The Home Spring programme 2022, an annual event for Overseas Vietnamese (OVs) in the lead up to traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) celebrations is scheduled to take place on January 22.

Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England, has been freshly knighted by the Queen Elizabeth II of the UK for his contributions to the local fight against COVID-19.

Le Thanh Hieu would be just a regular IT worker in Japan were it not for finding fame cooking beautiful set meals that are barely the size of a human thumb.

Vietnamese citizens, overseas Vietnamese, and their spouses and children who have not been vaccinated or have not received enough doses of Covid-19 vaccine can get free doses of vaccine during isolation if they wish.

Deputy Prime Ministers Vu Duc Dam and Pham Binh Minh have encouraged overseas Vietnamese to return to celebrate Tet.

Flying to Cambodia and taking a long-distance bus to the border gate to enter Vietnam is now the option chosen by many overseas Vietnamese.

Since March 2020, when international flights to Vietnam were interrupted and then stopped completely because of Covid-19, Vietnamese citizens have not been able to return home unless they book ‘rescue flights’.

Vietnamese authorities and representative agencies abroad have worked closely with domestic and foreign airlines to conduct over 800 flights carrying home nearly 200,000 Vietnamese citizens from over 60 countries and territories.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has ordered relevant agencies to take prompt action to meet foreigners and overseas Vietnamese (OV)’s demand for coming to Vietnam.

While aircraft are lying idle, Vietnamese in many countries have had to spend huge amounts of money to return to Vietnam.

Professor Dr. Phan Van Ngan, a famous scientist in oceanography, is well-known among the Vietnamese community in Brazil.

The Fine Arts Museum of Da Nang has received a collection of original comics paintings donated by Vietnamese-Belgian Nguyen Vinh Khoa, or Vink, who has been living in Liège, Belgium since 1969. 

Nguyen Thuy Quynh, a Vietnamese lecturer at RMIT University in Australia has been named in The Australian’s 2021 Research magazine as Australia’s top researcher in composite materials.

Millions of overseas Vietnamese want to fly to Vietnam to celebrate Tet but international commercial flights have not resumed and few “rescue” flights exist.

As many as 100 intellectuals and experts from 15 countries will work together to find approaches and solutions to build a globally connected, sustainable Vietnam.

Despite love for math, there was a time when she had no intention of earning a PhD in mathematics. She pursued a career in applied mathematics to answer her own questions.

Vietnamese-origin Professor Le Thi Hoai An has received the Constantin Caratheodory Prize and has been appointed a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF).

The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry’s State Commission for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs (SCOV) launched its portal at https://scov.gov.vn at an online ceremony held in Hanoi on October 23.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son on October 8 handed over VND3 billion donated by Vietnamese expatriates abroad to the Vietnam Fatherland Front to support the National COVID-19 Vaccine Fund and the ongoing fight against the virus.

Vietnamese-Belgian artist Thy Nguyen Truong Minh opened his solo exhibition in Brussels on October 4, displaying artworks depicting life in Vietnam.