Cheap Tet Celebration Urged in Vietnam
Impoverished Vietnam has called for cheap celebrations this month at Tet, the lunar new year, with no lavish parties or firecrackers.
Instead of slaughtering cattle and giving expensive gifts, people should take up new holiday habits like visiting disabled soldiers or heroes of Vietnam’s wars, the Communist Party newspaper Nhan Dan said.
Workers should stop the normal practice of taking off extra days around Tet, celebrated this year on Jan. 29, and factories should not give big new year’s bonuses, it said in an editorial.
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