Overseas Vietnamese

A number of troupes from the Tuoi Tre (Youth) Theater will perform abroad in early 2016.

A Dong Nai-based maker of Banh Chung - a type of traditional rice cake for New Year celebrations in Vietnam - has completed procedures to ship abroad 40 tonnes of the cake to serve the Overseas Vietnamese community, during the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

The Vietnamese Youth and Student Association in Japan (VYSA) welcomed the Lunar New Year of the Monkey 2016 in Tokyo on January 17th.

The Vietnamese Community Liaison Committee in Penang, Malaysia on January 17th organized a festival to welcome the Lunar New Year of the Monkey (Tet) 2016.

According to the Vietnamese Embassy in Indonesia, as of this moment, there have been no Vietnamese casualties in the bombings and gunfights in central Jakarta on January 14th.

"Vinh Phuc homeland Spring 2016" will be organized for overseas Vietnamese, on the occasion of the Lunar New Year of the Monkey 2016, by the Vinh Phuc provincial administration at 8am on February 3rd at Song Hong Thu Do Hotel at No. 189, Lam Son street, Tich Son ward, Vinh Yen city, Vinh Phuc province.

Ms. Tran Thi Chang, Deputy Head of the Liaison Committee for Overseas Vietnamese cum chairwoman of the Vietnamese women’s club in Malaysia, was born in 1962 in a poor family in Ha Nam province. At five years old, she suffered the pain of losing her father when he died in Tay Ninh battlefield in the resistance war against the US.

Only four years old and having studied the piano just for 10 months but Evan Le is regarded as a child prodigy by fans when they watch him playing music by Mozart, J.S. Bach, Beethoven and Alberto Ginastera.

Vietnamese businesses have performed well in Laos and contributed to local economic growth over the last five years despite the lingering impact of the global economic crisis, said a report delivered at a congress of the Vietnam Business Association in Laos.

Vietnam’s Consulate General in Luang Prabang, Laos, on January 7th opened the construction project for headquarters and staff housing for its representative agencies in Luang Prabang.

The relationship with Vietnam is a priority in Indonesia’s regional policy, Speaker of Indonesia’s Regional Representative Council (Senate) Irman Gusmand said on January 7th.

Vietnamese businesses investing in Cambodia received compliments on their contributions to economic growth of the homeland in 2015 at a get-together hosted by the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia in Phnom Penh on January 8th.

An exchange between organizers of an exhibition on Vietnamese Cultural Space and visitors was held on January 5th in Berlin.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany Doan Xuan Hung and officials of the Vietnamese Embassy on January 1st visited and wished Happy New Year to associations of Vietnamese people in Germany on the occasion of New Year 2016.

The Homeland Spring program 2016 will feature various activities organized on January 31st, 2016 (as of December 22nd of the lunar year of Goat) in Hanoi by the State Commission for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs, under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Hanoi city People’s Committee.

The 5th Congress of the Vietnamese Business Association in Germany was organized on December 27th at Viethaus, Berlin, Germany to review the operation in the 4th tenure and elect the New Executive Committee and operation orientation of the 5th tenure.

A meeting with overseas Vietnamese businessmen was organized by Vinh Phuc province and the State Commission for Overseas Vietnamese on December 28th in FLC Vinh Thinh Resort.

On cold Christmas nights in the US when it sometime drops below zero degrees Celsius, Vietnamese youths and students in California gathered together to prepare gifts to present to the homeless.

The Vietnamese Embassy and the Lao Embassy in Malaysia organized a friendly exchange on the occasion of coming New Year 2016.

Connecting overseas Vietnamese (OV) investors with small and medium enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City will be one of the southern hub’s top priorities to prepare for the international integration, especially when free trade agreements come into effect.

Various activities to mark the 71st anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) have been organized abroad.

National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung talked with the Vietnamese embassy staff and expatriates in China on December 23rd during his official visit to China.

The 6th Congress of the Vietnamese Youth and Student Association in the Czech Republic was organized on December 19th in Prague.

Chef Nguyen Van My is working at Saigon Cape Town restaurant and reporters of The world and Vietnam report have had an interview with him about Vietnamese cuisine in Cape Town.

The Hanoi-Moscow trade centre, part of the Hanoi-Moscow Complex (Incentra) was inaugurated in Moscow, Russia on December 19th.

The Vietnamese military attaché agency in Laos hosted a ceremony on December 18th to celebrate the 71st founding anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army and the 26th All People's Defence Festival.

The Mexican Defence Ministry wants to launch cooperation channels in new fields with Vietnam, including facilitating visits to share information and experience, its Secretariat Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda has said.

Tran Dieu Linh, 13, a talented young Vietnamese pianist in Moscow, Russia, has won first prize at a competition for young pianists throughout the Russian Federation.

The administration of Aichi prefecture has supported the Vietnamese Alumni Association in Aichi prefecture (VARONET) and the Vietnamese Students and Youth Union in Central Japan (VYSA Tokai) to organize an annual exchange program with Japanese businesses.

A program supporting local women married to citizens of the Republic of Korea (RoK) is underway in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang’s Vi Thanh city from December 18th-20th.