Preparations have been made for the establishment of federation of Vietnamese people in Germany, as a preparatory congress was organised in Berlin on December 17 to discuss the federation’s action framework and regulations.
Potential for cooperation between Vietnam and Germany remains huge with new opportunities, as Germany is currently an economic locomotive of the European Union (EU), and also Vietnam’s largest trading partner in the region, according to Ambassador Vu Quang Minh.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Germany hosted a get-together in Berlin on August 28 for representatives of the Vietnamese community in the host country on the occasion of the 77th National Day (September 2) and the 77th traditional day of the diplomatic sector (August 28).
There remains great potential for cooperation between Vietnam and Germany’s Saxony state, especially in vocational training, recruitment of Vietnamese skilled workers, green and renewable energy development, climate change response and tourism, Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany Vu Quang Minh told Saxony Premier Michael Kretschmer.
Vietnamese expatriates and businesses in Cambodia gathered at the Lunar New Year (Tet) celebrations in Phnom Penh on January 17, as the biggest Vietnamese traditional festival only about a week away.
Representatives from 150 poor Vietnamese families living in Phnom Penh on January 13 received lunar New Year gifts totally worth 3,000 USD from Viettel Cambodia (Metfone) company on January 13.
A delegation from the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia and other representative offices of Vietnam in Phnom Penh led by Ambassador Vu Quang Minh offered incense to martyrs at the Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Monument on July 26 on the occasion of the 72nd Day of War Invalids and Martyrs (July 27).
Representatives from the Vietnamese Embassy, the Khmer-Vietnamese Association and Vietnamese businesses in Cambodia on July 10 afternoon visited Vietnamese families in Phnom Penh affected by the blaze which took place early morning the same day.
The Kien Giang University in Vietnam’s southern province of Kien Giang and Cambodia’s Chea Sim Kamchaymear University inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the Cambodian capital city of Phnom Penh on May 24.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Cambodia Vu Quang Minh, as entrusted by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, presented more than 700 gifts to Vietnamese and Cambodian families in difficult circumstances in Kampong Chhnang and Kampong Thom provinces, Cambodia, on February 4, ahead of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.