VOV.VN - Overseas Vietnamese (OV) residing in Japan have sent numerous wishes to Vietnamese athletes through hand-written letters in an effort to encourage the competitors to clinch victory at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

The Ho Chi Minh City Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (OV) Affairs has called on the Vietnamese community abroad to join hands with the city in controlling COVID-19 pandemic.

The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has decided to bestow the city’s badge to seven overseas Vietnamese in recognition of their considerable contributions to local development.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Thailand held a ceremony on July 11 to receive nearly THB1.5 million (US$46,100) donated by the Vietnamese community in the country to Vietnam’s national COVID-19 vaccine fund.

Oversea remittances to Ho Chi Minh City were worth US$3.2 billion in the first six months of this year, despite the COVID-19 pandemic roiling on many economies around the world.

VOV.VN - United Overseas Bank (UOB) of Singapore has maintained its forecast that the Vietnamese economy will expand by 6.7% over the course of the year 2021.

The Hong Bang International University (HIU) has signed a strategic co-operation deal with India’s Aieraa Overseas Studies to train Indian and other Asian students in medicine starting in 2021-2022.

Overseas investment by Vietnamese firms neared US$547 million in the first half of 2021, rising close to 2.5 folds against the same period last year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

The Foreign Ministry's State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs on June 23 held a virtual meeting to connect the Vietnam Private Business Association (VPBA) and the Vietnam - Europe international business association to the union of Vietnamese business associations in Europe.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese investors poured a total of US$21.81 billion into 1,420 valid projects abroad during the opening five months of the year, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.