record number of 1,000 banh chung

Hanoi (VNA)- A record number of 1,000 banh chung (square sticky rice) cakes will
be wrapped and boiled in one big pot this week and delivered directly to
underprivileged children on the occasion of the Lunar New Year festival.

Recipients will include children in orphanages and centres for handicapped
children and children infected with HIV/AIDS or suffering from other serious
diseases.

The record-setting banh chung cake pot is part of the Merciful Tet programme to
be held in Hanoi from February 5-7 with the support from non-governmental
organisations in Vietnam, the Hanoi Society for Preventing and Combating HIV/AIDS
and a number of foreign embassies in Vietnam.

The organisers expect that the programme will become an annual event for children
nationwide.-Enditem.





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