Images from Lunar New Year celebrations in Australia, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines among others

 

A Chinese-Vietnamese man's take on the Lunar New Year custom of having a "lucky" person as the first...

Festivities abound as there will be endless cultural and religious festivals across the country after the Lunar New Year

 

Secret tricks to bring you a new year full of joy and luck.  

Mut dua (candied coconut ribbons) is among the most loved specialties for Vietnam’s biggest festival

There will be 15-minute displays from midnight February 8 at various spots in Hanoi, HCMC and Da Nang

 

It sells everything needed for the offerings tray to propitiate the gods and ancestors

The company will pay its workers just 30 percent of their $121 Tet bonus prior to the major holiday.

 

Vietnamese celebrate "Kitchen God Day" in preparation for the Lunar New Year, or Tet, celebrations.

They are cooked on wood fires in clay pots for 15 hours