January 25, 2012
Consumer demand for holiday goods and transportation will grow 10 percent from last year, according to a government forecast that urged authorities to monitor and stabilize prices. Asia’s fastest inflation is the last thing on Tran Hang’s mind as she jostles fellow shoppers at a street stall in Hanoi’s Old Quarter to snap up [...]
Tags: 000 Dong, 10 Percent From, 10 Percent From Last, 10-percent, According, Al Fresco, And Stabilize Prices, And Transportation Will, And Transportation Will Grow, based, biggest, Cakes, Candy, capital, Capital Securities, Central, Central bank, Chi minh, Chi minh city, Chi Minh City Based, City Based, companies, company, consumer, Consumer Demand, Consumer Demand For, Consumer Demand For Holiday, Country, demand, Demand For Holiday, Demand For Holiday Goods, director, dragon, For Holiday Goods, For Holiday Goods And, For The Country, forecast, Forecast That Urged, Forecast That Urged Authorities, From Last Year, From Last Year According, Goods And Transportation, Goods And Transportation Will, Government, Government Forecast, Government Forecast That, Government Forecast That Urged, Grow 10, Ho Chi, Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh City, holiday, Holiday Goods, Holiday Goods And, Holiday Goods And Transportation, inflation, Interest rates, Last year, Last Year According, Ldquo, Ldquo Tet, Minh city, Minh City Based, Monitor And Stabilize, Monitor And Stabilize Prices, More expensive, New Clothes, New year, Nguyen, Nguyen van, people, percent, Percent From Last, Percent From Last Year, price, Price Gains, prices, Rdquo, sales, spend, spending, Stabilize Prices, Taxi Driver, That Urged Authorities, The country, The Currency, The government, The Holiday, The Nation, This year, To Monitor And, To Monitor And Stabilize, Transportation Will Grow, urged, Urged Authorities, Viet Capital, Viet Capital Securities, Vietnam, Vietnamese, Which Sells, Year According
Posted in News | Comments Off
January 23, 2012
Affluence and status-mongering could distort the meaning and purpose of a venerable custom A ceremony held to celebrate longevity for both parents in Hanoi “Kinh gia, gia de tuoi cho” – Respect the elders and you will live for as long as they do, goes a well-known Vietnamese saying. Hence, the older the elder, [...]
Tags: Affluence And Status, And Friends Are, Association, Being Honored, Best Wishes, Blessing Their Parents, celebration, ceremony, children, Communal house, Custom, Elder, Elders, event, family, Family Members, first, For All The, For Blessing Their, For Blessing Their Parents, friends, gifts, Grandfather, honored, house, Ldquo, Long Red, Longevity, Longevity Ceremony, lunar, Lunar new, Lunar New Year, members, My Grandfather, New year, Of The Lunar, Of The Lunar New, parents, Party, Paying Homage, people, People Being Honored, place, Present Gifts, Rdquo, respect, Thanh, Thanh nien, The Celebration, The Ceremony, The Elder, The Elders, The Elders Who, The event, The first, The house, The Longevity, The Longevity Ceremony, The lunar, The Lunar New, The Lunar New Year, The Names, The Person, Their Parents, Traditional, Traditional Long Red, wishes
Posted in Reports | Comments Off
January 23, 2012
During New Year, people often like to feast on simple traditional dishes along with their families When the weather turns a little cold at the end of the year, it signals the arrival of holidays like the New Year and the Lunar New Year, or Tet. It is the time when everyone expects to [...]
Tags: Cheeks, cheese, Ear Mushroom, Ears Snout, Ears Snout And, Ears Snout And Cheeks, Giò Thủ, Head Cheese, minutes, Mixture, New year, Snout, Snout And Cheeks, The Meat, The Mixture, The Mold, water, Wood Ear Mushroom
Posted in Travel | Comments Off
January 20, 2012
The Tet flower road will return to Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City this Friday, highlighted by a giant dragon blowing blooms, as the city starts celebrating the Year of Dragon. With the Lunar New Year starting Monday next week, work to transform Nguyen Hue Street into a street of flowers began on January 10. The 12 meter long, [...]
Tags: All Made, All Made From, All Made From Flowers, dragon, Flower, Flower Road, flowers, Hue Street, January, lunar, Lunar new, Lunar New Year, Made From Flowers, Many Miniatures, New year, Nguyen, Nguyen hue, Nguyen Hue Street, Street, The city, The Coastal, The country, The Dragon, The road, The year, Water Hyacinth
Posted in Travel | Comments Off
January 16, 2012
A local woman is offering food, carps and clothing for the Kitchen Gods On the 23rd of the last lunar month every year, the large kitchen in Ms Ly Thi Phuong’s house in Hanoi’s Gia Lam District becomes extremely busy. The 56-year-old prepares for something important for most Vietnamese – a gala farewell party [...]
Tags: At That Time, Bank Fire, By Rice Husk, Cooking, During Tet, Every family, family, farewell, Farewell Party, Farewell Party For, Farewell Party For The, For The Kitchen, For The Kitchen Gods, For The Party, For The Party Alone, For The Three, For The Three Kitchen, Gala Farewell, Gala Farewell Party, Gala Farewell Party For, Her Old, Her Old Husband, husband, important, In The Past, Jade Emperor, Kitchen, Kitchen Gods, Ldquo, lunar, Lunar month, Many people, Most Popular, New year, normally:, Old Husband, Party, Party For The, Party For The Three, people, Phuong, Phuong Says, Phuong Says Ldquo, popular, Rdquo, Rdquo Phuong, Rdquo Phuong Says, Rdquo Phuong Says Ldquo, Rice Husk, Says Ldquo, store, That The Kitchen, That The Kitchen Gods, The Altar, The Altar For, The family, The Jade, The Jade Emperor, The Kitchen, The Kitchen Gods, The Most Popular, The party, The Party Alone, The past, The Story, The three, The Three Kitchen, The Three Kitchen Gods, Three, Three Kitchen, Three Kitchen Gods, To Bank Fire, Vietnamese, Votive Offerings
Posted in Travel | Comments Off
January 6, 2012
A total of 95 Vietnamese people were killed and 81 others injured in 117 traffic accidents across the country during the New Year holiday. Figures from the Road and Railway Police Department showed that only one of the accidents occurred on the railway, killing one person, while all others on the roads, news website [...]
Tags: Accidents, killed, New year, New Year Holiday, others, Others Injured, people, People Were Killed, People Were Killed And, The new, The New Year, traffic, Traffic Accidents, Were Killed, Were Killed And, Year Holiday
Posted in Social | Comments Off
January 3, 2012
Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. A New Year Special Concert, themed Haydn Night, will take place at the Hanoi Opera House at 8 p.m. on January 11. Haydn Night will feature Japanese conductor Honna Tetsuji, piano soloist Nguyen The Vinh and the [...]
Tags: Haydn, Haydn Night, Haydn Night Will, Joseph, Joseph Haydn, New year, Opera House
Posted in Lifestyle | Comments Off
December 31, 2011
White H’mong girls In the high mountains of northern Vietnam, the H’mong are all set to celebrate their New Year next week. Vietnam’s eighth largest ethnic group is renowned for its colorful clothes and the New Year is an occasion for flaunting them. For the H’mong, in fact, clothes do make the man – [...]
Tags: And Patterns The, Apron, black, Black Apron, Black Jacket, Clothes, coins, Colorful, colors, Colors And Patterns, Colors And Patterns The, Costume, different, Dresses, Embroidered, Embroidering And Sewing, Flower, Girls, In Lai Chau, In Lao Cai, Indigo, Indigo Batik, Jacket, Lai Chau, Lao cai, Ldquo, Leggings, Linen, market, Mong Girls, Mong Woman, Mong Women, New year, Patterns, Pleated, Pleated Skirt, province, Rdquo, Says Ldquo, Skirt, Suit Comprises, Thanh nien, The Colorful, The Colors, The flower, The market, The new, The New Year, Their Clothes, Their Dresses, To Decorate Their, weaving, woman, women
Posted in Travel | Comments Off
December 31, 2011
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport has announced it will ban vehicles from traveling on some certain streets to pave the way for New Year celebrations. Vehicles will be banned from entering Nguyen Hue Street in District 1 from 6 p.m. on Dec. 31, 2011 until 1 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2012. There will [...]
Tags: Ban Vehicles, Ban Vehicles From, Banned From Entering, Be Banned From, Be Banned From Entering, Dec 31, Hue Street, New year, Nguyen, Nguyen hue, Nguyen Hue Street, Street, streets, vehicles
Posted in Social | Comments Off
December 30, 2011
Garment workers are among those receiving low Tet, New Year bonuses this year Vietnam’s highest Tet and calendar New Year bonus for an individual this year as of December 27 was paid by a foreign-invested firm in Ho Chi Minh City at more than US$52,300. The company, which is not named, paid the country’s largest [...]
Tags: 52 300, among, Among Foreign, Among Foreign Invested, Among Foreign Invested Firms, Are Among Those, At State Owned, At State Owned Firms, Average, Average Bonus, Big Gap, bonus, Bonus Among, Bonus Among Foreign, Bonus Among Foreign Invested, bonuses, Bonuses This Year, Businesses, Calendar New, Calendar New Year, Calendar New Year Bonus, Country, employees, firms, Foreign, Foreign Invested Firm, Foreign Invested Firms, Foreign-invested, highest, Highest Bonus, Human Resource, Human Resource Development, In The City, invested, Invested Firm, Invested Firms, labor, Ldquo, million, New year, New Year Bonus, owned, Owned Firms, paying, percent, Private, Private Firms, Rdquo, Resource Development, Some Businesses, state, State Owned Firms, State-owned, Tet New, Tet New Year, The Average, The Average Bonus, The Bonus, The Businesses, The city, The country, The highest, The Lowest, Thien, This year, Year Bonus, zones
Posted in Business | Comments Off