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Overseas Vietnamese across continents welcome Year of the Pig

Vietnamese communities over the world are organising celebrations of the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet), the most important festival in a year for Vietnamese.
Overseas Vietnamese across continents welcome Year of the Pig ảnh 1Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Ha Kim Ngoc and his spouse in a performance at the embassy's Tet celebration event in Washington DC (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) –Vietnamese communities all over the world are organising celebrations of thetraditional Lunar New Year (Tet), the most important festival in a year for Vietnamese.

The Vietnamese Embassy inVientiane, Laos, in coordination with the local Vietnamese association, hosted agathering to welcome the arrival of the Year of the Pig on January 27.

Ambassador Nguyen Ba Hung tookthe occasion to highlight the development of the Vietnam-Laos specialsolidarity and comprehensive cooperation in 2018, particularly the positivegrowth of economic ties, with two-way trade increasing by 14 percent year onyear to more than 1 billion USD.

The ambassador affirmed that theembassy and other Vietnamese representative agencies in Laos are always readyto support the overseas Vietnamese.

In Germany, the Tet gathering,held on January 26 by the Vietnamese Embassy at the headquarters of the BerlinState’s Ministry of the Interior, was attended by 500 guests, includingrepresentatives from the German federal parliament and the Federal ForeignOffice, and diplomats from ASEAN countries’ diplomatic missions in Germany.

In his speech, Ambassador NguyenMinh Vu informed the guests and the overseas Vietnamese on Vietnam’s impressivesocio-economic achievement in 2018, to which the overseas Vietnamese community hadmade significant contributions.  

The event featured Vietnamesemusic performances and traditional Tet activities such as wrapping Chung cakeand calligraphy. Visitors also enjoyed Vietnamese dishes and had a chance tobuy Tet goods.

In the US, a Tet celebrationtook place at the Vietnam House in Washington DC on January 25 with the attendanceof around 200 Vietnamese and US friends.   

Ambassador Ha Kim Ngoc talkedabout the sacred meaning of the traditional Tet for Vietnamese, and made abrief overview of Vietnam-US ties in 2018.

The diplomat urged the overseasVietnamese to continue contributing to the development of the motherland and workingto promote bilateral ties.-VNA  
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