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Can Cau Market, in Lao Cai Province, is locally famous for preserving the cultural identities of several ethnic minority groups.

Located to Hanoi’s southeast, the traditional Bat Trang craft village is an ideal shopping destination for visitors on Tet holidays.

"I love the warm atmosphere of Lunar New Year's Eve, when the whole family gets together to enjoy the traditional year-end feast," Pham Thi Vy says.

The northwestern province of Lao Cai has temporarily stopped licensing tours and selling tickets to Hoang Lien National Park and Fansipan Mountain until the first quarter of 2014 to serve forest fire prevention.

A PhD thesis on Vietnam's ancient ceramics by researcher Beatrice Wisniewski from the Paris-Sorbonne University has been awarded the Young Talent grand prize by the France-Vietnam Friendship Association.

Hanoi’s House of Heritage is celebrating the famous Dong Ho and Hang Trong folk painting styles as part of Lunar New Year (Tet) festivities.

Eighty photos featuring architecture and objects dating back to feudal times found at literature temples across the country, are on display at the Literature Temple in downtown Hanoi.

Calligraphers offering Chinese, nom (old Vietnamese characters based on Chinese characters) and Vietnamese letters to people during the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday will be relocated to inside the Van Mieu Historic Relic, near the Van lake, according to

The first museum of ao dai, the traditional long dress, opened on January 22 in HCM City.

As Tet is nearing, Hanoi becomes more busy and exciting, with colourful decorations on streets.

Many rare and expensive kinds of animals, which were considered as specialties offered for Kings in the past, are now being displayed at Hanoi Spring Fair 2014 as Tet nears.

The long-awaited Tran Temple Festival in Nam Dinh Province will open on the 12th day of the first lunar month, featuring a water procession and fish-offering ceremony.

A Hanoi spring fair is displaying a variety of specialty farm produce as part of the lead-up to 2014 Lunar New Year celebrations.

Flower traders from the Mekong Delta have been steering their boats towards various canals in HCM City to display their goods.

The heart-shaped Phu Quoc island of Vietnam ranked third in the list of best winter trips 2014, according to the U.S.-based National Geographic Traveler magazine.

Zodiac animal-shaped trees, especially the horse, for 2014, have been selling very well in the markets despite expensive prices.

The American Business Insider Magazine has recognised Vietnam’s Son Doong cave system as one of the world’s 12 most impressive.

Peach growers in Hanoi's Nhat Tan village are earning large profits taking pictures of young people who want to be photographed in front of flowers.

Organisers of the country's longest festival, the Huong (Perfume) Pagoda Festival, expect to reap the benefits of recent improvements made to appeal to more tourists.