The best quality glutinous rice is chosen and green beans are husked. Mixed in is lean and fat pork sliced and seasoned with different kinds of spices, including cardamom. When all the ingredients are ready, the cake wrapping process begins. The cake should have a nice lozenge shape and each cake should have three layers – rice, green beans, and pork. … [Read more...] about New Year celebrations of Giay ethnic people in Ha Giang province
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Lunar New Year’s Eve: Vietnam’s party time
This is where the mobile phone networks go into meltdown five minutes past midnight and your drink order is a ten-minute wait. It’s the moment you either thank your lucky stars that you’re single or in a relationship and not the best time to start something new or dump something old! (That comes later when you’re capable of thinking straight again…) … [Read more...] about Lunar New Year’s Eve: Vietnam’s party time
OVs in Russia celebrate traditional Lunar New Year
Earlier, overseas Vietnamese in some Russian localities such as Ufa and Ekaterinburg held Tet celebration activities such as wrapping “chung” cakes (square glutinous rice cake – a traditional Tet food) and organising culture and art programmes to welcome the Year of the Rat./. … [Read more...] about OVs in Russia celebrate traditional Lunar New Year
Traffic accidents kill 23 on first day of Tet holiday
Hanoi (VNA) – Thirty-one traffic accidents occurred, killing 23 and injuring 15 others on January 23 (the 29th day of the 12th lunar month), the first day of the week-long Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday. They included 29 road accidents and two railway ones, according to the Traffic Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security. All the numbers of accidents, deaths and injured people increased compared to the first day of the 2019 Tet holiday. Also on January 23, traffic police nationwide dealt with 3,264 cases breaking road traffic rules and 363 other violations on waterways, revoking 526 driving licences./. … [Read more...] about Traffic accidents kill 23 on first day of Tet holiday
No Tet holiday for health workers fighting new pneumonia virus
Nguyen Tri Thuc, director of the Cho Ray Hospital, which is treating two patients from Wuhan who have tested positive for the nCoV virus, said the hospital has conducted a general anti-bacterial procedure for its entire premises as of Thursday morning. The hospital’s Tropical Diseases Department has also given preventive medication to health staff who have been in contact with the patients. … [Read more...] about No Tet holiday for health workers fighting new pneumonia virus
