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 ...

Civil servants and state employees in Vietnam will enjoy nine consecutive days off for the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday in ...

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 ...

Welcoming TET, the Vietnamese lunar New Year, brings many celebrations that will be held across the local Vietnamese American community. The St. Joseph Church, 6450 Kathy Court, New Orleans, will hold ...

Tet is the Vietnamese New Year and, because it's based on the lunar calendar, the date changes every year. More than that, however, it's a time when Vietnamese people reflect on past years and pay ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...