VIETNAM TODAY

Young people have flocked to pagodas during the first days of the lunar new year to pray for good luck for their families.

President Truong Tan Sang on February 11 (the 2nd day of the 2013 Lunar New Year) visited workers in Ben Cat District, Binh Duong, who could not go home for the Tet holiday.

The tradition of giving lucky money to children sometimes causes embarrassment for their parents.

Violent clashes between Malian troops and Islamists continued into Monday in the streets of Gao following two suicide bombings in the city within the last few days.

A gigantic ceramic mosaic flag of Vietnam was built on Truong Sa Island--one so large that it was visible from space via satellite imagery such as Google Earth, and one that proclaims Vietnam’s sovereignty of Truong Sa archipelago.

Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan has just approved the master plan for preservation of the Work Geological Park in Dong Van Stone Plateau in 2012-2020.

British songstress Adele won the Grammy for best pop solo performance, the first award handed out during the main event on the music industry's biggest night of the year.

Finance Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has affirmed that the concerted combination of fiscal and monetary policies will help remove difficulties for businesses and accelerate corporate restructuring and the implementation of the 2013 budget goals.

Home guards and helpers earn increased fees if they are willing to work during Tet.

At least 22 people died in a stampede as pilgrims headed home from India’s giant Kumbh Mela festival, reports said Monday.

President Truong Tan Sang has called on the country’s scientists and intellectuals to make further contributions to the development of science and technology, which spearhead national industrialisation and modernisation.

Many Vietnamese women are finding various reasons to avoid returning to their parents-in-law's houses during Tet due to boredom and a fear of being lumbered with domestic work.

Having come to life about two centuries ago and becoming much loved by southerners of Vietnam, ‘Don Ca Tai Tu’ or Tai Tu music is deeply rooted in the culture and spirit of local people and is considered one

The annual Lunar New Year fireworks barrage in Beijing was notably muted Sunday following government appeals to reduce the smoky celebrations after air pollution rose to near catastrophic levels over recent weeks.

The tradition that the first person to enter a house on the first day of the lunar new year will decide that household's fortune has created a market for ‘lucky men’.

Vietnamese students in Cuba have gathered in Havana for their traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) celebration party.

The southern province of Bac Lieu presented 40 houses to poor households of the Khmer ethnic group in the locality on February 9.

British Prime Minister David Cameron conceded on Sunday that Scotland had what it takes to be an independent nation, but said it currently enjoyed "the best of both worlds", imploring it not to break the United Kingdom apart.

From now on, school curriculum in the central province of Khanh Hoa will include lesson chapters on Vietnam's Sea and Islands, with pictures and documents showing the country’s sovereignty.