Tet gift delivered to Truong Sa soldiers and people
PSNews - New Year gifts include essential goods and traditional food for Tet, donated by organisations and businesses such as packs of glutinous rice, Dong leaves to wrap Banh chung, a type of square glutinous rice cake which is a delicacy at Tet, kumquat trees, and apricot blossom trees.
Recently, the Navy Region 4 vessels carrying officers, soldiers, and journalists as well as New Year gifts departed from Cam Ranh military port in the central province of Khanh Hoa for the Truong Sa (Spratly) Islands.
It has become an annual tradition for the Naval Region 4 High Command to organise voyages to the Truong Sa archipelago to replace and withdraw troops, as well as to send New Year wishes to the islanders every year.
As scheduled, the vessels will dock at islands and islets in the district, delivering supplies and gifts to people and soldiers stationed there on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet).
New Year gifts include essential goods and traditional food for Tet, donated by organisations and businesses such as packs of glutinous rice, Dong leaves to wrap Banh chung, a type of square glutinous rice cake which is a delicacy at Tet, kumquat trees, and apricot blossom trees.
Earlier, on December 20, 100 gifts were presented to personnel and policy beneficiaries at the Navy Region 4 High Command, as part of an annual programme run by the online newspaper of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnam People's Navy High Command.
