOV.VN - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc paid a Lunar New Year visit to the armed forces and some localities based in the central city of Da Nang on February 1, the first day of the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

According to traditional belief, what starts well will end well, so the first guest to enter the house after midnight on the Lunar New Year’s Eve is believed to have a bearing on the family’s fortune throughout the year.