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HCM City ceremony to commend outstanding overseas Vietnamese

Ho Chi Minh City will hold a ceremony on April 20 to honour 33 outstanding collectives and 17 individuals of the Vietnamese community abroad, according to the city’s Committee for Overseas Vietnamese.
HCM City ceremony to commend outstanding overseas Vietnamese ảnh 1A view of some buildings under construction in HCM City (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City willhold a ceremony on April 20 to honour 33 outstanding collectives and 17individuals of the Vietnamese community abroad, according to the city’sCommittee for Overseas Vietnamese.

The activity aims to recognise and encourage theexpatriates with prominent achievements in assisting Vietnamese citizens inproduction and business activities, scientific researches, medicine,educational and training cooperation, and social and charitable activitiesbetween 2018 and 2020.

They include Assoc. Prof and Dr Vu Minh Khuong,a senior lecturer at the Singapore-based Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy;Dr Nguyen Duc Thai, a Vietnamese in the US now lecturing at the HCM CityUniversity of Medicine and Pharmacy; Dr Nguyen Huu Le, a Vietnamese inAustralia and Chairman of the TMA Solutions company; and Bui Van Tuan, Chairmanof the Delta E&C Japan.

More than 5.3 million Vietnamese people areliving in 130 countries and territories worldwide. Overseas remittances intothe country reached 15.7 billion USD in 2020. 

In particular, the remittances into HCM Cityreached a record high of 6.1 billion USD last year, up over 15 percent from2019. The figure stood at 1.45 billion USD in the first quarter of 2021, up 10percent year on year./.
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