(VOVWORLD) - Let’s start off our Letter Box today with some information about the weather around Vietnam at the request of several listeners.

(VOVWORLD) - A regular listener, Richard Nowak of the US, said: “I enjoyed tonight’s show on 7315 khz, listening with a Hallicrafters SX-25 Super Defiant tube receiver attached to an indoor active loop. The overall reception was perfect with SINPO at all 5s.

(VOVWORLD) - This week we continued to receive congratulations on Vietnam’s National Day (September 2) and VOV’s 74th anniversary (September 7) from listeners around the world.

(VOVWORLD) - Thank you, listeners, for your congratulations and wishes for Vietnamese National Day, September 2nd, and Voice of Vietnam's 74th founding anniversary on September 7.

(VOVWORLD) - First on our show today, we’d like to thank our listeners around the world for greeting us on the occasion of Vietnam’s 74th National Day coming up on September 2nd and VOV’s 74th founding anniversary on September 7th.

(VOVWORLD) - This week we warmly welcome the return of Felix Gurevich of the US. He has been listening to VOV on and off over the past 20 years in the US. This week he contacted VOV again by sending 4 reception reports for VOV’s programs that he listened to while he was in Portugal on July 10th, 11th, 15th and 16th.

(VOVWORLD) - First on our show today, we’d like to welcome to VOV a new listener from the US, Mr. Robert Page, who reported an excellent signal for our show from July 28 on the frequency of 7315 khz.

(VOVWORLD) - First, we’d like to congratulate Muslims around the world on the occasion of the Eid al-Adha or the "Festival of the Sacrifice", the second of two Islamic holidays celebrated worldwide every year.

(VOVWORLD) - This week we sent our greetings to Saif Khan, a 10th grader and President of the Learner Listeners Zone in Bangladesh. He said he visits VOV5’s website regularly and listens to our program on shortwave on 7220khz from 16:00 to 16:30 UTC. Saif Khan said he enjoyed the interesting information about Vietnam broadcasting on shortwave or well documented on the website. The Current Affairs is educative and useful, he said.

(VOVWORLD) - This week, we received a lot of greetings regarding Vietnam’s Hoi An being honored by travel magazine Travel + Leisure and Google Doodle.