Around this time last year the 25-year-old was busy buying new clothes and ao dai and getting a new haircut and nails done to get ready to ring in the Year of the Ox. But this year she plans to spend the entire nine-day Tet (Lunar New Year) break, starting Jan.29, by staying at home in Bach Dang Ward in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem District. Linh has been unemployed for six months after her employer, a marketing firm where she had worked since graduating college, had to lay off staff to stay afloat. She is still unemployed, partly because she has been unable to find a suitable position but also because of pandemic blues. With savings dried up, she does not plan to buy anything for Tet. “I only set aside VND2 million ($87.72) to give my parents,” she says. People at a bus station in Hanoi, December 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Pham Chieu Traditionally during Tet , the country's biggest and by far most important festival, Vietnamese travel in their millions to their hometowns – with many living abroad too making their way back – to be with their family. It is a time for families to clean and decorate their… Read full this story
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