In photos: Colourful Hanoi streets ready to welcome Tet Festival

February 04, 2019 - 08:49 PM

Many streets in Hanoi have been colourfully decorated for the Lunar New Year or Tet Festival.

Decorations on Trang Tien Plaza

A woman takes photo at stall set up by Hoan Kiem Lake

Tree decorations placed by the Hoan Kiem Lake to welcome the year of the pig

Celebrations banners hung on many streets

Source: dtinews.vn, Lao Dong

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In photos: Colourful Hanoi streets ready to welcome Tet Festival

Many streets in Hanoi have been colourfully decorated for the Lunar New Year or Tet Festival.

Stranded hiker rescued from Danang forest

HCM City plans free public Wi-Fi citywide by 2030

Ho Chi Minh City busts Cambodia-linked drug vape network

One or two tropical cyclones forecast over East Sea in August

Heavy rain raises flash flood, landslide risk in Lao Cai

Hung Yen seizes counterfeit Adidas and Nike products

Three children swept away and killed in flash flood in Son La

Vietnamese-American sailors return to ancestral homeland aboard US carrier

Ca Mau offers childbirth payment to boost birth rate

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