Overseas Vietnamese

TH-RUS, an affiliate of Vietnam's TH Group in Russia, on January 3 welcomed 2,380 HF purebred high-yielding milch cows to its newly-built farm in Efimtsevo village, Ulyanovsk district, Kaluga province of Russia.

The Vietnamese Student Association at Sejong University in Seoul, the Republic of Korea (RoK), has just successfully organized the year-end festival on the occasion of celebrating the 72nd anniversary of the traditional day of Vietnamese students and 30th anniversary of Vietnam – RoK diplomatic relations.

There are still three weeks before the Lunar New Year of the Cat 2023, but on many busy streets in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, the goods market to serve Tet for overseas Vietnamese has been very bustling.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Dang Xuan Dung on December 30, 2022 accepted the rotating chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Riyadh (ARC) from Thai Ambassador Darm Bootham.

Nearly 200 Vietnamese citizens were brought home freely from Japan on a flight of the national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines on December 29 ahead of the Lunar New Year Festival (Tet).

More than 100 objects, documents and photos were displayed to highlight the Vietnam – Laos relationship in Vientiane on December 29.

The northern Lao province of Oudomxay organized a ceremony on December 29 to repatriate ten sets of remains of Vietnamese soldiers and experts who laid down their lives in Laos.

An art performance program highlighting the Vietnam - Laos solidarity was jointly held by the Vietnamese Embassy in Laos, the Overseas Vietnamese Association in Vientiane and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on December 28 in Vientiane capital.

On December 28, the Party Organization and authorities of Vientiane, Laos held a ceremony to commemorate heroes and martyrs of the Laos-Vietnam combat alliance, who laid down their lives on the Keun battlefield in 1946.

The annual Homeland Spring (Xuan Que Huong), the biggest external and cultural event held for overseas Vietnamese on the occasion of the Lunar New Year festival, will take place in Hanoi on January 14.

The Vietnam Table Tennis Association in Russia has recently organized the Winter Table Tennis Tournament 2022 at the Hanoi-Moskva multifunctional complex in Moscow, Russia, to welcome the New Year 2023.

The Vietnamese community in the state of Selangor, Malaysia, has just organized the 2nd men's football tournament at Rean Sport Arena Sports Center, Klang, Selangor.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Morocco and concurrently Cote d'Ivoire Dang Thi Thu Ha presented the Credentials Letter from President Nguyen Xuan Phuc to President of Cote d'Ivoire Alassane Ouattara.

The second Vietnamese martial arts championship in Algeria was recently opened at Loucif Hamani Gymnasium in Tizi-Ouzou city.

A volunteer group of Vietnamese people in Moscow, Russia, recently organized a musical performance program in combination with giving gifts to orphans and disabled children at a boarding school at the Family Education Promotion Center “Our House' family”.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Italy Duong Hai Hung had a working session with Mauro Alboresi, Secretary of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) on December 22.

“Health handbook for Vietnamese workers in Japan” published by the Migrant Health Working Group (MHWG) in Vietnam.

A ceremony was co-organized by the Vietnamese Embassy and the Liaison Board of Vietnamese war veterans in Hungary on December 20 to mark 50 years of the signing of the Paris Agreement on ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam (Paris Peace Accords) (January 27, 1973) and the 78th anniversary of the Vietnam People's Army (VPA) (December 22, 1944 - December 22, 2022).

A delegation from the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia led by Ambassador Nguyen Huy Tang offered incense at the Vietnam - Cambodia Friendship Monument in Phnom Penh on December 21 to mark the 78th anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army (December 22, 1944 – December 22, 2022).

Nguyen Quoc Hung, a Vietnamese citizen, has been presented the Golden Lion Award of Russia's St. Petersburg city for his contributions to the prosperity of the people in Saint Petersburg.

A new building of the Department of SME Promotion under the Lao Ministry of Industry and Commerce, built with funding from the Overseas Vietnamese Association in Vientiane, was handed over to the Lao Ministry of Industry and Commerce on December 15.

Governor of St. Petersburg City Alexander Beglov on December 14 sent a congratulatory message to delegates attending the 12th National Congress of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) for the 2022-2027 tenure in Hanoi.

A ceremony was held to mark the 78th founding anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) (December 22, 1944 - December 22, 2022) and the 33rd All People’s Defence Festival (December 22, 1989 – December 22, 2022) by the Vietnamese Embassy in Venezuela and a local university on December 14.

The Vietnam Tennis Association in Russia (ViTAR) recently held a tennis tournament for the Vietnamese community in Moscow.

Vietnamese Ambassador to the Czech Republic Thai Xuan Dung, the Department for Community Affairs of the Vietnamese Embassy in the Czech Republic, and the leaders of the Overseas Vietnamese Association in the Czech Republic attended the Congress of the Vietnamese Branch in Chomutov for the term 2022-2026.

After a 2-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nghe Tinh fellow-countrymen association in Poland has just held a meeting to celebrate the Lunar New Year Festival of the Cat 2023 and debut the Executive Board of the Association for the term 2022-2027.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Vietnamese Embassy in India and India’s Council of External Relations on December 12 organized an art program named “Magical Night” in New Delhi to celebrate Vietnam Day in India 2022 from December 11-15.

The Consulate General of Vietnam in Kunming, the Overseas Vietnamese Association in Yunnan and the business community on December 9 presented a Vietnamese-Chinese friendship Pu-erh tea cake to President Ho Chi Minh’s relic site in Kunming city, the capital of Yunnan province.

A delegation of the Vietnamese Embassy and agencies beside the embassy, representatives of Vietnamese businesses, and the General Association of Overseas Vietnamese in Laos, on December 12 offered flowers to Lao President Kaysone Phomvihane and visited the museum of the President Kaysone Phomvihane in Vientiane.

The Vietnamese Student Association in the Republic of Korea (VSAK) on December 11 held the 8th annual conference of Vietnamese Young Scientists (ACVYS) 2022 at the campus of Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech).