The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has proposed a 9-day Tet holiday for 2025, spanning from Jan. 25 to Feb. 2. The ministry is seeking feedback on the proposal from various ministries ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. In this 1968 file photo, smoke rises over battle-scarred Saigon during the Tet ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X In a Saigon street, South Vietnam’s police chief raised a gun to the head of a handcuffed Viet ...

The Tet Offensive, an eight-month-long surprise attack launched by communist forces in Vietnam 50 years ago, remains fresh in the minds of many veterans who survived it. On Saturday, about 15 men ...

Follow Thanh in northern Vietnam as he prepares for Tet in a remote rural area. From harvesting vegetables for the market to making bacon, wrapping traditional cakes, and celebrating the festival, ...

Bill Rider considered himself a grizzled veteran of the Vietnam War that late January night in 1968 when the first waves of North Vietnamese soldiers and their Viet Cong allies attacked U.S. and South ...

More than five decades later, the horrific memories from the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive come rushing back to Bob Selby of Oyster Bay as if they were yesterday. The brazen 11 p.m. attack on his fire ...

When I first journeyed to Vietnam at the age of 22, fresh out of college over two decades ago, the romantic allure of Hanoi captivated me. My arrival coincided with the Mid-Autumn Festival, a time ...

Annually, around the beginning of spring, Vietnamese advertisers enter into a crucial war for hearts and pocketbooks: Tet, the lunar new year celebration that is both an emotional and a spending peak ...

Hayslip is an author and speaker. She lives in Escondido. In Vietnam, anticipating Tet — the Lunar New Year — was similar to children in the West waiting for Santa Claus to come down the chimney. Of ...