The Cuu Long University in the southern province of Vinh Long held an event to welcome the traditional New Year festival for Cambodian and Lao students as well as its Khmer lecturers and students.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has sent a letter of greetings to Khmer people in Vietnam on the occasion of Chol Chnam Thmay, their traditional New Year festival.
Students of Cambodia and Laos in Ho Chi Minh City on April 12 joined a get-together held by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) of the city on the occasion of their New Year festival.
Politburo member and Permanent Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Thanh Man on April 10 visited and extended his greetings to dignitaries of the Mekong delta province of Soc Trang’s Patriotic Clergy Solidarity Association on the occasion of the Khmer people’s Chol Chnam Thmay (New Year) festival.
Despite formidable challenges in the host nation, the overseas Vietnamese (OVs) in Cambodia have stood shoulder by shoulder to overcome difficulties by promoting the national tradition “the good leaf covers the torn ones”.
The Khmer community in Soc Trang province, along with Khmer people in the southern region, are celebrating their traditional Sene Dolta festival from September 16 to 18.
Politburo member and Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh offered congratulations to Khmer Theravada Buddhist monks and followers on the traditional Chol Chnam Thmay Festival and Buddha’s birthday during a visit to Candaransi Pagoda in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, on April 26.
Khmer people in the south and the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang in particular are celebrating their traditional New Year festival Chol Chnam Thmay which falls on April 13-16 this year more quietly this year due to the COVID-19 epidemic.
Khmer ethnic communities are celebrating their traditional New Year Festival – Chol Chnam Thmay – at home this year from April 13-16 instead of visiting pagodas as part of the national effort to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.
Representatives from the Party Committee, People’s Committee, People’s Council, and Fatherland Front Committee of the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long presented gifts to Khmer people on the occasion of the ethnic minority group’s Chol Chnam Thmay (New Year) festival on April 13.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has sent a letter to the Khmer ethnic people, congratulating them on the traditional Chol Chnam Thmay (New Year) festival.
Representatives from the People’s Committee, People's Council and Fatherland Front Committee of southwestern Tay Ninh province on April 8 presented gifts to Khmer people in Tan Chau district on the occasion of the ethnic minority group’s Chol Chnam Thmay (New Year) festival.
President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Tran Thanh Man sent his “warmest greetings” and “best wishes” in a letter on April 3 to all Khmer ethnic minority people on the occasion of their traditional new year festival, Chol Chnam Thmay.
A thrill of excitement has overwhelmed the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh these days as the Khmer people are celebrating their traditional Sene Dolta festival, which falls on September 27-29 this year.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc met his Cambodian counterpart Samdech Techo Hun Sen in Beijing, China, on April 26, on the sidelines of the ongoing second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, which opened the same day.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on April 13 extended his greetings over the phone to Lao PM Thongloun Sioulith and Cambodian PM Samdech Techo Hun Sen on the occasion of the two neighbouring countries’ traditional New Year festival.
Vice President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Truong Thi Ngoc Anh visited the Mekong Delta Bac Lieu province’s Patriotic Clergy Solidarity Association on April 11, on the occasion of the Chol Chnam Thmay, the traditional New Year Festival of Khmer people in the south.
Tourist destinations in Thailand began their celebrations of the traditional New Year festival Songkran on April 11, two days ahead of the official date.
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