Overseas Vietnamese

The Consulate General of Vietnam in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (China) organized an event to celebrate the traditional Lunar New Year Festival for overseas Vietnamese on January 21st.

A festival will be organized on January 28th by the overseas Vietnamese community in Daejeon city, the Republic of Korea (RoK), to welcome the traditonal Lunar New Year (Tet).

Indonesia’s Ministry of Law and Human Rights on January 21st organized an exit and entry festival with the participation of more than 20 Embassies.

Vietnamese Chargé d'affaires a.i. in Chile Nguyen Minh Anh introduced the potential for cooperation between Vietnam and Chile in trade and tourism at a seminar in Chile on January 19th.

The Asian Marriage Association of Tao Yuan city, Taiwan, China, is a non-profit organization, established on September 14th, 2008, in order to help new immigrants integrate into Taiwanese society. The new immigrants are mainly Vietnamese brides getting married with Taiwanese men.

Kim Thuy, one of the most famous novelists writing in French in Montreal, Canada, has just published a book about how to cook Vietnamese dishes.

A delegation of Buddhists from Tu Dam pagoda from the UK presented 250 gifts to Van Kieu ethnic minority affected by recent floods and storms in Xuan Truong commune, Quang Ninh district, Quang Binh province, on January 15th.

After nearly two months, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hiep from Yokohama city won the crown at the final round of the Miss VYSA 2017 contest, taking place at Hollywood Hall, Roppongi Hills (Tokyo, Japan) on January 14th.

The Vietnamese Youth and Student Association in Japan (VYSA) organized an event to debut its executive board for the 2018-2019 term, and review and exchange on the occasion of the Lunar New Year of the Dog, on January 14th.

On the occasion of the Lunar New Year of the Dog, the Hung Yen provincial Party Committee, People’s Council, People’s Committee and Fatherland Front Committee will organize a program to meet overseas Vietnamese of Hung Yen province returning to the homeland.

Overseas Vietnamese in Cambodia organized an event to welcome the Lunar New Year of the Dog in Phnom Penh on January 13th.

Vietnam’s Consulate Office in Macau Special Administrative Region, China, was launched by the Consulate General of Vietnam in Hong Kong and Macau on January 5th.

An art program was recently organized by the women’s branch at the Moscow Trade Centre and Cuu Long Restaurant to raise charitable funds to support small Vietnamese businessmen seriously damaged by the fire at a Vietnamese market in Orenburg city, Russia, in early December 2017, help Vietnamese heroic mothers, children with disabilities and orphans in Vietnam.

The Overseas Vietnamese Association and the Vietnamese Embassy in Angola organized a meeting to welcome the New Year 2018 at the headquarters of the embassy in the capital Luanda on December 31st, 2017.

According to the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Homeland Spring programme 2018 will take place on February 7th, 2018 (the 22nd day of the last lunar month) at the Vietnam National Convention Centre in Hanoi.

The Vietnamese Embassy in China on December 27th organized an event to welcome New Year 2018 in Beijing capital.

Located in an ancient street Parnell in Auckland city, the largest economic and cultural centre in New Zealand, Asian Ruby is the first Vietnamese restaurant in the country to promote the cultural value of Vietnamese cuisine to local diners and international tourists.

The Ha Tinh fellow-countrymen association in Germany organized a meeting on the occasion of Christmas and to welcome New Year at Pacific Trade Centre on December 25th.

The delegation of the National Liaison Committee for former Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and military experts in Laos led by Major General Huynh Dac Huong, Head of the committee and former Commissar of the High Command of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and military experts in Laos, was warmly received by Lao Party General Secretary and President Bounnhang Volachith on December 26th.

The Vietnamese Embassy and Cuban Embassy in Mongolia organized a ceremony to mark the 57th anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam - Cuba diplomatic relations and meet former Mongolian ambassadors and diplomatic officers to Vietnam and Cuba through periods in the capital Ulan Bator on December 23rd.

More than 100 Vietnamese Catholics working in Malaysia gathered at the Holy Family Church in Kajang city (Selangor state) on December 24th to welcome Christmas 2017.

A delegation from the Vietnamese Embassy in Tanzania on December 22nd visited two businesses of the Vietnam's military-run telecommunication group (Viettel) on the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of the establishment of the Vietnam People's Army.

The Overseas Vietnamese (OV) Association in Mukdahan and Udon Thani provinces, on December 21st and 22nd organized a fundraising effort to help local people in difficult circumstances in localities in Thailand.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia, related agencies and organizations on December 21s laid a wreath and offered incense at the Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Monument in the capital Phnom Penh to mark the Vietnam People's Army Day.

An art exchange program was performed in Sydney, Australia, by artists from Vietnam Contemporary Art Theatre on December 20th.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Cuba, in collaboration with the Cuban Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFA), held a meeting on December 21st to mark the 73rd anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army and Vietnam’s All People’s Defence Festival Day (December 22nd).

Vietnam’s Military Attaché Office in Laos held a ceremony in Vientiane on December 21st to mark the 73rd founding anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army (December 22nd).

Vietnamese Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay Dang Xuan Dung presented his letter of credentials to Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez in the capital Montevideo on December 19th.

The music night themed "I love my country’s tongue" was performed by children from the Son Ca Club in the capital Prague, the Czech Republic, on December 16th.

German journalist Hellmut Kapfenberger has been presented with the Friendship Order from the President of Vietnam in recognition of his contributions to the two countries’ friendship and multifaceted cooperation.