After Vietnam removed its two-child limit, pharmacy worker Nguyen Thi Nguyet Nga says she still has no plans to have more ...

Associate Professor Bui Xuan Dinh at the Institute of Ethnology under the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences said that lucky money, known in Vietnam as "lixi", started as a Chinese custom to express ...

The coming year is the Year of the Dog, so many have been on the hunt for coins and notes with images of dogs on them to give as li xi, lucky money that adults give to children and loved ones for the ...

while Vietnam's Tết Nguyên Đán goes for up to a week. Lunar New Year in South Korea, known as Seollal, runs for three days. The lucky money inside varies from $1 to several hundred and ...

In Vietnam, families hang ‘lucky money’ packets on their trees at Tet, for these farmers, the tree itself is ‘lucky money’. We are walking through fields ablaze with pink peach blossoms on specially ...

Preparing for Tết is a big deal: homes are cleaned and decorated, special foods like sticky rice cakes (bánh chưng and bánh ...

As an excited youngster, I couldn’t wait to receive my lucky money. It may have not been much, but when that red envelope arrived I knew I was in for good luck, good health, good results in school and ...

A Vietnamese peasant who has lived below the ... He used 100,000 dong (about £2.50) to buy lottery tickets from what he called 'lucky money' that had been given to him by relatives to celebrate ...

And then there is the Vietnamese saying Loc bat tan huong (Luck not to be ... The well-meaning couple presented rice and ‘lucky money’ to the poor in their commune, but once the news of their good ...

Vietnam police said Monday they had arrested 21 people allegedly involved in a money-laundering ring that moved $78.5 million of criminal cash between the Southeast Asian country and neighboring ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The 17th annual celebration of Vietnam Veterans Day honored Vietnam ... and I consider myself lucky to be here,” Asbrock explained. Sophie Selwood, speaking on behalf ...

“At that time, it was more about making money to support my ... a little twist” to traditional Vietnamese food and “make it his own way.” Huynh said Lucky Corner’s original location ...