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Christmas season has arrived, and the festive atmosphere can be felt everywhere.

Christmas season has arrived, and the festive atmosphere can be felt everywhere, with both urban and rural areas echoing with the melodies of festive anthems.

Christmas is around the corner with twinkling pine trees and reindeer set up on main streets across Hanoi.

People nationwide can expect to enjoy celebrating Christmas Eve amid good weather conditions with temperatures forecast to be cool and pleasant with no rain.

Three Vietnamese films produced by HCM City filmmakers are ready for release during the Christmas and New Year holidays.

Indonesia will tighten security before, during and after Christmas and New Year holidays across the country amid possible terrorist strikes and other security disturbances.

Indonesian police have detained around 20 suspected militants as security steps up ahead of the Christmas and New Year holiday season.

Brightly lit, bustling streets, bedecked churches and buildings and groups of people enjoying the holiday season, marked the Eve of Christmas across the country.

Politburo member and permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh visited several religious organisations in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum on December 23 ahead of the Christmas Eve.

Indonesia will deploy some 180,000 security personnel ahead of Christmas and New Year holidays, local authorities said on December 22.

Indonesia’s anti-terrorism police on December 11 arrested 18 people with links to militant groups as an effort to strengthen security ahead of the Christmas and New Year 2018.

The Lantern Festival 2017 will open at Ho Chi Minh City’s Van Phuc Urban Area in Thu Duc district on December 12.

At least 33 people were injured in a blast in Hilongos town, the Philippines’ central province of Leyte on December 28, reported the country’s media.

As Vietnamese tend to spend more money during the Christmas season, many local enterprises tried all possible ways to satisfy there “God’s” demands.

The Christmas atmosphere weaved its way through every corner of the country on the night of December 24, from churches and parishes to lamp-lighted streets and colourfully-decorated shops.

Parishioners across the country are making the last-minute preparations for Christmas Eve, which is just around the corner.

Parishioners in the Red River Delta province of Ninh Binh have been eagerly preparing for the upcoming Christmas by practising art performances and decorating churches.

Art troupes and theatres in HCM City are offering new shows with a variety of interesting themes to celebrate the Christmas and New Year holiday season.

Foreign tourists who are in Vietnam on Christmas and New Year holidays are enjoying a warm and jubilant festive atmosphere as they have been offered numerous preferential programmes.

Christmas Eve music and other performances in Ho Chi Minh City on December 24 night, which will feature some big names, promise to provide something for everyone.