Early bookings for the Lunar New Year, known locally as Tet, have reached 95% of its target, with the number of foreign travelers visiting Vietnam and Vietnamese tourists traveling abroad increasing sharply, according to tour operators.

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) has submitted its proposal on next year’s public holidays scheme including the Lunar New Year (Tet) holidays plan to the Prime Minister.

In their proposal, the MoLISA presented two options, each consisting of five days and two weekend days.

During her visit to Vietnam on the occasion of the Lunar New Year 2023 (Tet), Vietnamese American singer Ha Phuong has released three new songs and an Ao Dai photoshoot.

As part of the national intangible cultural heritage, Dong Ho painting or Dong Ho folk woodcut painting is a genre of Vietnamese folk painting, stemming from Dong Ho village in the northern province of Bac Ninh in the 17th century.

Leaders of many countries, political parties, and international organisations have sent congratulations to General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong on the New Year 2023 and the traditional Lunar New Year of Vietnam.

Coca-Cola Vietnam has set the world’s largest Vietnamese Tet meal with the participation of 1,000 multi-generational families at the Hoa Lu Stadium in HCM City.

Like every year, these last days of the year are days when artisan Van Tong’s workshop in District 12 is in the process of preparing sculptures of the Eastern zodiac for the Nguyen Hue flower street display.

Visiting Hanoi flower markets to buy bonsais, house adornment stuff, or flowers for Tet decoration is an elegant hobby for many Hanoians.

The Hanoi municipal administration has decided to hold a series of firework displays at 31 venues across the capital to welcome in the Lunar New Year on the evening of January 21.

Despite there still being more than a month until the start of the Lunar New Year Festival, known locally as Tet, peach flower blossoms can already be found on sale at Quang An flower market.

Travel firms have entered the sprint in selling tours as Tet holiday will start in about one month. However, sales have been going slowly.

HCMC’s unique floating flower market on the lunar New Year is scheduled to open on January 6-21 (on the 5th -30th days of the last lunar month).

Nghe An’s farmers are keeping lights on throughout the night to help flower trees blossom in time for Tet.

Night flights will be doubled to meet increasing travel demand before, during, and after Lunar New Year Festival – the biggest one in Vietnam and other Asian countries, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).

People will have a three-day holiday for the New Year, and another seven-day for the traditional Lunar New Year celebrations.

Kumquat bonsai trees in the shape of the World Cup are proving popular among shoppers for home decorations in northern Vietnam.

Farmers in Hanoi’s Nhat Tan flower village are busy trimming leaves for peach trees to prepare for the upcoming Lunar New Year 2023 (Tet holiday).

Though difficulties in production and cash flow, employers are still promising to give 2023 Tet bonuses to their workers.