Overseas Vietnamese

For the first time Vietnamese opera works by a Vietnamese origin composer have been presented at the Forfest International Music Festival in the Czech Republic.

The Overseas Vietnamese Association in Wilthen-Bautzen and surrounding areas held a meeting on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of their arrival to Germany under the Labour Cooperation Program between Vietnam and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in Wilthen city, Sachsen state, Germany, on July 1st.

The Vietnamese Student Branch at Chungnam University and the ICFood Company of the Republic of Korea (RoK) on July 2nd organized a football tournament for Vietnamese students to compete for the 9th annual ICFood Cup at Chungnam University Stadium, Daejeon city, about 170 km south of Seoul.

The first ASEAN Sports Festival was launched by ASEAN Embassies in the Netherlands at the University of Amsterdam in Amsterdam city, the Netherlands, on July 1st.

The French Academy of Sciences recently held a ceremony to welcome 13 new foreign members that it additionally appointed in late 2015, including Prof. Ngo Bao Chau.

The Vietnamese Embassy in India concurrently Nepal and Bhutan launched a movement "Towards the homeland’s sea and islands" on June 26th.

The first training course on massage, make-up and beauty by the vocational school “Dong Xuan Nails & Spa” recently opened at the Dong Xuan Trade Center in Berlin, Germany.

The Association of Vietnamese high-tech experts in Europe recently made its debut in Paris, France.

(CPV) - The 4th annual conference of Vietnamese Young Scientists (ACVYS 2017) was organized at Gachon University, Seongnam city, Gyeonggi province, the Republic of Korea (RoK), on June 25th.

Nearly 400 Japanese candidates at different ages attended the first national level Vietnamese language skill test held in Tokyo, Japan on June 25th.

The Overseas Vietnamese Association in Sekong province, Laos, held its third congress for the 2017-2021 period on June 19th.

"Greeting from Vietnam" is the theme of a canvas painting exhibition painter Hoang Tuyet Hanh opened in Prague, the Czech Republic, on June 19th.

The Vietnamese Students Association in Germany will hold a special summer camp (SiviDuc 2017) in Jena city to connect Vietnamese students throughout Germany on August 26th and 27th.

With outstanding academic results for the two consecutive years of 2016 and 2017, Vietnamese students at the Yaroslavl Air Defence Surface-to-Air Missile Institute, Russia, have left a profound mark on teachers and students of the institute.

A ceremony was held to mark the 92nd anniversary of Vietnam’s Revolutionary Press Day at the headquarters of the Vietnamese Embassy in Prague, the Czech Republic, on June 20th.

The Vietnamese Embassy, and associations and unions of overseas Vietnamese people in Ukraine have just established the tennis association of the Vietnamese community in the country, and opened the friendship tennis tournament across Ukraine in 2017.

A photo exhibition themed "Vietnam - country and people" was opened in Moscow, Russia by the “Photo Centre” Association on June 20th.

Immediately after the catastrophic accident on June 17th in Plzen city, Plzen province, the Czech Republic, ending the lives of two Vietnamese boys, the Vietnamese Embassy and Vietnamese community have taken measures to timely support and encourage the victims' family.

The first congress of the overseas Vietnamese community in India and Nepal was held to discuss the establishment of the General Association of Overseas Vietnamese in India and Nepal at the headquarters of the Vietnamese Embassy in New Delhi on June 18th.

Vietnamese culture has been introduced to Cuban friends at a gala night in Havana University held by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union’s chapter in Cuba.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Bangladesh and the Bangladesh-Vietnam Friendship Association recently organized a ceremony to launch the Bengali version from the English version of the book "How Ho Chi Minh wrote his testament" by Vu Ky and published by the World Publishing House in 2013.

A graduation ceremony and presenting graduation certificates to more than 500 students of the 2016-2017 course was solemnly organized at Ramat Negev Desert AgroResearch Centre in Central Israel on June 13th.

According to the Vietnamese Embassy in the United Kingdom (UK), until now there is no information of any Vietnamese citizens being victims of the fire in London on June 14th.

The first Vietnamese language class for children of the Vietnamese community in Malaysia has been open for nearly nine months, which is not a long time, but the model has shown initial success, creating the basis for replication in the coming time.

Faced with escalating diplomatic tensions between Qatar and the Gulf states, Vietnamese Ambassador to Qatar Nguyen Hoang has addressed the impacts of the crisis on the Vietnamese community in Qatar, measures to support and protect Vietnamese citizens in the country.

The Management Board of Orchid Fund in Singapore on June 10th organized a meeting to raise funds.

A summer camp for Vietnamese children and adolescents was recently held in Odessa, Ukraine, in early June.

The OV community in the Czech Republic paid special attention to the Czech President Milos Zeman’s official visit to Vietnam on June 6th - 8th, and expressed their delight at the achieved results.

A ceremony to end Vietnamese classes for Lao officials was organized at the Vietnamese Cultural Centre in Vientiane, Laos, on June 5th.

The Vitar-Incentra Open Summer 2017 was organized by the Vietnamese Tennis Association in the Russian Federation (ViTAR) on June 3rd - 4th.