“Tet Vietnam Xua” (Vietnam’s Tet in the Olden Days), a collection of articles by Vietnamese and French scholars, gives readers a host of insights into the traditional holiday through its many rituals and customs.

Vietnam’s coffee exports are expected to have a good start to 2021 after a gloomy year due to the severe impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to industry insiders.

A “Mam Ngu Qua” or five-fruit tray is indispensable for each Vietnamese family among the numerous offerings required to decorate ancestral altars during the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

The candied ginger made in Kim Long ward, Hue city, in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, stands out for its authenticity and absence of additives. 

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has changed from a passive to a proactive role in handling environmental issues over the last several years, 

“I really love the Tet season,” US Ambassador to Vietnam Daniel J. Kritenbrink told VietNamNet in an interview on the occasion of the lunar New Year (Tet).

Professor Dr. Tran Dinh Thien, a member of the Government Economic Council talks about the important role of private economy in national economic development.

Dishes not only demonstrate the skillfulness and resourcefulness of a homemaker and special features of each locality, but also reflect the cultural identity of each nation. 

On the first morning of the Lunar New Year, the weather in Hanoi is pleasantly cool, the air is fresh, and the streets are peacefully quiet.

Passing down through generations and continued with equal enthusiasm today, “Xong dat” (first footing), a Tet tradition in Vietnam, has always been associated with hopes for a fruitful year ahead.

Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnamese mission to the United Nations, on February 11 welcomed the positive progress recorded in the implementation of the Minsk agreements over the recent past.

Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong has granted an interview to the Vietnam News Agency on the occasion of the Lunar New Year – 2021.

The SASR-CoV-2 virus strain found in patients who are employees at HCM City’s Tan Son Nhat airport appear for the first time in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

At 6pm on February 12 (the 1 st day of the lunar New Year), the Ministry of Health announced 2 more cases of Covid-19 in Hanoi and Bac Ninh province, bringing the total number of patients nationwide to 2,142.

The National Centre for Socio-Economic Information and Forecasting (NCIF) has released a forecast on Vietnam’s economic performance in 2021, with GDP growth of 6.72 percent and CPI of 4.2 percent under an optimistic scenario.

The Vietnamese Government has made a great success in advancing gender equality, and the UN Women has accompanied the Government in the work, Elisa Fernandez Saenz, Country Representative of UN Women in Vietnam, has said.

When the Covid-19 pandemic, which started in Wuhan in China a year ago, broke out, even the most optimistic person could not imagine that the Vietnamese economy would stand firm.

Hang Bac is viewed as the “most expensive” among Hanoi’s 36 old streets. In the past, people living on this street relied on three major jobs, involving silver ingot and jewellery making, and money exchange.

Mr. Nguyen Van Be, 71, in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho, after a clinical death, oddly recovered from being sightless and voiceless. He is now voluble and a ball of fire as if he had never put up with impairments.

The wave of high-tech companies investing billions of US dollars in Vietnam is already materialising, raising the question for the country on exactly how to absorb all the incoming capital.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc held separate phone talks with Lao Party General Secretary and Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, and Cambodia People’s Party President and Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on February 11.

Mr. Nguyen Tan Hieu, 34, in Binh Thuy district, Can Tho city has acquired a collection of around 200 valuable vintage cassettes, radios, and over 100 old kerosene lamps.

It is essential to promote sustainable development of the Mekong Delta in the direction of effectively adapting to climate change, 

Investors are pinning their hopes on different investment channels this year despite the many difficulties and risks brought about by COVID-19, analysts have said.

Spring is coming and bringing hope for better days ahead, especially for the Mo Nong ethnic minority people of Tra Leng Commune in Nam Tra My District, the central province of Quang Nam.