Vietnam’s Lunar New Year 2023 Featured in Foreign Media
This cat in Quang Tri province is voted by people on social media as the most beautiful compared to cat mascots in other localities across the country. Belgium’s French-language television channel BX1 has broadcasted a reportage entitled “Vietnamese people celebrate Tet in Woluwe Saint-Pierre” about the Lunar New Year (Tet) that the Vietnamese Association in Belgium and the Vietnamese Embassy in Belgium organized on January 22 in Brussels. The reportage said that about 400 Vietnamese people attended the traditional Tet festival in Woluwe Saint-Pierre district where not only Vietnamese people but also Belgians said to each other “Chuc mung Nam moi” (Happy New Year), as citied by VNA. Visitors to the festival had a chance to enjoy Vietnamese traditional foods and fruits, particularly grapefruit – an indispensable fruit during Tet celebrations. The channel’s reporter introduced “banh mi” (Vietnamese bread) – a specialty whose name is included in the Oxford Dictionary. The...