A festival was held in Hanoi on February 18 – the fifth day of the first lunar month – to celebrate the 221st anniversary of the Ngoc Hoi-Dong Da victory over 290,000 Qing invaders.
The number of foreign passengers through the Noi Bai International Airport has sharply increased over the first three days of the Year of the Tiger, said the airport’s Border Customs Department.
Vietnamese Americans celebrate Tet with traditional banh chung, but to accommodate busy life in the U.S., the rice cakes come from a bakery instead of being made at home.