(VOVworld) - Rana Dewan Rafiqul of Bangladesh wrote to VOV: “I enjoy your programs because they are like a window on all that happens in your country. Your radio station is like a bridge connecting all corners of the world”.

First on our show today, we’d like to thank you all for your greetings on our traditional Lunar New Year. We had a really warm holiday last week with all the best wishes you sent us and all the happy Tet activities and festivals around Vietnam.

(VOVworld) - The joyful atmosphere of the Lunar New Year festival, Vietnamese Tet, is all around. Here in VOV’s office, we have received a lot of beautiful greetings from listeners around the world between the Solar New Year and the fast approaching Lunar New Year.

A: This week, we have continued to receive Christmas and New Year cards with beautiful greetings from our dear listeners around the world. We would like to thank Peter Ng from Malaysia for his beautiful Lunar New Year card showing a yellow horse on a red background. According to Oriental culture, red and yellow represent luck, happiness and prosperity. As the Lunar New Year approaches, we wish you all the best for the Year of the Horse.

(VOVworld) - We’ve received many beautiful Christmas and New Year’s Greeting cards and sincere wishes from listeners around the world.

(VOVworld) - Let us enjoy this Christmas which has allowed us to share our joy with near and dear ones. Merry Christmas, dear listeners!

First on our show today, we’d like to wish you, our dear listeners throughout the world Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We’d like to thank you for supporting our broadcasts and websites and look forward to receiving more feedback from you.

(VOVworld) - Shortwave isn’t just for developing countries. A lot of our listeners in European countries and the US are still committed to shortwave broadcast to learn about other parts of the world. For many, it’s a hobby.

A: Dear listeners, as the year enters its final days, everybody in the world including the Vietnamese seem to be getting busier and more in a rush. The hurried atmosphere has invaded VOV’s offices, where we are busily preparing our year-end programs and New Year’s gifts for our listeners around the world.

(VOVworld) - To begin this week’s Letter Box, I’d like to welcome new listener Andy Chang of Davis, California, in the US.