VietNamNet Bridge – The authorities may permit residents to use "non-explosive fireworks" during the coming Tet (Lunar New Year).

 VietNamNet Bridge - On January 11, four students from the Ho Chi Minh City Polytechnic University were tragically killed in a fire which broke out in ward 14, district 10, HCM City.

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 VietNamNet Bridge - After three days in hospital, two female workers of the Z121 firework factory in Thanh Ba district, Phu Tho province, died of the severe burns, bringing the death toll in the explosion to 26.

Entertainment firecrackers – the product that creates lighting and sound effects but no explosion is considering by the authorities for popular use during the Lunar New Year 2014.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prior to every Tet Lunar New Year festive season, which this year falls on February 10, hundreds of cases of firecrackers are seized by customs authorities at border gates from China,

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