Overseas Vietnamese

A seminar held in both in-person and online formats for Vietnamese students and female scientists in France on March 12 to share their stories during the process of pursue of their passion for science.

“Vietnam Festa★Online - Kanagawa is a friend of Vietnam,” an online exchange among Vietnamese and Japanese youngsters was held in Tokyo on March 12, the first of a series of events towards the Vietnamese Festival in Kanagawa.

The cultural and musical event named “Vietnam Soul” recently organized at the Department of Asian and North African Studies, Italy's Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, including various performances by students who learn Vietnamese language.

The State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (OV) Affairs (SCOV) on March 11 sent an open letter asking Vietnamese people’s associations in some European countries to continue helping with the evacuation of those from Ukraine.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) is collecting opinions on the Prime Minister’s draft decision on approving the national action plan on green growth for 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Hungary has supported 680 Vietnamese fleeing war-ravaged Ukraine as of March 12.

Vietnam's representative agencies and associations of Vietnamese in Romania are making efforts to prepare for a March 12 flight bringing citizens who had to flee from Ukraine home, the Embassy of Vietnam in the country has announced.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Thailand is urgently coordinating with sides involved to support the repatriation of four crew members of the Vietnamese-flagged Huy Hoang ship, which encountered an accident on March 8.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Russia on March 9 held an in-person and online seminar aiming to ease difficulties of the Vietnamese community in the country.

Vietnamese associations in Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Germany and Hungary have pledged coordination in citizen protection and support for the Vietnamese community in Ukraine.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA)’s Department of Overseas Labour Management sai that Taiwan (China), Japan and the Republic of Korea (RoK) have re-opened their labour makets to Vietnamese labourers and apprentices.

The National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines said that its second flight, the third repatriation flight of Vietnam under the campaign of bringing home Vietnamese citizens from Ukraine has been licensed.

Vietnam and Luxembourg have agreed to promote co-operation in the economic, financial, and investment fields to utilise incentives from the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) and the impending EU-Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA).

Many overseas Vietnamese in Japan, especially the graduates of Japanese universities, have received timely and effective assistance from GoWell, a local employment service company, over the past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The second flight to bring home Vietnamese people evacuating from war-ravaged Ukraine is scheduled to arrive in Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport at 5:15 am on March 10.

The majority of the Vietnamese people in Ukraine have been safely evacuated from war zones, and authorities will continue working to have appropriate plans, according to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Quang Hieu.

A Vietnam Airlines flight carrying 287 Vietnamese people leaving Ukraine arrived at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport at noon on March 8.

Vietnamese representative agencies in Ukraine and neighbouring countries have received about 3,500 Vietnamese people who fled from war areas in Ukraine.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Russia in coordination with the Vietnamese association in southern cities of Russia on March 7 welcomed 20 Vietnamese citizens evaculated from war zones in Ukraine to Russia.

The Ministry of Health has instructed that Vietnamese people repatriating from Ukraine do not need to test for SARS-CoV-2 and have the confirmation of having been vaccinated against or having recovered from COVID-19 before boarding planes to Hanoi.

Vietnamese Ambassador to France Dinh Toan Thang recently visited and worked at the French Agricultural Fair (Salon Internationale de l'Agriculture - SIA), at the invitation of the National Agency for Agricultural Products and Seafood under the French Ministry of Agriculture (FranceAgriMer).

Vietnamese Ambassador to the Czech Republic Thai Xuan Dung and the staff of the embassy recently paid a visit and attended the New Year Gala Dinner organized by the Overseas Vietnamese Association in Ústecký province.

About 800 Vietnamese people have been safely evacuated to Romania from Ukraine as of March 6 morning, according to incomplete data.

Two flights repatriating Vietnamese people form Ukraine will depart from Romania and Poland this week.

Given that more and more Vietnamese people are being evacuated from war zones in Ukraine, the Vietnamese Embassy in Hungary has considered citizen protection a key task and required all of its staff to get ready around the clock.

Vietnamese carrier Bamboo Airways freshly announced that it will conduct its first repatriation flight for Vietnamese citizens in Ukraine on March 9.

National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines will conduct the first flight bringing Vietnamese citizens in Ukraine home on March 6 morning.

A business dialogue with overseas Vietnamese (OV) investors was held in Hanoi on March 4 in both in-person and online format.

After arriving in New York to start his working term as Head of the Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations (UN), Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang met and cordially greeted Ambassadors and Heads of the Permanent Missions of Laos and Cambodia to the United Nations.

The Vietnam Trade Office in Algeria recently introduced the "Handbook of business and investment in Algerian market in 2021".