Overseas Vietnamese

The Vietnamese Embassy in India on the afternoon of March 25th opened an online portal for Vietnamese citizens in India to register their information in the context of the uncontrolled COVID-19 epidemic.

The Ministry of Transport sent an urgent dispatch to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) on the suspension of international flights carrying Vietnamese citizens to the Hanoi-based Noi Bai Airport starting from 0:00am on March 26th to 31st.

Due to complicated development of COVID-19, overseas Vietnamese students have carried out various practical activities to prevent and control the pandemic and the Vietnamese Student Union Central Committee decided to postpone the 6th Vietnamese Youth Summit in Europe in Germany.

Vietnamese citizens in Laos and Thailand should keep calm and restrain going out and returning home at this time as the COVID-19 is developing complicatedly.

Many Vietnamese people in the US have called on the community to join hands to sew cloth face masks to present hospitals with the spirit “protecting doctors is to protect themselves”

Thirty five Vietnamese citizens, mainly students, have become stuck while transiting at Changi Airport, Singapore, due to unannounced flight cancellations by Singapore Airlines.

Among the thousands of Vietnamese laborers working in Romania, the majority don’t know the local language, so the Romanian newspaper Libertatea.ro posted an article in Vietnamese to provide updated information on the epidemic to Vietnamese workers in the Central European country amid the complicated development of COVID-19.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has warned Vietnamese citizens abroad of refraining from travels between countries and to Vietnam in current time, amidst the complicated developments of COVID-19.

The Embassy of Vietnam in Canada has asked Vietnamese citizens living here to avoid non-essential travel from home, particularly outside Canada or between parts of the country, as the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues spreading.

Vietnam's rubber companies in Cambodia are in need of recruiting 10,500 employees in 2020 - 2021, and are urgently in need of 9,000 employees.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Laos has recommended Vietnamese citizens in the country not to panic and rush home as no cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Laos so far.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, has implemented measures to prevent and control Covid-19 amid the pandemic’s complicated development with increasing number of infections and deaths in the country.

In order to boost prevention and control of the spread of Covid-19, the Vietnamese mission to the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and other international organizations in Geneva, Switzerland, has made an action plan on the principle of implementing COVID-19 prevention in accordance with the instructions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, authorities and local country.

China now has 20 higher education institutions training specialized Vietnamese language, maining in Yunnan, Guangxi and Beijing.

Due to serious development of Covid-19, the Vietnamese Embassy in France is opening an online citizen protection registration system for Vietnamese citizens.

Two Vietnamese - Americans died of Covid-19 in Washington State of the US.

Airports welcomed more than 1,090 passengers from Europe to Vietnam, including 999 repatriating Vietnamese, on March 18th.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Spain so far has not recorded any cases of Vietnamese citizens infected with Covid-19.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Russia has closely watched COVID-19 developments and required Vietnamese students to stay vigilant against the epidemic.

The Vietnamese Embassy on March 16th provided information to help the Vietnamese community in France to cope with the Covid-19 epidemic.

All passengers entering Singapore from or going through ASEAN countries (including Vietnam), Japan, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland within the previous 14 days will be required to be quarantined at their residence in Singapore as of 23h59 of March 16th (Singaporean time).

No Vietnamese nationals in the US have so far been reported to contract the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which is spreading in major US states and cities.

The Vietnamese Students' Association in the Republic of Korea (RoK) (VSAK) has swiftly taken measures to support students amid the complicated developments of the COVID-19 epidemic in the country.

The Embassy of Vietnam in Germany has closely stayed in touch with and provided guidance on COVID-19 prevention for overseas Vietnamese (OVs) and students in the European nation.

The Vietnam - Germany Strategic Partnership is developing and going into substance. To further strengthen bilateral cooperation, the Vietnamese Embassy in Germany is promoting cooperation with all states, especially those with strengths where Vietnam is in need.

Vietnamese Ambassador to France Nguyen Thiep recently chaired a ceremony to announce the decision of the Government of Vietnam appointing Mr. Nguyen Cong Tuoi Maurice Germain, a French citizen, as Honorary Consul of Vietnam in Marseille, with consular area of the whole province of Bouches-du-Rhône in southern France.

The Khmer - Vietnam General Association in Cambodia, the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia, and the Vietnamese Consulates General in Battambang and Sihanoukville, in collaboration with THADI Company, a member of THADO and Hoang Anh Gia Lai, started the recruitment program for Vietnamese origin people and Cambodians to work in export fruit planting farms with attractive salary and regime.

The Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Korea (RoK) has announced that it will apply an "online declaration system" since March 11th for foreigners residing illegally and wanting to return to their home country, including Vietnamese people.

There are seven Vietnamese people on the cruise ship Viking Cruise Journey, which is being isolated for Covid-19 testing.

A photo exhibition highlighting the beauty of Vietnamese landscapes, people and cultural identity is taking place in Budapest.