State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on January 16 paid a lunar New Year (Tet) visit to Most Venerable Thich Tri Quang, supreme patriarch of the Patronage Council of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha on the occasion of the coming Tet festival.
A number of delegations from Lao agencies and localities have visited their counterparts in the central province of Nghe An ahead of the Vietnamese traditional New Year (Tet), the most important festival of Vietnamese people in a year, which falls in late January.
Vietnamese Ambassador to the Republic of Korea (RoK) Nguyen Vu Tung visited and extended Lunar New Year (Tet) greetings to two Vietnamese-Korean families on February 1, the first day of the Year of Tiger.
In Canada, Tet is an occasion to honour the immeasurable contributions by the Vietnamese-Canadian community, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in his greetings to Vietnamese expats living in Canada during a get-together on January 22.
US Ambassador to Vietnam Daniel Kritenbrink extended Tet (Lunar New Year) greetings to Vietnamese people in a creative and also trendy way this year, a rap song,