Overseas Vietnamese

The Vietnamese Embassy in Germany on September 6th organized a solemn ceremony and reception on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the National Day.

The Argentine-Vietnam Cultural Institute (ICAV) and the Vietnamese Embassy in Argentine organized a talk on September 3rd about the country and people of Vietnam with students from the Faculty of Law, University of Buenos Aires, on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the National Day (September 2nd).

The Vietnamese community in Australia committed to contribute AUD500,000 to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to help refugees.

Raul Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Cuban Councils of State and Ministers, has congratulated the Communist Party, Government and people of Vietnam on the 71st National Day (September 2nd, 1945).

The Vietnamese embassy in China hosted a ceremony in Beijing on September 1st to celebrate the 71st anniversary of August Revolution and National Day (September 2nd).

The 71st National Day of Vietnam (September 2nd) has been observed by the Vietnamese Embassies in India, Laos and Mozambique.

An art program supporting Vietnam’s sea and islands was organized on August 28th at the Sapa Trade Centre in Prague, the Czech Republic.

The third football tournament for Vietnamese youth in Laos, Vientiane Cup 2016, opened on August 27th in Vientiane.

The second Vietnamese student and youth festival in Europe, known under the name "LUMOS Festival", took place with a lively and impressive atmosphere on August 27th - 28th in the city of Choisy-le-Roi, a suburb of Paris.

Overseas Vietnamese (OVs) in Germany on August 25th raised more than EUR5,000 (roughly USD5,600) to support people in mountainous and island areas in their homeland.

(CPV) - The Korean Cultural Center in Vietnam, Samsung Life Insurance and Korea Foundation for Women co-hosted a gathering in Hanoi on August 25th to review a project in support of children of multicultural families to visit their maternal homeland.

A magnitude-6.2 earthquake occurred in central Italy, near the city of Perugia, and killed 21 people on August 24th.

Overseas Vietnamese and local people in the Czech Republic on August 23rd met in Prague to support the recent ruling from the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in Hague, the Netherlands, on the Philippines’s lawsuit against China’s claims to the East Sea.

Vietnamese Consul General in Osaka, Japan, Tran Duc Binh, on August 22nd presented 57 Pianica instruments from students of Japan’s secondary schools to poor students in Ha Giang province.

Pho Phuoc and Tu Te pagodas in Bangkok, two long-standing pagodas of Vietnamese people in Thailand, were fitted with plates bearing their Vietnamese names on August 21st.

The musical play “Dream of the 21st century” with sparkling and impressive sound, colour and light, was performed at the Opera Helikon in Moscow (Russia) on August 18th.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Vu Hong Nam, Chairman of the State Commission for Overseas Vietnamese (SCOV), shared and listened to ideas and wishes of nearly 60 teachers teaching Vietnamese from all over the world on August 18th in Hanoi.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc stated that the Government highly values talents and offers them all possible support to contribute to national development while meeting President of the Association of Vietnamese Scientists and Experts Nguyen Duc Khuong in Hanoi on August 19th.

Anna My Linh Pham, 19, crowned “Miss Congeniality" of the Miss Vietnam Heritage Global 2016 pageant, said that she will spend her prize to carry out charitable activities.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan Nguyen Quoc Cuong and his spouse on August 15th presented VND200 million to Mr. Pham Gia Chi Bao, Head of the "Understanding about the Heart" fund to support surgery for 10 children with congenital heart disease in Vietnam.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Japan and Saitama prefecture have co-organized a program to connect local businesses and Vietnamese students.

The Vietnam General Confederation of Labor (VGCL) and the Golden Heart Foundation of Lao Dong newspaper received VND200 million from the overseas Vietnamese community in Ukraine to support the construction of the monument honoring Gac Ma heroes on August 15th in Hanoi.

A total of 65,776 Vietnamese people, including 23,946 women, went abroad to work in the first seven months of this year, according to statistics from labour export companies.

The opening ceremony of Vietnam Cultural Days in Thailand was organized at Thailand’s National Theatre in Bangkok on August 10th.

The second festival for Vietnamese youths and students in Europe will be held in Choisy-le-Roi city, in the outskirts of Paris, on August 27th-28th, according to the Association of Vietnamese Students in France (UEVF).

The State Commission for Overseas Vietnamese under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) on August 8th opened a training course on Vietnamese language for expatriate teachers.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Bulgaria on August 4th presented Bulgarian Lev1,200 of Ms. Nguyen Thi Dinh, an overseas Vietnamese entrepreneur in Bulgaria, to two Bulgarian students from the Vietnamese Faculty, University of Sofia, to travel to Vietnam to study and practice Vietnamese language.

Vietnamese cultural television channel NETVIET- VTC10 has officially had terrestrial digital broadcast in California, the US, since August 1st under the system of the television station KAZA TV, one in ten units with maximum coverage of over six million subscribers.

Overseas remittances transferred to Ho Chi Minh City reached USD2.5 billion in the past seven months, representing a 4.16 percent rise year on year.

A requiem for martyrs sacrificed in the cause of protecting sovereignty over the sea and islands of the nation was organized at Bao Quang pagoda, Kaysone Phomvihane city, Savannakhet province, Laos on August 2nd.