As the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday is approaching, people in Ho Chi Minh City and across the country are opening their wallets to buy special ornamental plants and imported flowers to decorate their homes for the nation's biggest festival.
The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines plans to offer nearly 600 flights during the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday from January 9 to February 2 this year, marking a year-on-year increase of 12 percent.
All construction on roads and pavements in Hanoi must be halted or completed by January 10 to ensure traffic safety for the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, the municipal transportation department said.
On the occasion of Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, which will fall on January 25, businesses in Ho Chi Minh City will provide consumers with many specialty products such as herbal chicken, herbal pork, and Banh Chung cake with multiple fillers.
National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines announced on December 12 that it is offering nearly 70,000 tickets priced from 199,000 VND (8.65 USD) per flight, exclusive of taxes and fees, to serve travelling demand during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.
Vietnamese trade unions have announced plans to support workers during the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, especially those who have not returned home in years.
For 2020 lunar new year holiday, 22 local and North-South returned trains with some 287,000 tickets are planned to operate to fulfill passengers’ increasing demand.
Pork supply remains adequate at the moment; however African swine fever outbreaks might cause supply difficulties during the year-end period and lunar New Year holiday.
The total goods retail sales and consumer service revenue surpassed 1.18 quadrillion VND (over 50.8 billion USD) in the first quarter of 2019, up 12 percent year on year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).
The central province of Thua Thien – Hue welcomed over 770,000 tourists in January – February, including more than 382,000 foreigners, up 8.62 percent year-on-year, according to the provincial Tourism Department.
Disbursement of public investment was low in the first two months of this year partly due to the impacts of the nine-day Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, according to a Ministry of Finance report.
Almost all industrial sectors in Hanoi witnessed a decline in their production in February, partly due to the nine-day Lunar New Year holiday, according to the city’s Statistics Office.
The yield of Government bonds (G-bond) has continued to decline and hit seven-month lows as the US Federal Reserve (Fed) seems unlikely to hike interest rates and the domestic monetary market has shown positive movements.
More than 1 million tourists visited the northern province of Quang Ninh between February 2 and 14, a record number of visitors during a Lunar New Year holiday (Tet).
The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate at 22,913 VND per USD on February 18, down 2 VND from the last day of previous week (February 15).
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