According to Ho An Phong, Director of Quang Binh provincial Department of Tourism, a tourism stimulus programme kicked off on December 20, providing international visitors with a 10% price discount on all tourist products and services in the locality for one month.

A countdown party will be scheduled at the 29 March Square in Da Nang city to ring in 2019.

Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park will host a street arts and cuisine festival from December 28 to 31, featuring water puppetry performances, a music show, and food courts showcasing delicious indigenous dishes of the province. A count-down programme will also be staged there on the evening of December 31.

Meanwhile, a programme themed ‘Hoi An welcoming New Year 2019’ will be organized from December 24, 2018, to January 1, 2019, in Hoi An city.

During the programme, Nguyen Phuc Chu street will be colorfully decorated and booths will be set up along the street to bring a taste of Hoi An to vacationers. There will also be art performances, a dance contest, and a Taekwondo exchange between athletes from Hoi An and the Republic of Korea.

A gala night will kick off at 21:30 on December 31 to bid farewell to 2018 and ring in New Year 2019.

In Da Nang city, the year-end season is a time for diverse events and activities such as the Festive Season at the Coco Bay coastal entertainment and hospitality complex, the winter-spring in the Ba Na Hills tourism complex, and the Countdown Party at 29 March Square in the downtown area of the city.

According to the city’s tourism department, Da Nang is expected to welcome more than 158,000 arrivals during the Christmas and New Year holidays, including nearly 91,500 foreigners.

Lunar New Year holiday 2019 to last for 9 days

The 2019 Lunar New Year holiday will fall on February 4-8, which means it will span nine days including the two weekends, according to a newly approved proposal. 

 

Tet, Lunar New Year, an official holiday in California

California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill recognizing the Lunar New Year as a day of special significance.

 

Officials pay pre-Christmas visits to Thua Thien-Hue, Da Nang, Ha Nam

Christmas greetings were extended to Catholic dignitaries and followers in central Thua Thien-Hue province and Da Nang city, and northern Ha Nam province by senior officials on December 23.

 

Bac Giang’s Fatherland Front’s leaders visit Catholics on Christmas occasion

(BGO) - On Christmas occasion 2018, representatives of the provincial Fatherland Front and the Committee for solidarity of Catholics of Bac Giang province visited and offered Christmas greetings to the Catholic dignitaries and followers of the parishes of Thiet Nham in Viet Yen district, My Loc in Lang Giang district, Ngo Xa in Hiep Hoa district, Dai Lam and Tien Nha in Luc Nam district from 14 to 19 December.  

 

Christmas greetings sent to Catholics in Nam Dinh

Truong Thi Mai, head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation, on December 15 extended her Christmas greetings to Catholic dignitaries and followers in the northern province of Nam Dinh. 

 

Source: NDO