Overseas Vietnamese

Consul General Nguyen Dang Hung on November 24 led a delegation of the Consulate General of Vietnam in Luang Prabang to congratulate the Party Committee, Government and people of Luang Prabang province on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of the National Day of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (December 2nd, 1975 - December 2nd, 2021).

The Association for Liaison with Overseas Vietnamese (ALOV) recently had a working session with the Department of Continuing Education under Ministry of Education and Training on issues related to the compilation contest of books and materials for teaching and learning Vietnamese for overseas Vietnamese.

The France - Vietnam Friendship Association (AAFV) on November 19 and 20 held its 17th Congress in Montreuil city, a suburb of Paris.

Consul General of Vietnam in Guangzhou Vu Viet Anh recently attended the 14th Dialogue between Consulates General of ASEAN countries in Guangzhou and Hainan’s Haikou City, China.

A webinar on promoting young Vietnamese intellectuals in the process of national digital transformation was recently held in Russia.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Ukraine Nguyen Hong Thach recently had a meeting with Mr. Garyaga Oleg Alexandrovich, Chief of Kiev’s Shevchenko District at the Embassy’s headquarters.

Vietnamese Ambassador to the Republic of Korea (RoK) Nguyen Vu Tung presented President Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s Friendship Order to Mr. Kim Sang Yeol, former Honorary Consul General of Vietnam in the Gwangju-Jeonnam region for his many active and effective contributions to promoting economic, cultural and educational exchanges, and strengthening the strategic cooperative partnership between the two cou

The Vietnamese Party and State always creates the best possible conditions for overseas Vietnamese (OVs) to contribute to their homeland's national construction and development, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said at a meeting with representatives of the Vietnamese community in Japan on November 23 night as part of his official visit to the country.

Vietnam wants to foster cooperation between its localities and Belgium’s Antwerp province in potential fields such as seaports, renewable energy, climate change adaptation and education, Ambassador to Belgium Nguyen Van Thao said during his working sessions with leaders of the Belgian province and the Port of Antwerp on November 22.

An event was recently held by the Russia-Vietnam Friendship Association in the Russian Federation’s Primorye province to celebrate its 50th anniversary at the Children's Palace in Vladivostok city.

The 2nd Vietnam Summit in Japan was organized on November 20-21 with the participation of nearly 1,000 Vietnamese people studying and working in Japan, together with Vietnamese intellectual associations in many parts of the world.

The State Commission for Overseas Vietnamese (SCOV) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November 20 held a seminar themed “Overseas Vietnamese with the sea and islands of Vietnam."

Nearly 1,000 Vietnamese intellectuals in Japan are gathering at a forum opened on November 20 to contribute opinions to help with national development in the post-pandemic period.

Vietnamese Ambassador to the UK Nguyen Hoang Long on November 18 presented his credentials to Queen Elizabeth II via a virtual ceremony.

Nearly 300 million VND have been raised by overseas Vietnamese in Italy to support repairing schools in central provinces which were hard-hit by natural disasters last year.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Thailand Phan Chi Thanh recently paid a working visit to Amata Nakorn Industrial Park of Amata Group in Thailand’s Chonburi province in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).

Dr. Nguyen Thuy Quynh, a Vietnamese senior lecturer at RMIT University in Australia, has just been voted by national daily newspaper The Australian as Australia's leading researcher on composite materials in 2021, with the researching theme of manufacturing fireproof materials to protect houses and other structures from being destroyed by forest fires.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Brazil concurrently Suriname Pham Thi Kim Hoa met the Vietnamese community in Suriname on the occasion of presenting her credentials on a working visit in the Republic of Suriname.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Bangladesh, the Bangladesh-Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry recently organized two meetings between Vietnamese and Bangladeshi businesses in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, and the port city of Chittagong to promote bilateral economic and trade ties.

The chef of the Japanese Embassy in Argentina Nobuyoshi Takagi on November 13 guided the staff and spouse of the Vietnamese Ambassador how to make Japan’s special dishes at the private house of the Japanese Ambassador in Buenos Aires.

In the Vietnamese community in Brazil, there is a name that everyone is proud of: Prof. Dr. Phan Van Ngan, a famous scientist in oceanography.

The Committee for Overseas Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) recently presented 750 gifts to Vietnamese Cambodians at a ceremony held at the Thuong Phuc-Kaoh Roka international border gates in Vietnam’s Dong Thap and Cambodia’s Prey Veng province.

Vice Chairman of the Committee for Overseas Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) Vo Thanh Chat on November 10 handed over 957 books to the library of Ho Chi Minh City University of Education.

Vietnamese Buddhist nun Thich Nu Gioi Tanh was recently honoured in Seoul, the Republic of Korea (RoK), for her outstanding engagement in charity activities to support people hurt by COVID-19 in the RoK.

For the first time, a Vietnamese language course has been co-organized by Brown University and Princeton University this semester in the form of online learning via Zoom.

At the invitation of Venezuela’s Ministry of Culture, the Vietnamese Embassy in Venezuela recently held a seminar with the theme "Overviewing outstanding features of Vietnam's publishing industry from the beginning to the modern age” in face-to-face and online formats.

An exchange was recently held by a Vietnamese charitable organization in Prague, the Czech Republic to spread its activities.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Ukraine organized the planting of trees at the project "Vietnamese natural and cultural garden" at the National Botanical Garden of Ukraine named M. G. Grishko, after being handed over the land, on November 5.

The official conference to establish the overseas Vietnamese branch in Japan’s Kitakyushu city will take place on December 26.

Nearly 130 overseas Vietnamese teachers from 20 countries in Europe and North America have participated in a training course on Vietnamese teaching for oversease Vietnamese teachers.