Overseas Vietnamese

President of the Vietnam Association of Victims of AO/dioxin (VAVA) Nguyen Van Rinh has sent a letter expressing support for Vietnamese-French Tran Thi To Nga who had filed a lawsuit against 26 US chemical firms for producing chemical toxins sprayed by the US army in the war in Vietnam, causing serious consequences for the community, her children and herself.

​The Vietnamese Embassy in Indonesia on September 28 reported the Vietnamese citizens registering to return home for the third time.

More than 230 Vietnamese citizens were brought home safely from Singapore on a flight of Bamboo Airways on September 28.

A full moon festival was recently organized by the Vietnamese Buddhist Association in Japan and Hana’s Charity at a community support centre in Chiba prefecture, where many Vietnamese citizens stuck in Japan due to COVID-19 are staying.

More than 350 Vietnamese citizens returned home from the US and Japan on September 26-27.

The Vietnam Student Association in the Republic of Korea (VSAK) said that to overcome the complicated development of the COVID-19 pandemic in this country, the VSAK has continued to carry out a face mask support program for Vietnamese students all over the Republic of Korea (RoK).

The Vietnamese Permanent Mission to the United Nations, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other international organizations in Geneva, and the Vietnamese Embassy in Switzerland, on September 26th held a meeting with overseas Vietnamese in Switzerland on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Vietnam’s National Day.

A Vietnamese language course for the 2020-2021 academic year was recently opened for Vietnamese children in the North Moravia region of the Czech Republic.

The governor of the Czech Republic’s Pardubice region on September 22nd organize an event to honour the Vietnamese community in Pardubice region for their contributions to help the local government and people in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

Amid the complicated development of the COVID-19 pandemic, overseas Vietnamese students in Japan faced many difficulties in their life and studies. However, they, in spite of being thousands of kilometers from the homeland, always feel the solidarity of spirit of Vietnam.

Nearly 270 Vietnamese citizens were safely bought home from Australia and New Zealand on a repatriation flight on September 23.

Nearly 230 Vietnamese citizens were repatriated safely on a flight conducted by Vietjet Air on September 22.

With the mission of supporting and accompanying Vietnamese students in the US during the process of personal development and job seeking, a career workshop at the cultural program named “Vong tay nuoc My” this year will be a bridge to connect overseas Vietnamese students with Vietnamese experts from 20 leading corporations and organizations in the world.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Austria on September 19 held a solemn ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the National Day of Vietnam.

The project board of the Vietnam Ancestral Global Day recently organized an special online short training course on journalism for overseas Vietnamese.

A meeting was organized by the Vietnamese Embassy in France on September 19 to meet 2nd-generation overseas Vietnamese who contributed to the success of a recent program calling for support to victims of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin in Vietnam.

Vietnam repatriated over 340 citizens from the US on a flight of national flag carrier on September 20.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Romania held a photo exhibition in Bucharest on September 18 to introduce the history, people and nation of Vietnam.

Winning the famous Pulitzer Prize in 2016, writer Nguyen Thanh Viet has been officially invited to join the Pulitzer Prize Jury, including 19 members of the world famous Pulitzer Prize.

A contest on compiling Vietnamese-language books and documents for overseas Vietnamese was launched by the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hanoi on September 16.

Vietnam brought home nearly 280 citizens from 10 European countries on a Vietnam Airlines flight on September 16-17.

Permanent Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son and his Venezuelan counterpart Ruben Dario Molina conducted the eighth deputy ministerial-level political consultation via a video conference on September 17.

The Foreign Ministry has asked Malaysia to help the Vietnamese Embassy arrange a consular visit to a group of Vietnamese fishermen detained in the country, to gain further information and take the necessary citizen protection measures, ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang said at a regular press conference in Hanoi on September 17.

The Hanoi People's Committee has just issued Official Dispatch 4436/UBNDKGVX on admission of Vietnamese citizens immigrating from abroad in the concentrated isolation ​​hotels with fees, according to Hanoi’s Department of Health.

A friendly golf tournament named "Vietnam Ambassador's Cup 2020" was organized by the Vietnamese Embassy in the Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Vietnam Delegation to the European Union (EU) and One to One Consult SA NV Company, at Hulencourt golf course in Brabant Wallon, Belgium, on September 14.

Nearly 380 Vietnamese citizens from the Republic of Korea (RoK) were brought home safely on September 15 on a flight of Bamboo Airlines.

A ceremony was recently held in the headquarters of Junge Welt daily newspaper to introduce the famous “Nhat Ky Trong Tu” (Prison Diary) by President Ho Chi Minh in German, which was translated from Chinese by two German citizens, on the occasion of his 130th birthday (1890-2020).

A ceremony was held by the National Congress of Argentina in Buenos Aires on September 14 to receive 20,000 medical face masks, which is a gift from the National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam in order to help the country fight against COVID-19 pandemic.

Vietnam recently repatriated over 240 Vietnamese citizens from Malaysia on a flight of Bamboo Airlines.

​The Vietnamese Embassy in Venezuela recently organized an online seminar on implementing and promoting export of health care equipment and material on COVID-19 prevention between Vietnam and Venezuela under the chairmanship of Ambassador Le Viet Duyen.