An open-air music show titled Chuc Mung Nam Moi (Happy New Year) will open on New Year’s Eve in District 1’s Le Duan Street. It will feature young singers and dance groups from local cultural clubs in the rural districts of Thu Duc, Nha Be and Hoc Mon.

Singers and theatre artists perform in music shows to usher New Year.

A music gala will be staged at 8pm on December 30 and 31 at the Youth Cultural House on Pham Ngoc Thach Street, with 30 musicians and singers performing with traditional instruments. Puppet artists and magicians will also be included.

More than 10,000 people are expected to attend.

District 11’s Dam Sen Park and District 9’s Suoi Tien Park, two of the city’s biggest parks, are promoting the holiday spirit through entertainment programmes.

Dam Sen Park’s visitors will enjoy for free a programme of music, dance, comedy, circus and puppet shows, which began on December 29 and runs through January 1.

Suoi Tien Park will offer free tickets, candy and toys to disadvantaged children from welfare facilities around the city, while young artists of the Small Drama Theatre will stage a new comedy to serve theatergoers during the holiday.

The comedy entitled Dep Bat Chap (The Beauty) is a production by young scriptwriter and director Bui Quoc Bao, who uses both Eastern and Western styles to feature the play’s theme about urban women and social problems. It will be staged every Saturday and Sunday in January at 5B Vo Van Tan Street in District 1.

Jetstar Pacific adds Hanoi – Can Tho flights during Lunar New Year

The budget carrier, Jetstar Pacific, will increase flights linking Hanoi and the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on Airbus A320s during the upcoming Lunar New Year festival 2019. 

 

Central region to host diverse activities to celebrate New Year 2019

Cities and provinces in Vietnam’s central region will host a wide range of activities in celebration of New Year 2019.

 

Flower and culinary festival held in Da Mai ward to welcome New Year 2019

(BGO) – On the occasion of the upcoming New Year 2019, the People’s Committee and Women’s Association in Da Mai ward plan to organize a flower and culinary festival at Rose Garden Film Studio in Thanh Mai Residential Group, Da Mai ward (Bac Giang city). 

 

New Year 2019’s bonus increases 3.3 percent

(BGO) – According to the Division of Salary and Social Insurance (under the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs in Bac Giang province), 149 out of 219 enterprises which submitted the report to the Division have the plan to provide New Year’s bonus to the laborers.

 

No pork shortage for Lunar New Year festival

There will be no shortage of pork in the months approaching the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday despite an increase in demand, Nguyen Xuan Duong, Acting Director of the Animal Husbandry Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said. 

 

Source: VNA