A Tet get-together is held by the Embassy of Vietnam in Slovakia for Vietnamese expats on January 22. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnamese embassies have beenbusy organising celebrations of traditional New Year – Tet – for Vietnameseexpats across the world.
On January 22, the Embassy in Kuala Lumpur hosteda gathering for Vietnamese people living in Malaysia, during which AmbassadorTran Viet Thai extended Tet greetings to the Vietnamese community.
He praised outstanding Vietnamese role models who have madegreat contributions to the community last year.
In a similar event in Algiers, Ambassador Nguyen Thanh Vinh said overseas Vietnamese people remain an inseparablepart of the country. He highly spoke of the Vietnamese expats’ contributions tothe homeland and valued their mutual support for each other during thepandemic.
Another get-together was held by the Embassy of Vietnam in Slovakiain the capital city of Bratislava on the same day, which gathered a largenumber of Vietnamese expats and associations in the European country.
In his opening remarks, Ambassador Nguyen Tuan thanked the Vietnamesecommunity for helping reinforcing the friendship between the two countries anddeveloping Vietnam.
Meanwhile, Ambassador to the UK Nguyen Hoang Long attended awarm Tet gathering held for the first time by the Vietnamese Society in Oxford,bringing together Vietnamese students and PhD candidates as well as professorsand lecturers from the University of Oxford.
Long said he expects the partnership in education andtraining between Vietnam and the University of Oxford will grow further,particularly in research./.
The Vietnamese community in the US and US friends gathered at the “Xuan Que huong” (Homland Spring) programme that was held online on January 21 (Washington time) in Washington on the occasion of the coming Lunar New Year (Tet), the most important festival of Vietnamese people in a year.
In Canada, Tet is an occasion to honour the immeasurable contributions by the Vietnamese-Canadian community, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in his greetings to Vietnamese expats living in Canada during a get-together on January 22.
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on January 23 presented gifts to workers of Thu Duc city in the southern hub of Ho Chi Minh City, on the threshold of the traditional lunar New Year.
Vietnamese people in Russia, Israel, and Mexico marked the coming Lunar New Year (Tet) with ceremonies organised by the embassies of Vietnam on January 22.
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A Tet get-together is held by the Embassy of Vietnam in Slovakia for Vietnamese expats on January 22. (Photo: VNA)
