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Da Nang (VNA) – Authorities of the central city of Da Nang held a gathering on January 17 with overseas Vietnamese (OVs) who returned to the homeland to welcome the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival. Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Ho Ky Minh offered the best wishes to the OVs and affirmed that Da Nang always creates the best possible conditions for them to return to visit their families, make investment and do business so as to boost the city’s development. Highlighting the city’s socio-economic achievements in 2019, he emphasised that over the past years, many expatriates who are entrepreneurs, experts and intellectuals have greatly supported Da Nang in foreign investment attraction, health care, culture, sports and humanitarian assistance. Last year, the flow of remittances to Da Nang reached 170 million USD, which has contributed to the city’s development, Minh added. On behalf of the OVs, Bao Hoa, an expatriate in the US, thanked the … [Read more...] about Da Nang welcomes overseas Vietnamese home for Tet

Nha Trang in central Khanh Hoa Province is home to long sandy beaches and little-known islands, while UNESCO heritage site Hoi An is home to An Bang beach, which was voted among the most beautiful beaches in Asia by TripAdvisor last year, and Cua Dai Beach.  … [Read more...] about Vietnamese travelers splash out on beach getaways

Phnom Penh (VNA) – 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. Prominent among around 600 guests at the event were Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and Deputy PM Men Sam An. In his remarks, Vietnamese Ambassador Vu Quang Minh laid stress on the big strides of the Vietnam-Cambodia traditional collaboration across the fields of economy, defence-security, culture-education and people-to-people exchange. Highlight of the cooperation must be the economic-trade relations, with two-way trade reaching 5.26 billion USD, up 11.9 percent from the previous year, he said, adding Vietnam’s investments in Cambodia in agriculture, banking, telecommunications-IT, industrial production and processing-manufacturing, among others, have contributed greatly to social welfare and economic development in the host nation. Addressing the … [Read more...] about Vietnamese expats in Cambodia gather for Tet celebrations

Bac Ninh (VNA) – A delegation of over 100 overseas Vietnamese (OVs) offered incense to Kings of the Ly Dynasty at the Do temple in Tu Son township, the northern province of Bac Ninh on January 18, as part of the “Homeland Spring 2020” programme. Following the incense offering ceremony, the provincial authorities held a meeting with the delegation.   Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Van Phong briefed the guests about the local socio-economic development, saying that Bac Ninh is home to over 1,500 relic sites, including four special national relics, namely Do temple in Tu Son township, Phat Tich pagoda in Tien Du district, But Thap and Dau pagodas in Thuan Thanh district. It also houses eight national treasures, three intangible cultural heritages of humanity, including Quan Ho Bac Ninh (love duet singing), Ca tru (ceremonial singing), tugging rituals and games, he said. The province is preparing a dossier to submit to the … [Read more...] about Overseas Vietnamese pay tribute to Ly Kings in Bac Ninh

London (VNA) - A Vietnamese man described by authorities in Europe as a major people smuggler has been arrested in the United Kingdom. Khanh Chan, 39, also known by the name of Nguyen Ngoc Khanh, was part of an international trafficking network, actively smuggling people from Vietnam to Europe between 2015 and 2017. In September last year, Khanh was jailed for eight years in his absence by a court in Paris after he was convicted of people smuggling. He was initially thought to be hiding in London, but investigators from the National Crime Agency (NCA) working with the French authorities tracked him down to an address in Bexhill-on-Sea on the south coast of England. A European arrest warrant was issued and Khanh was taken into custody. Legal proceedings have begun to extradite him to France to serve his sentence. NCA head of organised immigration crime operations, Steve Reynolds, said: “We believe Chan was a significant player in an organised crime group responsible for … [Read more...] about Vietnamese people trafficker arrested in UK