As Tet (Lunar New Year) nears, Illegal firecracker trading has become an increasingly difficult problem to manage, according to the customs office of Tan Thanh, northern province of Lang Son. Officials inspect illegal firecrackers which were seized last Saturday in Quang Ninh Province’s Border Guard Station No 11. The station seized nearly 700kg of firecrackers. [...]
Tens of thousands of visitors converged on Dong Ky village in Bac Ninh province, about 30km from Hanoi, on January 29 to celebrate its traditional firecracker festival. Hundreds of villagers carried two massive representations of firecrackers, which were engraved with four mythical creatures (dragon, lion, tortoise and phoenix) to the communal house for the ritual. [...]
