Overseas Vietnamese

The Vietnamese Embassy and the Overseas Vietnamese Association in Angola recently organized an event for the Vietnamese community to welcome the New Year 2019.

For the first time, Vietnam participated in the New Year Fair held for 2019 at the Taipa Houses Museum on Taipa island, Macau Special Administrative Region, China.

A program “Welcome New Year of the Pig 2019” was organized by the Overseas Vietnamese Association in Teplice city, Ustesky province, North Czech Republic, to look toward the traditional Lunar New Year Festival of Vietnam, preserve and promote the cultural tradition among the Vietnamese community and introduce Vietnam’s cultural values to local people.

The final round and award ceremony of an art competition of the Vietnamese community in Moscow and surrounding areas was recently organized at the Cultural Palace of Moscow State University Of Railway Engineering (MIIT).

The Vietnamese Embassy in India on December 28th held a golf tourney at the Delhi Golf Club’s course to promote the image of Vietnam in general and the country’s golf tourism in particular.

The champion of a prestigious MasterChef contest in Poland is a student studying finance named Ola Nguyen.

A conference on connecting overseas Vietnamese with localities, co-organized by the State Commission for Overseas Vietnamese and the Nghe An Provincial People’s Committee, was opened in Vinh city, Nghe An, on December 27th.

A delegation attending a conference connecting overseas Vietnamese with localities on December 27th offered flowers and commemorated President Ho Chi Minh in front of his statue at Ho Chi Minh Square in Vinh city, Nghe An province.

A delegation from the Overseas Vietnamese Committee of Ho Chi Minh city and the Khmer Vietnamese Association in Cambodia recently presented more than 500 gifts to Vietnamese origin and poor families in Boribor district, Kampong Chhnang province, Cambodia.

The final round of the Vietnamese Football Tournament was recently organized in Kanto, Japan, by the Football Association of Vietnamese in Japan.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Tanzania Nguyen Kim Doanh congratulated the officials and staff of Viettel Tanzania Public Limited Company (Halotel) and Viettel Work Company in Tanzania on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of the Vietnamese People’s Army and 29 years of the All-People National Defence Day.

In 2018, the Hai Duong fellow-countrymen association in Macau (China) has raised nearly VND200 million to support families in difficult circumstances and victims of natural disasters in Vietnam.

The Overseas Vietnamese Branch in Mlada Boleslav city in the Central Czech Republic recently organized the 2nd Congress for the 2019- 2022 period.

(CPV) - The State Commission for Overseas Vietnamese under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Hanoi People’s Committee will co-organize the homeland spring program 2019 at the National Convention Centre on January 26th (21st day of last lunar month of the year of the dog).

Vice Chairman of the State Commission for Overseas Vietnamese under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Luong Thanh Nghi has led a delegation to visit the Naval High Command and send gifts from overseas Vietnamese to officials and soldiers who are on duty to protect the sea and islands of the nation, on the occasion of the Lunar New Year of Pig 2019.

A ceremony was organized by the Vietnamese War Veterans Association in the Czech Republic to mark the 74th anniversary of the Vietnam People's Army (December 22nd, 1944 - December 22nd, 2018).

A conference on President Ho Chi Minh was organized by the Vietnamese Embassy in India and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on December 17th on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Uncle Ho officially visiting India (1958-2018).

A seminar on trade promotion of Vietnamese goods and introduction of Vietnamese agricultural products to leading businesses of Belarus’ Grodno province was co-organized by the Vietnamese Embassy in Belarus and Belarus’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry on December 14th.

Vietnamese painter Hoang Ha Tung organized an individual exhibition titled Hanoi - Hoang Ha Tung - Kampen in Kampen city, the Netherlands, from December 12th -19th.

An inauguration ceremony of a plant processing canna rhizomes named Namxiem Dong Rieng plant was recently held in Namxiem village, Phaxay district, Xiengkhuang province, Laos, by the Minerals and Metallurgical One Member Limited Company under the Company Of Economic Cooperation (COECCO) of Vietnam.

An open friendship football tournament 2018 was recently organized by the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia to mark the 40th anniversary of the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge regime (January 7th), supporting the idea of ​​Vietnamese youth in Cambodia and Cambodian youth.

The Czech - Vietnamese Association will continue to work to protect the legitimate interests of the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic, promote the community’s integration process into the local society, and strengthen the friendship and understanding between the two peoples.

Helpful career guidance, career prospects, and the latest knowledge and technology are topics that successful young people in Japan shared at the exchange on career connections organized in Tokyo by Vietnamese Professionals in Japan (VPJ).

The Vietnamese Embassy in India recently organized a meeting with the Vietnamese community in India and Nepal.

A two-day conference was held in the Algerian capital Algiers to officially establish the Vovinam League of Arab country bloc on December 7th and 8th.

Representing the Government of Vietnam, Ambassador Ha Kim Ngoc and the diplomatic delegation attended the funeral ceremony for US President George H.W. Bush, held in the Capitol building in Washington DC.

The Vietnamese Cultural and Cuisine Day was organized by the Vietnamese Embassy in South Africa on December 5th to promote the culture, tourism potential, famous landscapes and special cuisine of the S-shaped country.

A ceremony was organized to debut a Ukrainian poem work by two authors, Tachiana Dziuba and Sergey Dziuba, translated into Vietnamese by two overseas Vietnamese poets, Nguyen Huy Hoang and Do Thi Hoa Ly, at the scientific library named V.G Korolenka in Chernhigov province, Ukraine.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Japan organized a ceremony on December 4th to present the Labor Order of the State President to the collective and individuals of Japan’s National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM) for outstanding achievements in protection and health care for people and high-ranking leaders of Vietnam.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Laos on December 4th organized a conference to review the activities of the overseas Vietnamese community in Laos in 2018 and work out an operational plan for 2019.