Weekly highlights: Carp release ritual on Kitchen Gods’ worshipping day marks start of Tet

The “Ong Cong, Ong Tao” (Land Genie and Kitchen Gods) worshipping ritual, held on the 23rd day of the 12th lunar month, which falls on January 22 this year, is also considered the start of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival – the biggest and most important traditional holiday of Vietnamese people.

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Here are selected events from January 17-23, 2025:

- Party chief askes for removing institutional barriers to the development of science and technology

- Prime Minister's participation at the World Economic Forum Davos shows Vietnam's commitment to int'l cooperation

- Vietnam and the Czech Republic establish strategic partnership

- US anti-dumping duty removed from Vietnamese fish fillets

- Carp release ritual on Kitchen Gods’ worshipping day marks start of Tet./.

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