With Tết (the Lunar New Year holiday) arriving, Canadian, Cuban, Indian, Norwegian, French and New Zealand ambassadors to Việt Nam tell Lê Hương of their excitement and their plans for the year ahead.

Dazzling firework shows took place at various sites nationwide on February 10, when country has entered the first day of the Lunar New Year, to welcome the Year of the Dragon.

The most prominent part of the show was the 15-minute performance featuring 2024 drones, which set a Southeast Asian record in terms of number of unmanned vehicles involved, followed by high-altitude fireworks show from 00:00am when the Year of the Dragon began.

HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport, the country’s busiest, has adopted a cashless parking payment system to reduce congestion at its entrance and exit.

In Quảng Bình, in recent days, fishing boats have been returning to shore to supply seafood the Lunar New Year, creating a busy and bustling atmosphere at the fishing ports.

Bạc Liêu Province in the Mekong Delta plans to rank first in shrimp processing technology in the country.

Việt Nam has joined the race to develop global semiconductor technology, had the first scientist to win the VinFuture award, and seen an explosion of AI with the Vietnamese desire to localise ChatGPT.

More than four months after the historic floods on the night of September 12, 2023 that killed seven people, injured six and damaged 61 cold-water fish farms with about 610 fish ponds, traces of severe damages still haunt local people.

To mark the Year of the Dragon 2024, Engineering Unit Rotation 2 has built detailed plans on each activity like making “chưng” cakes – a signature dish of Tết, holding room decoration and cooking competitions, planting the “nêu” pole – another symbol of Tết, and organising folk games.