Việt Nam News

Nguyễn Thị Bốn, one of artisans of the centuries-old tussore silk weaving craft, does not remember exactly when she started engaging in this craft.

In today's fast-paced world, many young people in the capital city of Hanoi have found their own ways to experience the Lunar New Year Festival (called Tết in Vietnamese) suitable to modern life while still preserving the essence of the traditional celebration.

Nearly 362,000 tourists are hoped to visit the Đà Nẵng City during the holiday, a rise of 23 per cent from the corresponding time last year, including 172,000 international and 190,000 domestic.

Quảng Ninh Province welcomed the first group of tourists to visit Hạ Long Bay on the first day of Tết.

Tết – the Lunar New Year – is one of the most important holidays in Việt Nam. Ambassadors share the joy with Vietnamese people and send wishes to them as well as express their expectations in the new year.

With Tết just around the corner, the Ambassadors and Charge d’Affaires to Việt Nam from the G4 countries (New Zealand, Canada, Norway, and Switzerland) extended their good wishes to workers, who strive daily to ensure their families' livelihoods and contribute to society in their unique ways.

With the allocation of investment capital, the ministry expects a dramatic change for the socio-economic development of the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta region.

On the first day of Tết, Hà Nội residents took to the streets to celebrate the new year.

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.

Metro line No.1 consists of 17 trains, each of which comprises three carriages and is 61.5m long. All were manufactured in Japan.