On January 22, the Embassy in Kuala Lumpur hosteda gathering for Vietnamese people living in Malaysia, during which AmbassadorTran Viet Thai extended Tet greetings to the Vietnamese community.
He praised outstanding Vietnamese role models who have madegreat contributions to the community last year.
In a similar event in Algiers, Ambassador Nguyen Thanh Vinh said overseas Vietnamese people remain an inseparablepart of the country. He highly spoke of the Vietnamese expats’ contributions tothe homeland and valued their mutual support for each other during thepandemic.
Another get-together was held by the Embassy of Vietnam in Slovakiain the capital city of Bratislava on the same day, which gathered a largenumber of Vietnamese expats and associations in the European country.
In his opening remarks, Ambassador Nguyen Tuan thanked the Vietnamesecommunity for helping reinforcing the friendship between the two countries anddeveloping Vietnam.
Meanwhile, Ambassador to the UK Nguyen Hoang Long attended awarm Tet gathering held for the first time by the Vietnamese Society in Oxford,bringing together Vietnamese students and PhD candidates as well as professorsand lecturers from the University of Oxford.
Long said he expects the partnership in education andtraining between Vietnam and the University of Oxford will grow further,particularly in research./.