The event, jointly organised by the Cultural Diplomacy and UNESCO Affairs Department under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the ASEAN Women’s Circle of Hanoi (AWCH), was among the first cultural exchange activities of the ASEAN Year 2020.

Participants join local residents throughout the process of making banh chung.

It aimed to bolster exchanges between nations and introduce Vietnamese traditions and customs to foreign friends, thus tightening solidarity and friendship between ASEAN countries as well as promoting Vietnam’s images.

The event also featured a contest to make banh chung (square glutinous rice cake), with foreign ambassadors, charge d’affaires and their spouses joining local residents throughout the process of making this indispensable dish for Tet.

Italian Ambassador to Vietnam Antonio Alessandro said the event helps participants understand more about Vietnamese people’s Tet, the largest yearly festival in the country.

Overseas Vietnamese celebrate traditional New Year

Overseas Vietnamese in the US, Australia and Thailand have organised a wide range of activities to celebrate the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

Firework shows to light up Bac Giang skies on Lunar New Year 2020's Eve

(BGO) - Two spectacular fireworks will be displayed at 11 sites in the city and centers of 10 districts in the northern province of Bac Giang to welcome the Lunar New Year 2020.

Free toll for Bac Giang – Lang Son expressway on Lunar New Year occasion

(BGO) – The General Director of BOT Bac Giang – Lang Giang Company Vu Minh Hoang on January 5 informed that the People’s Committee in Lang Son province agreed with the investor’s proposal to operate the expressway with free of charge during the occasion of Lunar New Year (Year of the Rat). 

Hanoi welcomes 81,000 visitors on New Year’s Day

Hanoi capital city hosted more than 81,000 visitors on New Year's Day 2020, up 8.9% as compared to the same day in 2019, according to the city’s Tourism Department.

Ethnic groups celebrate New Year with various activities

Numerous cultural and arts activities are taking place at the Vietnam National Villages For Ethnic Culture And Tourism in Hanoi from January 1-31, helping visitors more understand traditional cultural features and celebrations of the new year of ethnic groups.

Source: VNA