On April 1st, we’ll have new frequencies for the summer broadcast beaming to some areas in Europe and America. VOV’s delayed broadcast from Moosbrunn, Woofferton, and Dhabayya to Western Europe at 17:00 UTC will be on 9625 khz. VOV’s broadcast from Woofferton, and Cypress Creek to Eastern North America at 01:00 UTC and 02:30 UTC will be on 12005 khz, and to Central America and the Caribbean at 03:30 UTC on 6175 khz.

Each week when we receive letters and emails from listeners around the world, we find that some of the listeners care about political issues in Vietnam while a majority are keenly interested in Vietnamese cultural, historical, and social issues.

To begin this week’s Letter Box, we’ll say Hello to two new listeners, Andreas Lubnow of Germany and Muhammad Idrees of Pakistan. Welcome to VOV’s community of international shortwave listeners.

This week, we’ll begin with a letter from Daniel Toth, a 24-year-old student of economics from Slovakia who is studying at the University of Edinburgh. Though he only began listening to VOV last December, when he got his first short-wave radio, he has known about Vietnam since he was little.

Each week when we receive letters and emails from listeners around the world, we find that some of the listeners care about political issues in Vietnam while a majority are keenly interested in Vietnamese cultural, historical, and social issues. Dewan Rafiqul Islam, also known as Rana, President of the Friends’ Radio Club in Naogaon, Bangladesh, is a regular listener.

Happy New Year, dear listeners. I’m very glad to be with you on the first edition of the Letter Box after a week off for Tet, the Lunar New Year Festival. Tet is the biggest holiday in Vietnam and a few other Asian countries.

These days, the atmosphere of the traditional Lunar New Year, Tet, floods Vietnam. Vietnamese people, both inside and outside the country, are busy preparing for Tet, the biggest celebration of the year. As usual, part of the letters and emails sent to us are questions about Vietnam.

A flow of letters and emails poured into our office this week, bringing with them reception reports and beautiful New Year’s Greeting cards. In VOV’s English section, the festive atmosphere of the New Year Festival is reflected in colorful greeting cards from around the world.

As usual many of the letters and emails sent to us are questions about Vietnam. This week, Ratan Kumar Paul, a teacher and coordinator of the South Asia CRI DXER forum in Dakshin district, Indian state of Bengal, said he wants to know more about the Red River and pagodas in Hanoi.

This week, a series of New Year’s greeting cards from our listeners came to our office, confirming the arrived of the New Year’s greetings and gifts we sent.