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Fireworks to light up HCM City skies on New Year’s Eve

Residents in Ho Chi Minh City can welcome the Year of the Cat with firework displays at six locations on the Eve of the Lunar New Year, Vietnam’s largest national holiday.
Fireworks to light up HCM City skies on New Year’s Eve ảnh 1Fireworks to light up the skies over six HCM City locations. (Photo:VNA)
HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Residents in Ho Chi Minh City can welcome theYear of the Cat with firework displays at six locations on theEve of the Lunar New Year, Vietnam’s largest national holiday.

The 15-minute shows, funded by businesses and organisations, will start atmidnight on January 21, said deputydirector of the municipal Department of Culture and Sports Vo Trong Nam. 

A high-altitude firework display will be held at the Thu Thiem Tunnel in ThuDuc city and five low-altitude displays will be set off in the Dam Sen CulturalPark in District 11, Thu Duc city, Can Thanh commune in Can Gio district, CuChi and Binh Chanh districts.

For the Lunar New Year holiday, HCM City has planned a variety of cultural andarts activities including a photo exhibition on the beauty of HCM City’s dailylife as well as photos of war memories; a Tet CakeFestival to be held at the History Ethnic and Cultural Park; and the annual HCMCity Spring Flower Fair to be held from January 16-27 at Tao Dan Park.

In addition, the Nguyen Hue Flower Street, the city’s most visited attractionduring Tet, will open from January19-26. This year’s 600-metre flower street extends from the President Ho ChiMinh Statue in front of the city People’s Committee building down Nguyen Hue streetto Ton Duc Thang street.

The capital city of Hanoi has also announced firework displays at30 locations across the city to welcome the Lunar New Year 2023.

Some other localities, including Lam Dong, Da Nang, Ha Nam, and Thanh Hoa, havealso announced plans for holding firework displays to welcome the new year./.
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