Overseas Vietnamese

The fellow-countrymen club of Vietnamese in Xieng Kohuang province (Laos) on February 1st organized a meeting at the beginning of the Lunar New Year of the Rooster to express the solidarity of the Vietnamese community in the province.

Vietnamese students at Pushkin State Russian Language Institute (the Russian Federation) have organized an art program to welcome the new spring and Lunar New Year Festival (Tet).

Vietnam hopes to increase the exchange of economic information with South Africa and enhance closer connectivity between businesses of the two countries, stated Vietnamese Ambassador to South Africa Vu Van Dung.

(CPV) - Each year, there are about 300 overseas Vietnamese intellectuals returning to Vietnam to work and participate in programs on research cooperation and implementation of science-technology and education-training.

(CPV) - Overseas Vietnamese worldwide have been organizing various activities to welcome Lunar New Year Festival (Tet).

The Winter Fair 2017 was organized on January 20th - 22nd in Canada to mark 150 years since the establishment of the Canadian Confederation and to welcome the traditional Lunar New Year Festival (Tet) of Asian countries.

Overseas Vietnamese communities recently organized events celebrating Lunar New Year (Tet).

A special art programme was held at Thong Nhat (Reunification) Palace in Ho Chi Minh City on late January 20th to welcome overseas Vietnamese (OVs) returning to enjoy the homeland spring.

Overseas Vietnamese in the Czech Republic gathered at an event to celebrate Lunar New Year 2017 hosted by the Vietnamese Association in collaboration with the Saparia Company in Prague on January 20th.

The Vietnamese Embassy in India on January 18th marked the 45th anniversary of Vietnam - India diplomatic relations (January 7th) and organized a Lunar New Year Festival (Tet) for the community.

(CPV) - The Vietnamese Embassy in Greece on January 16th organized a program to welcome the 2017 lunar New Year festival (Tet).

A ceremony was organized to hand over a marble bust of late President Souphanouvong, produced by Fine Arts and Technology Development Co. Ltd, to Kasone Phomvihane Museum in Vientiane on January 16th.

A delegation of the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia led by Counsellor Nguyen Manh Cuong visited, encouraged and presented gifts to nine households severely affected by landslide in Kompong Chomlong commune, Leurk Derk district, Kandal province, Cambodia, on January 16th.

The Lunar Year of the Monkey is closing and the Lunar New Year of the Rooster is coming, and overseas Vietnamese are organizing meetings to welcome an incoming New Year.

The Vietnamese Cultural Centre in the Republic of Korea (RoK) was officially put into operation on January 15th under the auspices of the Vietnamese Embassy in RoK to meet the aspirations and needs to enjoy culture of a large number of Vietnamese people living, studying or working in the country.

The first art and cultural exchange between the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and All-Union Leninist Young Communist League has organized in Moscow to foster the solidarity and friendship between the two unions.

Vietnam’s Embassy in Cuba has organised a Tet (Lunar New Year) 2017 festival for the Vietnamese community in Cuba.

The Vietnamese Film Day will take place at Lotte Cinepark, Lotte World Tower, in Jamsil, eastern Seoul, the Republic of Korea (RoK), from January 12th to 14th, 2017.

Remittances to Ho Chi Minh city reached USD5 billion in 2016, making up 57-58% of the amount for the entire country, up about 11-12% over a year earlier.

Vietnamese students studying in Cambodia organized a festival to welcome the Lunar New Year of the Rooster 2017, on January 7th.

An exchange camp between Vietnamese and Indian painters was organized at the headquarters of the Vietnamese Embassy in India, on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of Vietnam - India diplomatic relations (January 7th) and 10 years of strategic partnership establishment (July 6th).

International Sejong Table Tennis Tournament 2017 will be organized by the Vietnamese Student Branch at Sejong University, under the support of the Vietnamese Student Association in the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Sejong University on January 7th.

Andy Dinh, a Vietnamese origin man, has just been honoured by the famous Forbes magazine as one of Top 30 of talented game developers under 30 years old.

A golf tournament for overseas Vietnamese worldwide 2017 was organized by the State Commission for Overseas Vietnamese (SCOV) and the Overseas Vietnamese Golf Association in Thanh Hoa province on January 4th.

The Central Committee of the Vietnamese Buddhist Association in the Czech Republic organized an annual festival to welcome New Year 2017 at Sapa Trade Centre in the capital Prague on December 30th, 2016.

The Overseas Vietnamese Association and the Vietnamese Embassy in Angola on January 1st organized a ceremony to welcome New Year 2017.

The Thanh Hoa fellow-countrymen team, under the Vietnam Fellow Countrymen Friendship Association in Macau, made its official debut in Macau Special Administrative Region on January 1st.

The annual “Xuan Que Huong” (Homeland Spring) programme will take place in Ho Chi Minh City on January 20th with a variety of cultural activities to welcome overseas Vietnamese (OVs) back for the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

An award ceremony of the writing contest “Overseas Vietnamese Youth and Students with tasks of protecting Vietnam’s sea and island sovereignty” was organized by the Central Committee of the Vietnam Youth Federation and the Ministry of Information and Communications in Hanoi on December 28th.

Young Vietnamese students studying in the US, Germany, Russia and France chose diverse activities to welcome a peaceful and significant Christmas season.