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Hanoi’s golden horse ushers in fortune for Lunar New Year 2026
In the lead-up to the Year of the Horse, local artisans spend months refining posture, spirit, and symbolism, turning precious metals into cultural icons of luck and ambition.
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This will be the third time the French Ambassador to Vietnam has spent the Tet holiday in Vietnam, though Vietnamese customs continue to impress him as if it were the first time.
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Vietnam has released the 2026 Year of the Horse commemorative stamp set, using the annual Tet as a platform to project cultural identity and support its creative industries.
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Korean language gains ground as Vietnam approves TOPIK equivalency
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Tet of compassion for Vietnamese patients living with dialysis
While Tet brings families together across Hanoi, dialysis patients find comfort in gestures of compassion from the city's authorities and the wider community, even as they continue their uninterrupted treatment routines.
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When Vietnam’s coffee capital dressed in white blossoms
Blooming together, the flowers appear to cloak the basalt highland city in soft clouds, settling the landscape into a calm and expansive stillness where beauty speaks without sound.
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When Vietnamese Tet reaches the heat of Abyei
Vietnamese peacekeepers in Abyei mark Tet amid extreme heat and red dust, sustaining Lunar New Year traditions while rebuilding roads, bridges and schools as a quiet testament to resilience, solidarity and peace.
11 Feb, 01:55 PM
Hanoi Party chief pays New Year visits to former leaders
Ahead of Tet, Hanoi Party Secretary Nguyen Duy Ngoc has paid New Year visits to former national and city leaders in the capital, combining traditional greetings with a message of Hanoi’s development ambitions.
11 Feb, 09:27 AM
New textbooks launched to support Vietnamese teaching abroad
The curriculum was developed with a learner-centred approach, viewing Vietnamese not merely as a subject but as a cultural space in which overseas Vietnamese children can engage, experience and form emotional connections.
10 Feb, 09:29 PM