Overseas Vietnamese

The Canada-Vietnam Society (CVS), which gathers Vietnamese expats living in Canada, held a get-together in Toronto on January 18th to celebrate Tet, Vietnam’s traditional New Year, which is less than a week away.

A delegation of over 100 overseas Vietnamese (OVs) offered incense to Kings of the Ly Dynasty at the Do temple in Tu Son township, the northern province of Bac Ninh on January 18th, as part of the “Homeland Spring 2020” programme.

Vietnamese expatriates and businesses in Cambodia gathered at the Lunar New Year (Tet) celebrations in Phnom Penh on January 17th, as the biggest Vietnamese traditional festival only about a week away.

A meeting was organized in Vientiane on January 14th by the Vietnamese Embassy and the General Association of Overseas Vietnamese in Laos to celebrate the Lunar New Year Festival (Tet) of the Rat.

Standing Vice Chairwoman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Tong Thi Phong called at the Vietnamese Embassy in Canberra and met with representatives of the Vietnamese community in Australia on January 12th.

150 poor Vietnamese families living in Phnom Penh were presented gifts worth 3,000 USD from Viettel Cambodia (Metfone) company on the occasion of Lunar New Year Festival (Tet) on January 13th.

Standing Vice Chairwoman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Tong Thi Phong called at the Vietnamese Embassy in Canberra and met with representatives of the Vietnamese community in Australia on January 12th.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Japan held a meeting for overseas Vietnamese on January 10th to celebrate the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet), the biggest holiday in Vietnam.

The Consulate General of Vietnam in Vladivostok, Russia, organized an event for the overseas Vietnamese community to welcome Lunar New Year Festival (Tet) of the Rat.

As many as 100 poor families of Vietnamese origin in Phnom Penh were presented gifts by representatives from Sacombank Cambodia, a subsidiary of the Sai Gon Thuong Tin Commercial Joint Stock Bank on January 8th before the upcoming Lunar New Year festival (Tet).

A woman suffering serious burns in a farm fire in Ramenskoye town of Moscow Oblast, Russia, on January 7th has been identified as a Vietnamese citizen, according to Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang.

A science research workshop was recently organized by the Vietnamese Student Association and the Association of Vietnamese Youths and Students in the Czech Republic at Charles University in Prague.

A celebration was recently held by the Mutual Support Fellow-Countrymen Association in Macau Special Administrative Region (China) for the overseas Vietnamese to welcome early Lunar New Year Festival (Tet).

Artists from the Italy-Vietnam cultural bridge association impressed visitors at the Dancin’BO festival, taking place in Bologna in Italy’s northern region of Emilia-Romagna from December 27th, 2019, to January 5th, 2020.

The Consulate General of Vietnam in Shanghai recently organized a meeting to welcome New Year 2020 for the overseas Vietnamese in Shanghai, China.

Overseas Vietnamese in Australia and many international friends gathered to welcome Lunar New Year (Tet), the most important annual festival for Vietnamese, at a celebration held by the Vietnamese Embassy in the host nation on January 4th.

Nguyen Thu Trang, a third-year student of the Tokyo International University, has won the crown of a beauty contest held by the Vietnamese Youth and Student Association (VYSA) in Japan.

Various activities were recently organized by Vietnamese communities in the Czech Republic and Angola to welcome New Year 2020.

The delegation of the Vietnamese Embassy in Indonesia recently attended the Denpasar Street Festival on Bali island to promote tourism and promote investment and trade in Vietnam.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Bangladesh Pham Viet Chien recently presented his credentials from President Nguyen Phu Trong to President of Bangladesh Md. Abdul Hamid.

The General Association of Vietnamese People in Laos will further coordinate with Vietnamese representative agencies to accelerate the settlement of legal papers for Vietnamese in Laos in 2020.

Remittance flows into Vietnam are expected to reach 16.7 billion USD in 2019, Vice Chairman of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs (SCOVA) Luong Thanh Nghi cited statistics of the World Bank at a meeting with the press in Hanoi on December 26th.

On the occasion of Christmas and New Year 2020, overseas Vietnamese associations in localities of the Czech Republic visited and presented gifts to unfortunate people.

Hundreds of Vietnamese Christians in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia and surrounding areas held a ceremony to welcome Christmas on December 24th.

A Vietnamese booth introducing handicraft products was opened at the India International Mega Trade Fair (IIMTF), which took place in Kolkata city in West Bengal State from December 13th-25th.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Belarus recently hosted a workshop themed "Developing and strengthening cooperation between Vietnam and Belarus in the field of tourism - investment".

A delegation including representatives from the Consulate General of Vietnam and the Khmer – Vietnam Association in Preah Sihanouk province and Vietnamese business community led by Consul General Vu Ngoc Ly paid tribute and laid a wreath to Vietnamese voluntary soldiers at the Cambodia-Vietnam friendship tower in Preah Sihanouk province, Cambodia on December 20th.

The Overseas Vietnamese in the Republic of Korea (RoK) organized an event to welcome the New Year of 2020 on December 22nd in Seoul, with the participation of nearly 500 overseas Vietnamese people living, working or studying there, and RoK friends.

Vietnamese embassies in many countries continued to host events to mark the 75th founding anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army and took the occasion to introduce the 2019 White Paper on Vietnam National Defence.

United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix has lauded Vietnam’s contributions to the UN, especially via peacekeeping missions.