Tradition has it that during the first days of the Lunar New Year, Vietnamese families go to pagodas to pray for a year of good luck, health, happiness, and prosperity.
Apart from peach flower and marumi kumquat, Vietnamese, especially southerners, often celebrate the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival with yellow apricot blossom (Ochna integerrima) that symbolises good luck, wealth, good health, happiness and love.
Worshipping “Ong Cong, Ong Tao” (Land Genie and Kitchen Gods) is a long-standing custom of great significance as it symbolises the farewell to all bad things of the old year to help people relaxedly enter a new year of peace and happiness.
The 23rd day of the last month of every lunar year is when the Kitchen Gods return to Heaven to report to the Jade Emperor what happened on earth during the year.
The My Duc Hospital’s annual charity programme called Uom Mam Hanh Phuc (Nurturing Happiness) in Ho Chi Minh City will begin to accept applications for free IVF treatment on November 8.
As many as 2,300 runners joined “Running on Happiness Route” international marathon in the northernmost mountainous province of Ha Giang’s Meo Vac district on October 9.
An international marathon named “Running on Happiness Route” is scheduled to take place on October 9 in the northernmost province of Ha Giang’s Meo Vac district.
The performance of the 2021 Malaysia Happiness Index (MHI) score was at 6.48 out of 10, reflecting a happy level, according to findings by the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM).
International Children’s Day (June 1) is a festival for children and is celebrated very widely across Vietnam. The day also gives adults a reminder about taking better care and protection of their children and protecting the world for the future.
A decision of the Hanoi People’s Committee to allow the reopening of pre-schools from April 13 has received consensus from a majority of parents and teachers.
The Vietnam Women's Union (VWU) has upheld its pioneering role in working for women's happiness, the union's President Ha Thi Nga affirmed during an interview with Vietnam News Agency ahead of the 13th National Women Congress for the 2022 – 2027 period to be held in Hanoi on March 9-11.
For many years already, the Book Street Festival has become a “Tet specialty” of people in Ho Chi Minh City as spring arrives. Buying and reading books at the beginning of the year is not only a great pleasure but has also become a cultural activity, showing respect for knowledge and a culture of reading as modern technology takes hold.
Every day at 6am, Thuy, who lives in Hanoi’s Ciputra urban area, is busy washing vegetables to make detox juice for the whole family. Tying her hair neatly, she opens the refrigerator to take out vegetables that have been washed the previous day make juice and others to mix with oatmeal for breakfast with her husband and children.
A symposium named “President Ho Chi Minh with the aspiration for independence, freedom and happiness” was held via videoconference on August 31 by the Institute of Ho Chi Minh and Party leaders under the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and the President Ho Chi Minh relic site at the Presidential Palace.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has been working closely with relevant ministries and sectors to identify the most effective strategies to assist Vietnam in creating a safe and happy environment for mothers and children, including those in ethnic minority and disadvantaged areas.