Poor parents in Ho Chi Minh City spend Tet far from home
Friday, February 13, 2015, 18:02 GMT+7
To save more money for their young children in their homelands, many parents, who left other provinces, mostly in the north, to work in Ho Chi Minh City choose to have a lonely Lunar New Year (Tet) away from home even though they have not gone home for many years.
Though it costs around VND2 million (US$96) for a two-way coach ticket between Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, they accept missing their children and relatives during the Tet season, which arrives in a week.
Many of them have not gone home to visit their families for seven years.
