
The French Academy has announced that an overseas Vietnamese, Prof Trinh Xuan Thuan, is a winner of the Cino Del Duca World Prize 2012, a major international literary award in France. The award was to honour this astronomer for his great efforts to disseminate scientific knowledge for mankind. This award brought Professor Thuan a €300,000 [...]
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A Vietnamese national living in Russia’s Sverdlovsk province has presented VND100 million (nearly US$5,000) to support soldiers and local people on Truong Sa islands. Hoang Van Vinh, president of the Vietnamese community in Sverdlovsk, handed over the sum to a representative of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs at a ceremony in Hanoi [...]
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Construction of a multi-functional housing complex for overseas Vietnamese in the Cambodian province of Siem Reap began on May 7. The facility is built on an area of nearly 1,800m2 to provide education, healthcare and meeting services for Vietnamese nationals living and working in Siem Reap and Tonle Sap Lake. Vietnamese students at the [...]
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After many years living abroad, Thuy Van and Tuan Hung, famous dancers of the community of overseas Vietnamese, will organize their first show in Vietnam at Tieng Xua night club, HCM City. The couple has lived overseas for over 20 years. They sometimes returned home but they have never performed on any stage in Vietnam. [...]
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The Sao Mai School, established in Berlin in 2007, regularly holds Vietnamese language courses for the Vietnamese generations who were born and grew up in the Federal Republic of Germany. Managed by three teachers, the school now has 60 pupils divided into four classes taught on Sundays. One of the teachers, Nguyen Thanh Tam, used [...]
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More than 20 watercolor paintings and 30 photographs illustrating the 36 old streets and guilds of Hanoi are on display at the Vietnam Culture Centre in Paris from April 14-May 4. These works were produced by Vuong Pat Cam, an overseas Vietnamese, who was born in Laos, but went to France to study and has [...]
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Over the past five years, a charitable organization of Vietnamese students in Tomsk, Russia has been active in a wide range of activities to raise funds for charitable work. All the money has been donated to poor people in Vietnam and orphans in Tomsk. On April 1, the organization cooked and sold pho (noodle soup) [...]
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A music show to commemorate the 11th death anniversary of famous Vietnamese musician Trinh Cong Son (April 1) was held by the Vietnam Literature and Arts Association (VLAA) in Russia on March 31. The show drew nearly 100 Trinh Cong Son fans, including staff from the Vietnamese embassy, representatives from Vietnamese associations, students and people [...]
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There is a Vietnamese school on a floating wooden raft of only 70 square metres, in Tonle Sap Lake in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, where Vietnamese poor children are taught. The school was built in 1997 with the assistance of the Vietnamese Consulate General in Siem Reap and the enthusiastic support of organizations and benefactors. [...]
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A meeting to promote cooperation between the Vietnam Association of Science and Experts in France (AVSE) with concerned agencies at home has been organised in Paris. Hosted by AVSE, an organisation of Vietnamese intellectuals, the meeting summarised the association’s activities in 2011 and discussed several plans for activities this year. It also reviewed the working [...]
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