Over the years, Spring Homeland has become a familiar and much-anticipated gathering for Vietnamese communities around the world as the Lunar New Year approaches, reflecting the Party and State’s care and commitment to overseas Vietnamese while strengthening their ties with the homeland.
Over the past year, the Party and State have paid special attention to preserving and promoting Vietnamese abroad through supportive policies, book donations, teacher training, and the application of technology in teaching.
The activities include a Vietnamese language teaching training course for overseas Vietnamese teachers from August 13 to 28 in Hanoi, Ninh Binh, and Thai Nguyen.
SCOV Chairman Nguyen Trung Kien emphasised that caring for the Vietnamese community abroad has always been one of the key focuses of Vietnam's foreign affairs and national solidarity efforts. This priority has received close attention and guidance from the Party and State through a series of major policies over the past decades.
In late April, over 60 overseas Vietnamese (OVs) from 24 countries, plus local ethnic and religious leaders and intellectuals, boarded this seven-day adventure to meet the soldiers and folks living on Truong Sa in Khanh Hoa province and a DK1 platform on Vietnam’s southern continental shelf.
Each year, delegations of overseas Vietnamese are invited to visit Truong Sa (Spratly) as a gesture that underscores the deep national unity shared between Vietnamese at home and abroad. For many, it is not only a journey to the frontline of the nation’s sovereignty but also a symbolic return to their roots.
The 7th Overseas Vietnamese World Golf Championship is scheduled to take place in the northern city of Hai Phong from January 9 to 11.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (SCOV) wrapped up the 2024 training course on Vietnamese language teaching for Vietnamese teachers abroad, the 12th edition of its kind, in Hanoi on December 13.
After nearly a year of construction, the Thailand-Vietnam Cultural Street Gate was inaugurated in the Thai northeastern province of Nakhon Phanom on October 10 to the welcome of over 1,000 Vietnamese expatriates from across Thailand.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairwoman of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (SOCV) Le Thi Thu Hang visited the family of Eamon McMullen in Dublin on October 3 (local time), expressing gratitude for their adoption of a Vietnamese child named Ngo Huong Thao.
In celebration of the annual Vietnamese Language Day (September 8) for the overseas Vietnamese community, this year’s programme honouring the mother tongue will be held at the Hanoi Opera House on September 8 evening.
Vietnam and Laos share close cultural ties, with the Vietnamese language serving as a key bridge connecting the two nations.
The State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs kicked off the Vietnam Summer Camp 2024 for young overseas Vietnamese in Hanoi on July 16.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (SCOV) in coordination with the Hanoi Bar Association organised a conference on June 27 to popularise regulations and laws regarding the Land Law 2024 of Vietnam to overseas Vietnamese (OVs).
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (SCOV) held a press conference in Hanoi on June 3 to announce the results of the 20-year implementation of the Politburo’s Resolution 36-NQ/TW on OV affairs.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son attended the launch of the Business Association of Vietnamese in Korea (BAViK), the first official organisation representing Vietnamese businesses operating in the Republic of Korea (RoK), in Seoul on May 30.
