OVs worldwide welcome traditional Tet
VOV.VN - Overseas Vietnamese throughout the world are celebrating the lunar New Year festival (Tet) with a broad array of cultural activities.
The Vietnam Embassy in Laos has hold a ceremony in Vientiane for overseas Vietnamese to welcome the lunar New Year. Participants enjoyed traditional Vietnamese cuisine and art performances.
Nguyen Thi Nuong, a Vietnamese Laotian said, "We are happy and grateful to the Embassy for organizing such a meaningful event for us to turn our hearts and souls to the fatherland as Tet approaches and teach our younger generations about their origins."
300 overseas Vietnamese, businesses, students, and international friends attended a ceremony held by the Vietnamese Embassy in the UK on January 31 to celebrate lunar New Year 2016.
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Ambassador Nguyen Van Thao briefed participants on Vietnam’s major achievements in 2015. He asked overseas Vietnamese and Vietnamese students studying in the UK to stay united and do their best in their life and work to contribute to Vietnam-UK relations and promote Vietnam’s image abroad.
A get-together was held for overseas Vietnamese at the Vietnam Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia celebrating the lunar New Year holiday season. Ambassador Hoang Anh Tuan said Vietnamese people at home and abroad are welcoming lunar New Year 2016 with the success of the just concluded 12th National Party Congress.
Meanwhile Vietnamese people in China’s Hong Kong and Macau shared the Tet joy at a celebration in Hong Kong under the host of the Vietnamese Consulate General.
Similar events were also held at the Vietnam Embassies in Singapore and Italy. A program called “Supporting Truong Sa” was launched at the ceremony in Singapore to encourage overseas Vietnamese people to support soldiers stationed on the archipelago both spiritually and physically.