Day: January 23, 2022

State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended an art performance organised in Hanoi on January 22 evening by the Foreign Ministry to mark the arrival of the lunar New Year. Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son affirmed achievements recorded in Vietnam’s foreign activities, including the work on overseas Vietnamese which made important and practical contributions. Activities by […]

Students of Laos and Cambodia in Ho Chi Minh City have received many gifts on the occasion of the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) of Vietnam. The gifts were presented by young workers of the HCM City Power Corporation which also signed an agreement with the dormitory of Lao students to organise many cultural and […]

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh offered Lunar New Year (Tet) greetings to officials and people of Vinh Long while visiting the Mekong Delta province on January 23. He noted that though Vinh Long has been hit hard by the fourth wave of COVID-19 but thanks to their strong resolve, all-level Party Committees, administrations, sectors, and […]

Vietnamese people in Russia, Israel, and Mexico marked the coming Lunar New Year (Tet) with ceremonies organised by the embassies of Vietnam on January 22. In Moscow, representatives of the Vietnamese community in Russia took part in the “Homeland’s Spring” prorgamme, held in Hanoi by the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (OV) Affairs and the […]

Vietnamese embassies have been busy organising celebrations of traditional New Year – Tet – for Vietnamese expats across the world. On January 22, the Embassy in Kuala Lumpur hosted a gathering for Vietnamese people living in Malaysia, during which Ambassador Tran Viet Thai extended Tet greetings to the Vietnamese community. He praised outstanding Vietnamese role […]

Vietnam is seeking ways to revive the billion-dollar pepper industry which has been struggling against unfavourable weather conditions and the COVID-19 pandemic for over the last several years. Vietnamese producers are likely to face a shortage in raw pepper for processing and export in 2022 due to global undersupply, according to a representative from the […]

A young painter has released a book telling stories about water puppetry as well as the career of artisans and artists of this traditional art. The book, “Ke chuyen tren mat nuoc” (Stories on water surface), was created by Luong Linh, a young man in Ho Chi Minh City who spent four years cruising Vietnam […]