the Tet holidays ( the Lunar New Year)

With just over two months left until the 2024 Lunar New Year, several prominent spaces in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City remain unoccupied.

As the Tet holiday ( the Lunar New Year) is approaching, thousands of farmers and gardeners in the Mekong Delta are busy planting vegetable seeds and trying to take care of fruit trees and ornamental flowers to meet the Tet market demand.

HCMC has a rising demand for around 81,000 part-time and seasonal workers as the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) Holiday approaches, according to Deputy Director of the HCMC Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Huynh Le Nhu Trang.

Various sectors of commerce and services in HCMC have been actively searching for strategies to stimulate consumer spending, particularly during the peak periods of the New Year and the Lunar New Year in 2024.

The Saigon Railway Transport Joint Stock Company (Saratrans) on October 12 announced its train schedules for the Lunar New Year (Tet holiday) season.

Currently, localities across the country have plans to stock a glut of goods heading into the year-end shopping season and Lunar New Year 2024 to ensure stable prices.

The Department of Industry and Trade of HCMC on April 3 announced a market stabilization program for food and essential products in 2023 and during the lunar New Year (Tet) holidays in 2024.

A photo exhibition featuring nearly 200 Lunar New Year publication covers from 1865 – 2000 opened at the Vietnam Press Museum in Hanoi on March 2.

Due to the scarcity of sand supply plus the increased price of sand, many businesses found it a headache for their construction from the beginning of the Lunar New Year until now.

The first trading month of 2023 saw only 16 sessions due to the Lunar New Year holiday break, but nonetheless, Foreign Exchange Traded Funds poured in more than VND2,247 bln into the stock market.

The Politburo on February 6 held a meeting with former senior leaders of the Party, State and Vietnam Fatherland Front on the occasion of the 93rd anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and the Lunar New Year.

The City Party Committee - People's Council - People's Committee - Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Thu Duc City held the tree planting event for the 2023 Lunar New Year on February 5 in Thu Thiem Ward.

Bringing along an eager mind to enter the new Lunar year, the community of businesses in HCMC hope that the global economy will gradually recover, and that they will receive more orders in the future to overcome current financial difficulties.

Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HoSE) yesterday held a gong beating ceremony to officially open the first stock exchange session for the new Lunar year.

A delegation of officials of the Propaganda and Education Board of the City Party Committee paid visits to press agencies on the occasion of the Lunar New Year (Tet holiday) on January 30.

By January 30, almost of factories and enterprises in export processing zones and industrial zones in Ho Chi Minh City had resumed operations after the Tet holiday ( the Lunar New Year) with the rate of workers reaching about 95 percent.

Right at the first working week of the new Lunar year, many companies, especially those in the food processing industry, are accelerating their production to fulfill their export orders.

Several airlines decreased airfares as air travel plummeted.

Vietnam’s consumer price index (CPI) in January edged up by 0.52 % month-on-month, fueled by high consumer demand for the Lunar New Year or Tet which fell in the same month, the General Statistics Office said on January 29.

The border gates at Mong Cai City in the Northern province of Quang Ninh yesterday resumed their operation after a seven-day suspension of customs clearance for the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.