Chol Chnam Thmay is a New Year festival of the Khmer ethnic people according to their traditional calendar. The festival fell on April 14-16 this year. In Soc Trang province, over 400,000 Khmer people celebrated the traditional New Year festival with joy and fun thanks to improved livelihoods.
Boxer Nguyen Ngoc Hai defeated Campee Phayom of Thailand with a knock-out (K.O) victory at Vietnam's largest professional boxing tournament LEAD: Born to Lead to win the vacant World Boxing Association (WBA) Asia South super lightweight title in Ho Chi Minh City on March 25.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a meeting of permanent Cabinet members in Hanoi on January 27, speaking of new energy of the nation following Tet (Lunar New Year), the biggest festival in Vietnam.