Việt Nam News

As the most important event of the year in Việt Nam, Tết (Lunar New Year) offers many traditional customs, including calligraphy.

Postcoital bleeding is a medical term that refers to spotting or bleeding unrelated to menstruation and that occurs during or after sexual intercourse.

Unlike most students who are now enjoying the thought of having a week off from school for Tết, the members of one project are rushing to prepare gifts for kidney patients.

Local publishers and book distributors should release more quality books and expand their market to rural areas, border areas, islands and abroad to serve more readers, speakers at a conference in HCM City said last Friday (Jan  25).

Upcoming events in HCM City and southern provinces for Tết

“The Parting of the Plastic Sea” art installation opened on Friday in the atrium of the Estella Place retail mall in HCM City’s District 2.

A series of cultural activities have been organised at historic relics and cultural spaces in downtown Hà Nội’s Old Quarter featuring ancient Vietnamese customs for the Lunar New Year.

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A series of two books on the revolutionary social movement led by Sài Gòn’s intellectuals during the resistance war between 1930 and 1954 was released in HCM City on Friday (January 25).

Spring has sprung in the mountains in the north and in Điện Biên Province in particular. Mountainous peach blossoms in Điện Biên bearing the energy of wild spring have been transfered to the plains, where families have been preparing for the Lunar New Year. A branch of peach blossom not only helps decorate the house but also brings natural energy to the family.

Spring and love are the hottest themes for music videos (MV) that have been released this month to welcome Tết (Lunar New Year), which begins February 5. 

Pig-related paraphernalia originating from the kilns of Bát Tràng Village and around the world are on display at an exhibition entitled ‘My Zodiac Animal – Prosperous Pig’.

A vendor carries peach blossom branches from a  garden in Nhật Tân, Hà Nội, to sell at the market. As Tết approaches, thousands of peach blossoms, a key feature of Việt Nam’s Lunar New Year, are being sold and driven to all corners of the city. — VNA/VNS Trương Vị

An exhibition to mark the 10 year anniversary of quan họ (love duet singing) receiving the title of intangible cultural heritage of humanity from UNESCO is opening in the northern province of Bắc Ninh.

The original area of Hương Sơn Landscape Complex – home to 21 pagodas and dozens of grottoes in local mountains of Mỹ Đức District, Hà Nội – will remain unchanged amidst the development of tourism infrastructure, local authorities confirmed at a recent meeting held by Hà Nội authorities.

Award-winning guitarist Trần Tuấn An will perform a solo concert in Hà Nội on January 27.

The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents (TPD) will continue its “The Magic of Cinema” movie month with a screening of The Majestic on the night of Friday, January 27.

A series of traditional cultural activities will take place this week at the Việt Nam Museum of Ethnology on Hà Nội’s Nguyễn Văn Huyên Street to welcome Tết (Lunar New Year).